There are no national quality standards for the meat and seafood served in the National School Lunch Program. Products made with routine antibiotics and fillers can still end up on children's trays across the country. ButcherBox, Perdue Farms, Little Sesame and others are working together to improve the quality of protein served in school meals.

Diane Wilson, 78, is on a hunger strike outside Dow's Seadrift Operations complex on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Her organization won a $50 million settlement from a Taiwanese petrochemical plant in 2019, the largest award in a citizen lawsuit against a polluter.

Gonzalo Samaranch is the founder of Mestiza de Indias, a regenerative agriculture initiative promoted together with his wife of Mayan origin, Martha Elena Chan Tuz, who is based in the jungle of the Yucatan Peninsula. The project protects 200 hectares of rainforest and has revitalized five of them. The products are offered to hotels and restaurants in the region.

According to food safety experts, prewashed bagged greens aren't the safest choice. Bacteria and contamination are more common than you may suspect in this particular grocery item. Leafy greens are linked to up to 9.2% of foodborne illnesses in the U.S.

Andrew Rypel's childhood memories of fishing with his father in a lake in northern Wisconsin is gone. The lake was walled off from the public and now only accessible to lakefront property owners. People want to lay claim over nature because they want to make money from it.

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The rising cost of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) has hit street food vendors in the Philippines hard. Eric Garcia, 20, had to raise the price of his pares stew to 65 pesos (US$1.08) because of the increase in LPG prices. Ronilo Titom has run a kerbside canteen that caters to call centre workers and jeepney drivers for two years. His customers are buying from other stalls.

The conflict between al-Burhan and Hemeti in Sudan is reshaping the global market for acacia sap, an ingredient essential to soft drinks and confectionary. Millions of families depend on the acacia tree for their livelihood in the savannahs of Kordofan and Darfur. Acacia sap is processed into a fine white powder and ends up in Coca-Cola, M&Ms or cigarette paper.