peanuts
Why People Are Mad That the 'Stranger Things Kids' Passed Out PB&Js at the Emmys
“We received complaints and concerns regarding the broadcast. This is very much on our radar… It is extremely risky to pull a stunt like this without considering the danger.”
Ben & Jerry's Warns That Your Favorite Ice Cream Could Soon Be Extinct
Ben and Jerry have a cemetery dedicated to their discontinued flavors and—if we don’t clean up our act—climate change could add another two dozen headstones.
Why This Australia City Has Become the Food Allergy Capital of the World
And while the beauty, weather, quality of life, and vibrancy of its restaurant scene make Melbourne a great place to live, its location and climate also make it a prime spot for the prevalence of potentially lethal food allergies.
Therapy Could Cure Your Peanut Allergy
New research funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows that oral immunotherapy—the process of eating small, gradually increasing amounts of peanut—can successfully suppress peanut allergies in young children.
This Is the GMO Peanut That Could Rid the World of Nut Allergies
By decoding the DNA of peanuts, a group of scientists from the University of Western Australia say they can make an allergy-free peanut.
A Restaurant Owner Has Been Charged with Manslaughter Over Death by Curry
In a landmark legal decision, a jury has found Mohammed Zaman guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence and six food safety offences, after prosecutors charged him with being responsible for the death of a customer who had a severe peanut allergy.
Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #111
VICE's comic critic reviews the last volume of the collected "Peanuts," comedian Judah Friedlander's new book of cartoons, and more.
How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Peanut
Now that we've established that hiding peanut products from kids is just making the allergy epidemic worse, can we go back to worshipping fluffernutters?
Myanmar Is Powered by Peanuts
Myanmar might not be the cultural home to the peanut butter sandwich, the peanut is still king here. After all, this is a place where you can get a chicken curry drowned in oil and salads showered in Elvis's favorite legume.
America’s Got a $2 Billion Peanut Problem
Why is the US spending enough money to keep Lebron James playing for 80 years on peanuts we don't need? Blame the 2014 USDA-backed Farm Bill, which protects farmers from losing money if the market price for peanuts drops.
How Food Allergies Can Destroy Your Life
After a couple bad experiences with trace amounts of peanuts, I was sent into a spiral of anxiety and fear that took me months to recover from.
A Peanut Exec Just Received the Harshest Food Safety Prison Sentence Ever
The former owner and president of the Peanut Corporation of America was sentenced to 28 years in prison for allowing the distribution of tainted peanuts across the United States that led to the death of nine people.