Tag: food

Grocery aisle garbage vs. free-market wellness: how food subsidies contribute to poor health

October 24, 2023 | Post

Time to peel back the oniony layers of the food industry according to free-market principles. 

Our mission: to understand how market distortions such as food subsidies are contributing to poor health in America.

Why was this year’s 4th of July cookout so expensive?

July 5, 2022 | Post

According to a survey from the American Farm Bureau Federation, the cost of an average 4th of July feast is up by 17 percent from 2021. Why is this?

How the government is fueling the obesity epidemic

May 31, 2022 | Post

There is a more sinister reason for the overlap between junk food and cheap food. Government subsidies of the ingredients that are the hallmarks of unhealthy food are nudging Americans toward junk food and fueling the obesity epidemic.

What is “risk preference,” you ask? Consider the waffle…

August 11, 2017 | Post

It looked … delicious. I was sure that it would taste delicious, too. But eating it would have been a bad idea for two reasons.

Famine is about freedom, not just food

March 26, 2017 | Post

How can people still starve in a world overflowing with food and a vast international aid apparatus?

Why it would be madness to produce all our own food

March 14, 2017 | Post

There’s a reason why, in times of war, countries have blockaded others.

Market demand is reforming farm ethics

March 10, 2017 | Post

Regardless of one’s position on eating meat, one can still care about not intentionally inflicting pain on animals.