As our food systems have grown increasingly complex over the past 50-odd years, it has become more and more difficult for consumers to know where their food comes from and how it made its way from a farm to their table. Even if you’re buying directly from the farmer, there comes a point in…

Every once in awhile when I’m researching a story, I come across a lie told so openly no one suspects it to be anything but the truth. This one is a whopper. A company called Brandt Beef, which markets itself as “The True Natural,”and is the primary supplier to Dean & Deluca, supplying what…

About TFT Reader Investigations: First we asked you to vote on the topic you wanted to investigate together with our reporter. It was a new experiment in journalism, which caught the attention of the Columbia Journalism Review. Now the voting is over and we have a winner: generic and…