Good News About Food

Celebrating innovative ways that we're ensuring equitable access to food — and ways that food is being used for good

A screenshot of Roblox's "Mission Hunger" where a player serves meals to other characters in a community kitchen

New Roblox game donates a real-life meal to someone in need for each one served in 'virtual community kitchen'

The new series of “mini games” teaches young people about hunger — and how to help people in need.

Two photos side by side. On the left, Taylor Swift sings on stage in a navy blue sparkly body suit and fringe jacket. On the right, three people stand inside the Daily Bread Food Bank in Toronto, holding a large check and a street sign that reads "Taylor Swift Way."

Taylor Swift street sign auction brings in more than $200k for Canadian food bank

Celebrating Swift’s six Eras Tour shows in Toronto, the city auctioned off 22 commemorative street signs to support a local food bank.

Actress D'Arcy Carden looks at the camera with a smile, from a kitchen set. A Karma scale points in between good and evil.

'The Good Place' star D'Arcy Carden implores you to reduce food waste ahead of Thanksgiving

In a comedy short for Yellow Dot Studios, D’Arcy Carden evoked her “Janet” character by detailing how reducing food waste can get you good karma points.

A black air fryer with three hash brown patties placed in its basket

Air fryers confirmed as 'least polluting' cooking method, according to new study

A new study shows that air fryers produce a tiny fraction of the indoor air pollution emitted by other cooking methods.

Two images side by side. On the left, a person cuts into a Thanksgiving turkey. On the right, a map shows a turkey's journey from Mayberry, NC to Plymouth, MA.

Interactive turkey tracker follows carbon emissions of Thanksgiving birds 'from farm to fork'

The tool follows a single turkey’s journey across the supply chain, with optimizations to help reduce its environmental impact.

Two images side by side. On the left, a Canadian street sign reads "Taylor Swift Way" in front of a backdrop of downtown Toronto. On the right, Taylor Swift sings on stage in a flowing blue dress

Toronto Eras Tour venue calls on Swifites to do good, matching donations up to $113,000 for local food bank

The Canadian city is Swift’s final stop on The Eras Tour, and the Rogers Centre is pulling out all the stops.

Two photos side-by-side. On the left, a stack of tomatoes sits in a grocery store produce aisle. On the right, a 14-year-old boy holds up a scanning device.

When he learned 75% of produce was crawling with pesticides, a teen invented a handheld AI chemical scanner

14-year-old Sirish Subash was horrified when he learned that most grocery store produce is crawling with pesticides. So he invented a handy solution.

Packaged food on a white metal shelf and pallets in a supermarket

Grocery stores that donate expiring food — instead of price discounting or discarding — make higher profits

Since these items can go a long way to feeding hungry people, donations represent one of the best uses of leftover or surplus food.

A photo collage of a strawberry vertical farm, an ExxonMobil tank, a nasal spray vaccine, an aerial view of Atrium Health Hospital, and a kid climbing a large rock

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On the left is the indoor vertical farm of Plenty Richmond Farm in Virginia, on the right is the towering, vertical strawberry plants.

World's first vertical strawberry farm opens in Virginia

The towering berries cover over 400,000 square feet inside Plenty’s new vertical farm.

A photo collage of a kid getting a vaccine, a bottle containing different chemicals to make a protein product, people seated inside a restaurant, a snippet of a line graph of the declining rate of U.S. overdose deaths, and a group of six people planting a tree

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