It’s been a busy week on the food and agriculture beat: There was the House Agriculture Committee hearing featuring top meatpacking CEOs, there was Beyond Meat’s pop from McPlant fake news, and there was the first case in the U.S. of bird flu transferring to humans. The Colorado-based worker who has tested positive was employed at a farm dealing with an outbreak in its flock, and while it’s unlikely that the virus will mutate enough to transfer easily between humans, the case is a reminder that the next pandemic could originate on a factory farm.
My own reporting still has me deep in the world of water and where it’s scarce. That has me tracking my own consumption of the vital liquid in my everyday life, maybe a bit too much.
— Chloe Sorvino, Staff Writer
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How Deliciously Ella Built A $25 Million Plant-Based Business. When Ella Mills launched her plant-based recipe blog—Deliciously Ella—in 2012, business was far from top of mind. After spending a year in and out of the hospital with illnesses that left her mental and physical health at an all-time low, the 20-year-old simply wanted to explore what effects a less-processed diet might have on her health. And learn to cook in the process, writes Lela London.
A perfect lunch outdoors at Gjusta.
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Iam missing my trip to California last month and this little gem salad topped with anchovies from Gjusta in Venice Beach. I couldn’t resist a slice of the orange-marmalade polenta cake to complete my spread.
Chloe Sorvino leads coverage of food and agriculture as a staff writer on the enterprise team at Forbes. Her nearly eight years of reporting at Forbes has brought her to In-N-Out Burger’s secret test kitchen, drought-ridden farms in California’s Central Valley, burnt-out national forests logged by a timber billionaire, a century-old slaughterhouse in Omaha, and even a chocolate croissant factory designed like a medieval castle in Northern France. Her book, Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed and the Fight for the Future of Meat , will publish in December 2022 with Simon & Schuster’s Atria Books.
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