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ETN 288: Adverse
Those Lancet UPF papers, the cost of lying about beef, and the much misunderstood tonka bean. It isn't often that the US is more cautious on food safety than the EU, but the tonka bean's coumarin is one exception.
#food #nutrition #newsletter
Those Lancet UPF papers, the cost of lying about beef, and the much misunderstood tonka bean. It isn't often that the US is more cautious on food safety than the EU, but the tonka bean's coumarin is one exception.
#food #nutrition #newsletter
Eat This Newsletter 288: Adverse
Hello If a study of foods and health suggests “adverse outcomes across nearly all organ systems” I’d want to minimise those foods. On the other hand, banning...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
ETN 288: Adverse
Those Lancet UPF papers, the cost of lying about beef, and the much misunderstood tonka bean. It isn't often that the US is more cautious on food safety than the EU, but the tonka bean's coumarin is one exception.
#food #nutrition #newsletter
Those Lancet UPF papers, the cost of lying about beef, and the much misunderstood tonka bean. It isn't often that the US is more cautious on food safety than the EU, but the tonka bean's coumarin is one exception.
#food #nutrition #newsletter
It’s too nice an afternoon to spend indoors finishing up tomorrow’s Eat This Newsletter, but someone has to examine a case in which US food safety regulation is more stringent than the EU’s.
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#newsletter #FoodSafety
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#newsletter #FoodSafety
November 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It’s too nice an afternoon to spend indoors finishing up tomorrow’s Eat This Newsletter, but someone has to examine a case in which US food safety regulation is more stringent than the EU’s.
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#newsletter #FoodSafety
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#newsletter #FoodSafety
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Großartiges Eintauchen in eine Mini-Nische der Forschung:
Haben Menschen aktiv und bewusst die wilden Getreidepflanzen zu immer wertvolleren Nahrungsquellen selektiert oder wurde durch ihr Verhalten eine eh vorhandene Tendenz der pflanzlichen Entwicklung unabsichtlich gefördert?
#NerdsAtWork
Haben Menschen aktiv und bewusst die wilden Getreidepflanzen zu immer wertvolleren Nahrungsquellen selektiert oder wurde durch ihr Verhalten eine eh vorhandene Tendenz der pflanzlichen Entwicklung unabsichtlich gefördert?
#NerdsAtWork
A Fresh Look at Domestication
According to Robert Spengler, it wasn’t human selection that turned grass into wheat, or wolves into dogs. Domestication just happened in response to changes in the environment.
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#podcast #agriculture #archaeology
According to Robert Spengler, it wasn’t human selection that turned grass into wheat, or wolves into dogs. Domestication just happened in response to changes in the environment.
eatthispodcast.com/domestication
#podcast #agriculture #archaeology
November 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Großartiges Eintauchen in eine Mini-Nische der Forschung:
Haben Menschen aktiv und bewusst die wilden Getreidepflanzen zu immer wertvolleren Nahrungsquellen selektiert oder wurde durch ihr Verhalten eine eh vorhandene Tendenz der pflanzlichen Entwicklung unabsichtlich gefördert?
#NerdsAtWork
Haben Menschen aktiv und bewusst die wilden Getreidepflanzen zu immer wertvolleren Nahrungsquellen selektiert oder wurde durch ihr Verhalten eine eh vorhandene Tendenz der pflanzlichen Entwicklung unabsichtlich gefördert?
#NerdsAtWork
Your own website>? (I'll see myself out.)
November 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Your own website>? (I'll see myself out.)
A Fresh Look at Domestication
According to Robert Spengler, it wasn’t human selection that turned grass into wheat, or wolves into dogs. Domestication just happened in response to changes in the environment.
eatthispodcast.com/domestication
#podcast #agriculture #archaeology
According to Robert Spengler, it wasn’t human selection that turned grass into wheat, or wolves into dogs. Domestication just happened in response to changes in the environment.
eatthispodcast.com/domestication
#podcast #agriculture #archaeology
November 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A Fresh Look at Domestication
According to Robert Spengler, it wasn’t human selection that turned grass into wheat, or wolves into dogs. Domestication just happened in response to changes in the environment.
eatthispodcast.com/domestication
#podcast #agriculture #archaeology
According to Robert Spengler, it wasn’t human selection that turned grass into wheat, or wolves into dogs. Domestication just happened in response to changes in the environment.
eatthispodcast.com/domestication
#podcast #agriculture #archaeology
More, from Marion Nestle, on the ByHeart baby botulism problem.
foodpolitics.com/2025/11/not-s…
Seeing the company wriggle and say that the Clostridium found in a sample could have come from elsewhere tells me all I need to know.
