Food Industry
Supply chains, corporate accountability, food policy, economics, and the business forces shaping what ends up on your plate.
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Raw Milk Is 150x More Likely to Make You Sick — So Why Are Sales Surging?
Raw milk sales have surged 300% despite CDC warnings about bacterial contamination. Explore both sides of the raw milk trend — the claimed probiotic benefits, the real infection risks, and why this debate is more political than scientific.
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The GLP-1 Effect: How Ozempic Is Rewriting the Entire Food Industry
The global food industry is worth $8 trillion — and GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic are forcing it to restructure. With 23% of U.S. households on these medications, grocery spending is dropping 5.3%, snack sales are cratering, and every major food company is scrambling to adapt.
More on the business of food
This is a young corner of the site. These articles sit in other pillars but are the same story — money, incentives, and who decides what ends up on your plate.
- Why plant-based meat is failing — a $10B company, a $4M sale, and a strategy that was wrong from the start.
- Food engineered to be impossible to resist — 58% of American calories, designed in a lab.
- The seed oil debate — what the science actually says, minus the internet.
- Walmart tracks lettuce in 2 seconds — traceability, recalls, and food fraud.
- How to make money urban farming — the small end of the same industry, with real numbers.
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