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USDA inspectors found mold, insects, and "meat buildup" in the Boar's Head facility in Virginia, which was linked to a listeria outbreak.

The Conditions Were Repulsive at the Boar’s Head Factory Linked to Multiple Deaths

By Frank Landymore

The synthetic "butter" not only tastes like the stuff, it's calorically dense and is made out of the very gas killing our planet, too.

All-American Startup Making “Butter” From Carbon in our Atmosphere

By Frank Landymore

With dwindling funds and a hostile political climate, SCiFi Foods, a San Francisco-based lab grown meat startup, has abruptly shut down.

Fake Meat Startup Shuts Down Without Selling a Single Fake Meat to a Restaurant or Grocery Store

By Frank Landymore

A study found that practitioners of intermittent fasting who fasted for at least 16 hours a day had a higher risk of dying from heart disease

Intermittent Fasting Linked to Vastly Increased Chance of Heart Attack and Stroke

By Frank Landymore

A ton of the ultraprocessed foods we eat were created via "pre-digestion" — which makes it all the less filling, and all the more addictive.

Experts Warn That the Food You’re Eating May Have Been “Pre-Digested”

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Consumer Reports investigation has found a plastic ingredient known as phthalate at worrying high levels in supermarket and fast food items.

Scientists Found Hazardous Phthalates in Almost Every Food They Tested

By Frank Landymore

Uber Eats Mocked for Grotesque AI-Generated Food Pictures on Menu

Uber Eats Mocked for Grotesque AI-Generated Food Pictures on Menu

By Jon Christian

You can now purchase an NFT of Starbucks' famous pumpkin spice latte, though of course, you won't be able to taste it.

Starbucks Is Now Selling Pumpkin Spice NFTs

By Noor Al-Sibai

As Ozempic and Wegovy continue to rush off the selves, snack industry investors are concerned about its appetite suppressing qualities.

Snack Food Investors Concerned About the Rise of Semaglutide

By Noor Al-Sibai

Upside Foods and Good Meats received a grant of inspection from the USDA, allowing their lab grown meat products to be sold to consumers.

Science & Energy

First Lab Grown Meat Products Approved for Sale in US

By Frank Landymore

The FDA just gave the OK for a new genetically-modified pig sausage to enter the food supply. Gene-hacked sausages for all!

FDA Approves Gene-Hacked Sausages

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

McDonald's customers on TikTok are sharing their horrendous experiences with the company's half-baked AI drive-thru chatbots.

Artificial Intelligence

McDonald’s Drive-Thru AI Giving Customers Hilariously Wrong Orders

By Victor Tangermann

John Wenz ate chicken meat grown in a lab, courageously admitting that it gave him gas. But it does taste like chicken, at least.

Journalist Eats Lab-Grown Chicken, Gets “Weirdly Gassy”

By Frank Landymore

A suit filed against Mars Inc, on Thursday claims the company doesn't inform customers that Skittles contains titanium dioxide, which could be toxic.

Please No! Lawsuit Claims Toxic Ingredient in Delicious Skittles

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Health officials in France are saying that the preservative nitrates often added to processed meat — including charcuterie — are linked to colon cancer.

Doctors Warn That Scrumptious Instagram Trend Is Giving You Colon Cancer

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Digital grifters are holding a number of restaurants hostage with terrible Google ratings, asking for digital gift cards in exchange for deleting the posts.

Scammers Leaving 1-Star Reviews, Charging to Get Them Taken Down

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Doctors published a study in the European Heart Journal that found people who add salt to their food are more likely to die a premature death.

Salting Your Food Can Kill You Faster, Doctors Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists at UC Riverside and the University of Delaware say they convinced food-bearing plants to grow in total darkness with acetate.

Science & Energy

Scientists Invent Way to Grow Plants in Complete Darkness

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Chinese scientists are reported to have developed a fully-automated, pig-cloning robot, and the AI-powered bot is apparently way more efficient than humans.

China Now Producing Cloned Pigs Using Only Robots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Good Meat announced it'll build ten 250,000-liter bioreactors that it claims could make 30 million pounds of lab grown, no kill meat in the US.

Huge Facility to Produce 15,000 Tons of Lab Grown Meat Per Year in the US

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Lab-grown meat company Primeval Foods is planning to bring a whole host of exotic meats to the market, including zebra, lion, elephant, and tiger.