#newslettere#food_safetyty
foodpolitics.com/2025/11/not-s…
Seeing the company wriggle and say that the Clostridium found in a sample could have come from elsewhere tells me all I need to know.
#newslettere#food_safetyty
https://foodpolitics.com/2025/11/not-s…
November 13, 2025 at 8:09 AM
More, from Marion Nestle, on the ByHeart baby botulism problem.
foodpolitics.com/2025/11/not-s…
Seeing the company wriggle and say that the Clostridium found in a sample could have come from elsewhere tells me all I need to know.
#newslettere#food_safetyty
foodpolitics.com/2025/11/not-s…
Seeing the company wriggle and say that the Clostridium found in a sample could have come from elsewhere tells me all I need to know.
#newslettere#food_safetyty
Not a headline I expected to read in 2025. 1925, maybe.
November 12, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Not a headline I expected to read in 2025. 1925, maybe.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Want to stay up to date on food & nutrition science, politics and culture? Check out The Food Archive and subscribe on the upper right side of the home page: www.thenutritionarchive.com
Spawn of Satan, get thee behind me.
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Spawn of Satan, get thee behind me.
New episode: Revolutions are Born in Breadlines.
Maria Fedorova’s new book looks at how the Volga famine of 1920 catalyzed exchanges of food aid, technology, and agricultural ideas. Humanitarian, yes, and also deeply political.
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#podcast #agriculture #history
Maria Fedorova’s new book looks at how the Volga famine of 1920 catalyzed exchanges of food aid, technology, and agricultural ideas. Humanitarian, yes, and also deeply political.
eatthispodcast.com/usa-ussr
#podcast #agriculture #history
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
New episode: Revolutions are Born in Breadlines.
Maria Fedorova’s new book looks at how the Volga famine of 1920 catalyzed exchanges of food aid, technology, and agricultural ideas. Humanitarian, yes, and also deeply political.
eatthispodcast.com/usa-ussr
#podcast #agriculture #history
Maria Fedorova’s new book looks at how the Volga famine of 1920 catalyzed exchanges of food aid, technology, and agricultural ideas. Humanitarian, yes, and also deeply political.
eatthispodcast.com/usa-ussr
#podcast #agriculture #history
Rebecca Earle warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
Professor Rebecca Earle
Professor Rebecca Earle - Department of History
warwick.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Rebecca Earle warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
Pitchforks! Now!
October 29, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Pitchforks! Now!
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Results important because lots of attention is going into this issue (1700 studies!), and this overview strongly suggests there's no strong data on whether food-packaging microplastics are important, and we shld devote attention and effort to issues we know are important (e.g., nitrogen pollution).
October 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Results important because lots of attention is going into this issue (1700 studies!), and this overview strongly suggests there's no strong data on whether food-packaging microplastics are important, and we shld devote attention and effort to issues we know are important (e.g., nitrogen pollution).
Eat This Newsletter 286: Cravings
The people who need a healthy diet most can’t afford one, while the people who can easily afford it don’t seem to want it.
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#food #newsletter #nutrition
The people who need a healthy diet most can’t afford one, while the people who can easily afford it don’t seem to want it.
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#food #newsletter #nutrition
October 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Eat This Newsletter 286: Cravings
The people who need a healthy diet most can’t afford one, while the people who can easily afford it don’t seem to want it.
buttondown.com/jeremycherfa...
#food #newsletter #nutrition
The people who need a healthy diet most can’t afford one, while the people who can easily afford it don’t seem to want it.
buttondown.com/jeremycherfa...
#food #newsletter #nutrition
Eat This Newsletter 286: Cravings
Cruising the internet highway seeking nutritious alternatives to slop.
This week, unaffordable healthy diets, undesirable healthy diets, truck stops, forest gardens, and gluten.
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#food #newsletters #nutrition
Cruising the internet highway seeking nutritious alternatives to slop.
This week, unaffordable healthy diets, undesirable healthy diets, truck stops, forest gardens, and gluten.
buttondown.com/jeremycherfa...
#food #newsletters #nutrition
October 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Eat This Newsletter 286: Cravings
Cruising the internet highway seeking nutritious alternatives to slop.
This week, unaffordable healthy diets, undesirable healthy diets, truck stops, forest gardens, and gluten.
buttondown.com/jeremycherfa...
#food #newsletters #nutrition
Cruising the internet highway seeking nutritious alternatives to slop.
This week, unaffordable healthy diets, undesirable healthy diets, truck stops, forest gardens, and gluten.
buttondown.com/jeremycherfa...
