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2 stories tagged "food-policy"

Nutrition & Food

The thin trial behind England's next supermarket-layout mandate

A non-randomized trial of 36 English discount stores produced a moment-of-implementation bump in produce sales that lost statistical significance by three months, and a household-purchasing signal that never landed. The authors' immediate call for a national layout mandate is the louder finding.

Investigations

The Crunchy Mom and the MAHA Mom Were Fighting the Same War. The Pesticide Lobby Won Anyway.

For one strange year, the EWG hiking-boots crowd and the MAHA red-hat moms were fighting the same pesticide war. Then Trump invoked the Defense Production Act on behalf of Bayer, the final MAHA report quietly stopped mentioning glyphosate, and a coalition that was actually winning got stomped by a C