Category: Food - Page 6

Who Regulates the Food We Eat?

By | August 31, 2023 |

Two black cows stick their heads under a fence to eat out of a trough.

There’s a fight brewing over who will regulate U.S. food — and who picks up the tab. Here’s what Kansas and Missouri producers think about the EATS Act.

Search Continues for Food and Retail Employees at New KCI

By | July 26, 2023 |

Lovell Holloway, general manager for Vantage Airport Group, the lead developer of KCI's concessions.

Businesses hope to employ 1,000 workers at the new Kansas City International Airport (KCI) terminal. But they remain about 400 employees short of that goal.

A Lawrence Farmer’s Innovative Approach to Food Security

By | June 7, 2023 |

A man in a gray shirt and black pants bends over a row of short bean plants situated at the base of a trellis. With his hand he demonstrates the size of the beans yielded by the plants to address food security.

LAWRENCE, Kansas — Pantaleon Florez III looks at food security as an issue to be solved. He asks those working in local food systems (and himself) what they would do if their community didn’t have a hunger issue. “That’s my new narrative: ‘What would you do if you didn’t have to do this work?’”…

Turning Ugly Food Waste into Delightful Meals

By | July 22, 2022 |

Kanbe’s Markets, which diverts food otherwise headed to landfills, has teamed up with restaurants to see what their chefs could come up with using “ugly food.”