Good News About Food

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

This pig makes delicious bacon. And she didn't have to die for it to get to your plate

A company called Mission Barns is cultivating pork fat in bioreactors and turning it into meatballs and other products. Honestly, they're pretty darn good.

Chef David Martin plates a dessert in a commercial kitchen

These chefs left prestigious culinary jobs to cook at nursing homes: 'We want to make this industry better'

David Martin and Harry Shen are breaking stereotypes by making gourmet meals for nursing home residents.

An aerial view of a spread of Thanksgiving food, all in foil containers

For those hungry for the holidays, this influencer invents and donates 'Thanksgiving in a Box'

Rebecca Chobat has been finding ways to make low-cost meals fulfilling and delicious for years, through her TikTok account @dollartreedinners.

Private chef uses restaurant scraps to make hundreds of gourmet meals for food banks

Maddy Goldberg was inspired to volunteer her skills when she realized how much food was being wasted in the restaurant industry.

Four people, including New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, hold up turkeys in New York

AOC donates 1,600 Thanksgiving turkeys to hungry families in the Bronx

The Congresswoman has hosted a Thanksgiving-themed food distribution for years now.

A photo collage of a powdered form of KLU156, Chris Martin singing on stage, an indigenous man raises his fist in the air, two men shovelling the ground, and a man riding a rickshaw

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Boxes of groceries stacked in the trunk of a delivery van

Charlotte volunteers deliver hundreds of free grocery boxes to immigrant families fearing ICE raids

OurBridge for Kids paused afterschool programming with increased ICE presence, organizing a food drive in the meantime.

A worker at Compare Foods stocks produce in a grocery store

Latino-owned grocery chain offers free delivery to people afraid of leaving home due to ICE raids

Compare Foods hopes to give customers “peace of mind from the comfort of their home.”

A person holds a bowl of stew in a white ceramic bowl

'Souper Sunday:' This 6,000-person Facebook group gives away free, homemade soup to anyone in need

Chris Hyde of Olympia, Washington believes a bowl of soup “transcends the powers that work to divide us.”

Two photos side-by-side. on the left is a mother-daughter duo. On the right is a flay-lay of a kid's Play-Dough set

This Latina mom invented a whole new way for her autistic child to make tamales. It inspired a full-blown business

With the colorful dough and easy-to-manage wooden accessories, little ones can spread and shape “masa” to make tamales, tortillas, and pan dulce.

A vibrant community fridge full of lettuce, mangoes, and other produce is open in Harlem, New York

This vibrant community fridge gives free fruits and veggies to hundreds of New Yorkers every week

The 155th Street Fridge has been operating for six years now. One volunteer, Juanita, says: “We all family out here.”

A photo collage of a solar farm, Remy Tucker, entrepreneur and founder of 'On The House', a Black Rhino mother with its calf, Gary Sinise posing for a photo, and canyons

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