Science & Energy

Startup Says It’s About to Start Selling Lab-Grown Tiger Steaks to Restaurants

By Victor Tangermann

Despite declining global shark populations the meat is winding up in pet food, according to a new study in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science.

DNA Test Finds Endangered Species in Cat and Dog Food

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A study by Harvard and other researchers found images of feet and hearts with disease got parents to buy less sugar for kids by way of drinks and snacks.

Experts Propose Slapping Photos of Diseased Organs on Sugary Drinks

By Lonnie Lee Hood

This just in: you're not going to die if you eat the stickers that come on your grocery store fruits and veggies!

Rejoice! The New York Times Says It’s Fine to Eat the Stickers on Vegetables

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists built a machine that simultaneously 3D prints and laser-cooks chicken, hinting at a new way to rapidly procure meals.

New Tech Cooks and 3D Prints Chicken Simultaneously

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists inserted a human gene responsible for fat production into potato plants to grow more food without taking up more space.

Scientists Add Human Fat Gene Into Potatoes to Make Them Grow Huge

By Dan Robitzski

New tech can convert plastic garbage into safe, edible protein, potentially giving us an answer to the mountains of trash choking the planet.

New Tech Turns Plastic Waste Into Food

By Dan Robitzski

After Subway was sued for allegedly lying about its tuna sandwiches, a NYT reporter decided to buy some of the meat and test its DNA.

Science & Energy

DNA Test Fails to Find Any Tuna in Subway Tuna Sandwiches

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla Files Patent for Burger Chain at Supercharger Locations

By Dan Robitzski

Fallout from post-World War II nuclear bomb tests is still popping up in honey today, though at low concentrations that are still safe to eat.

Science & Energy

Fallout From Nuclear Bomb Tests Is Showing Up in This Popular Food

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists suggest putting a fish farm on the Moon after discovering that seabass and meagre eggs could survive the rough journey.

Scientists Suggest Farming Fish on the Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Futurism reached out to a variety of planetary scientists to ask whether the donut looked like an accurate model of the Red Planet.

Here’s What Planetary Scientists Think of Krispy Kreme’s Mars Donut

By Jon Christian

The space company and NASA contractor Nanoracks wants to build greenhouses in space to bolster food security in the face of climate change.

NASA Contractor Signs Deal to Build Greenhouses in Earth’s Orbit

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA just approved a gene-hacked pig that was specifically engineered to not produce the allergen alpha-gal for human consumption.

FDA Approves Gene-Hacked Pigs for Human Consumption

By Dan Robitzski

An artificial chicken venture called the Chicken seems to have nailed the flavor and texture of a fried chicken sandwich using lab-grown cells.

Science & Energy

Lab-Grown Chicken Sandwich Tastes Like Real Thing, Says Person Who Ate It

By Dan Robitzski

A massive scientific review that combined the results of thousands of studies found that regularly eating chili peppers is linked to major health benefits.

Huge Meta-Study: This Food Appears to Actually Make You Live Longer

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla senior industrial designer Remy Labesque, who normally works on solar panels and EV chargers, just reinvented the chocolate chip.

Science & Energy

Tesla Designer Reinvents the Chocolate Chip

By Dan Robitzski

Finally, a lab-grown meat startup has figured out how to cultivate an approximation of bacon and pork belly out of cultured cells and plant products.

Science & Energy

Rejoice, Nerds! Lab-Grown Bacon Is Here

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists found out that the invasive weed Bidens pilosa a cheap source of enzymes that help make wine and cheese.

Scientists Made Wine and Cheese Using an Annoying Weed

By Dan Robitzski

3D Printing Food in Certain Shapes Tricks People Into Eating Less

3D Printing Food in Certain Shapes Tricks People Into Eating Less

By Dan Robitzski

Impossible Foods CEO Says he Could Create Brand-New Types of Meat

By Dan Robitzski

Not that we needed science to tell us, but: a Western diet with fatty, sugary, salty foods lousy with red meat and processed products are making us dumber.

Neuroscience and Brain

Shocker: The Western World’s Diet Is Making Everyone Scientifically Brain-Dumber

By Foster Kamer

New video shows a pair of Boston University bots in action — expertly working together to grill hot dogs and park them in rolls.