#food #newsletters #nutrition
”We’re talking about 1 in 8 American households and something like 12 percent of all grocery sales in the U.S. ... It’s like watching the worst game of chicken ever, and it’s not clear Democrats or Republicans really realize just how much is at stake.”
Why aren't people sharpening their pitchforks?
Why aren't people sharpening their pitchforks?
Tens of millions of Americans are about to lose their grocery benefits as Washington remains locked in a shutdown fight. This is really bad.
foodfix.co/the-shutdown...
foodfix.co/the-shutdown...
The shutdown debacle enters its SNAP era — and it’s about to get ugly
Tens of millions of Americans are about to lose their grocery benefits as Washington remains locked in a shutdown fight. This is really bad.
foodfix.co
October 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
”We’re talking about 1 in 8 American households and something like 12 percent of all grocery sales in the U.S. ... It’s like watching the worst game of chicken ever, and it’s not clear Democrats or Republicans really realize just how much is at stake.”
Why aren't people sharpening their pitchforks?
Why aren't people sharpening their pitchforks?
Good to know. Thank you.
October 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Good to know. Thank you.
<Coughs politely>
October 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
<Coughs politely>
Are those the little known giraffe snakes?
October 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Are those the little known giraffe snakes?
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Nibbles: Millennium #Seed Bank 25th, NPGS, Maize germplasm, Breadfruit genebank, Banana #genebank – Agricultural #Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/10/nibb...
Nibbles: Millennium Seed Bank 25th, NPGS, Maize germplasm, Breadfruit genebank, Banana genebank
King Charles III talks about seeds with Dr Elinor Breman of Kew's Millennium Seed Bank and... ...Cate Blanchett. Or read about it in The Economist. The seed banks of the National Plant Germplasm Syste...
agro.biodiver.se
October 21, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Nibbles: Millennium #Seed Bank 25th, NPGS, Maize germplasm, Breadfruit genebank, Banana #genebank – Agricultural #Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/10/nibb...
In 2008, staff at a Chinese takeaway in Dublin cooked themselves up a special treat after hours. One thing led to another and today you can find something similar not only across Ireland but around the world, as I learned from @gastroirl.bsky.social
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#food #Ireland
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#food #Ireland
October 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
In 2008, staff at a Chinese takeaway in Dublin cooked themselves up a special treat after hours. One thing led to another and today you can find something similar not only across Ireland but around the world, as I learned from @gastroirl.bsky.social
eatthispodcast.com/spice-bag
#food #Ireland
eatthispodcast.com/spice-bag
#food #Ireland
An excellent counterexample to Betteridge's Law, which states that any question in a headline can be answered No.
October 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
An excellent counterexample to Betteridge's Law, which states that any question in a headline can be answered No.
Eat This Newsletter 285: Antsy
The new EAT-Lancet report “allows two servings of animal-source foods per day—drawn from fish, yogurt, milk, cheese, or meat”. What if the yoghurt contains ants? One serving, or two?
The new EAT-Lancet report “allows two servings of animal-source foods per day—drawn from fish, yogurt, milk, cheese, or meat”. What if the yoghurt contains ants? One serving, or two?
October 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Eat This Newsletter 285: Antsy
The new EAT-Lancet report “allows two servings of animal-source foods per day—drawn from fish, yogurt, milk, cheese, or meat”. What if the yoghurt contains ants? One serving, or two?
The new EAT-Lancet report “allows two servings of animal-source foods per day—drawn from fish, yogurt, milk, cheese, or meat”. What if the yoghurt contains ants? One serving, or two?
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Brainfood: Data edition...
Biodiversity intactness, Landuse change, Drought stress, Crop suitability, Yield variance, Phenotypic data
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
agro.biodiver.se/2025/10/brai...
Biodiversity intactness, Landuse change, Drought stress, Crop suitability, Yield variance, Phenotypic data
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
agro.biodiver.se/2025/10/brai...
Brainfood: Biodiversity intactness, Landuse change, Drought stress, Crop suitability, Yield variance, Phenotypic data
Consistent global dataset on biodiversity intactness footprint of agricultural production from 2000 to 2020. Spatial dataset shows how global consumption drives ecological degradation. Rapid monitorin...
agro.biodiver.se
October 13, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Brainfood: Data edition...
Biodiversity intactness, Landuse change, Drought stress, Crop suitability, Yield variance, Phenotypic data
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
agro.biodiver.se/2025/10/brai...
Biodiversity intactness, Landuse change, Drought stress, Crop suitability, Yield variance, Phenotypic data
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
agro.biodiver.se/2025/10/brai...