This simple yet powerful declaration, “Potatoes are a vegetable — period,” underscores the conviction within the agriculture community about the rightful place of potatoes among vegetables. It’s a ...

Madhav Acharya (Letters, October 9) argues that shows of emotion at the dinner table would vanish if, rather than consuming the flesh of dead farm animals, we all became vegans. She has evidently ...

There have been many collections of letters before this one, and no doubt there will be many to follow. But it is hard to see how Letters Of Note could ever be surpassed. It is not just an amazingly ...

Can you believe the meat price increases predicted by USDA Economic Research Service? Fifteen percent for red meat and 11 percent for fish and eggs. Way over the predicted 8 percent inflation rate, ...

I’m an internal medicine physician, and I am concerned about the health of our country. Today, most of our health care dollars are spent on the management of chronic diseases with pills and procedures ...

A recent E-R food section article extolling the virtues of fake meat, piqued my creative instincts. Fake meat is a product that purports to imitate meat but is actually created from vegetables. It is ...

People who purchase vegetable plants should be sure that the store is not charging sales tax. In Florida, all vegetable plants and seeds are not taxable. This is also true of other items such as ...