This Hot Dog Cooking Robot Is the Beginning of the End

By Jon Christian

Engineers taught an artificially intelligent robot to cook and serve hot dogs by training it in a virtual setting and then an actual grill.

Finally, a Smart Robot That Can Cook and Serve Us Hot Dogs

By Dan Robitzski

For the last six months, a highly-automated dairy farm has been floating off the coast of the Netherlands, providing city slickers with fresh milk.

35 Cows Live on a Floating Dairy Farm Staffed by Robots

By Dan Robitzski

Those "personal food computers" from the MIT Media Lab that were supposed to help refugees grow crops on the move never worked, its creator's bold claims.

MIT Researcher Lied About Feeding Refugees With “Food Computers”

By Dan Robitzski

The companies developing lab-grown meat won’t stop at just beef and chicken — they’ll likely cultivate exotic meats, too.

These Startups Want to Feed You Lab-Grown Giraffe, Elephant Meat

By Kristin Houser

California just legalized eating roadkill, but only if people sign into an app to log the crash and get meat salvage permit.

Science & Energy

California Legalizes Eating Roadkill, But Only Through an App

By Dan Robitzski

Customers using Amazon to buy food have reported receiving spoiled, expired products, and the company isn't always quick to grant a refund.

Amazon Keeps Delivering Moldy, Spoiled Food to Customers

By Kristin Houser

The company behind instant ramen packets are about to launch nutrient-rich noodles that can fully satisfy people's nutritional requirements.

Health & Medicine

Soylent-Like Ramen Packet Has Every Nutrient Needed to Survive

By Dan Robitzski

Science & Energy

Scientists Brewed Vodka With Grain From Chernobyl

By Dan Robitzski

Next year, astronauts on the International Space Station will attempt to bake cookies in space. It's part PR stunt, part lesson in zero-g manufacturing.

Science & Energy

Astronauts Are Planning to Bake Cookies on the Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese food manufacturers have deployed taste-testing robots and artificial intelligence to make sure that the food is high-quality and authentic.

Taste-Testing Robots Are Optimizing Food in China

By Dan Robitzski

The ISS is about to test a new algae bioreactor that turns carbon dioxide to food and breathable oxygen. If it works, it could allow deep space missions.

International Space Station

The ISS Now Has an “Algae Bioreactor” Generating Oxygen and Food

By Dan Robitzski

Plant-based meat startup Beyond Meat plans to launch an IPO next month, at the ambitious total valuation of $1.2 billion.

Fake Meat Startup Beyond Meat Says It’s Worth More Than $1 Billion

By Dan Robitzski

The fast-food chain Del Taco just announced a new partnership with Beyond Meats to start selling plant-based meat alternatives starting April 25.

Taco Bell Competitor Embraces Plant-Based “Meat” in its Tacos

By Dan Robitzski

A panel of scientists just recommended to the Japanese government that CRISPR-edited foods should be declared safe to eat.

Japan Poised to Declare CRISPR-Edited Foods Safe to Eat

By Dan Robitzski

A food service company in the Midwestern region of the United States is now serving a gene-edited food in its restaurants.

The First Gene-Edited Food Has Reached US Restaurants

By Kristin Houser

This Autonomous Robot Arm Feeds People Who Can’t Feed Themselves

This Autonomous Robot Arm Feeds People Who Can’t Feed Themselves

By Kristin Houser

A genetically modified salmon swims next to a normal salmon of the same age.

Science & Energy

FDA Allows Genetically Modified Salmon Imports in the US

IBM and food developer McCormick & Co developed a new AI platform that can create new foods better and faster than human experts.

AI Trained on Decades of Food Research Is Making Brand-New Foods

By Dan Robitzski

A new FDA-approved food coating can double a vegetable's shelf life. It may help reduce the $2 trillion cost and carbon emissions of food waste.

Edible Coating Can Keep Food Fresh Longer and Cut Down on Waste

By Dan Robitzski

An AI created by Stanford transformed typical Christmas leftovers into new recipes, which the BBC then cooked up and tasted so you don't have to.

Artificial Intelligence

AIs Whip Christmas Leftovers Into Loathsome New Recipes

By Kristin Houser

Arm-A-Dine is a robot arm that picks up food and feeds it to whichever human looks happiest. If you want dinner, you'll have to smile for the camera.

Prosthetics and Devices

A Wearable Robot Arm Makes You Work for Thanksgiving Leftovers

By Dan Robitzski