10 Trumped Up Halloween Terrors
A look at the real-life horrors our government is peddling this year — and a look at the movements rising up to stop them.
This Year’s Real Halloween Horror
The family that has made billions off trick-or-treat candy has gone generations without paying any appreciable tax on its enormous fortune.
The Great Pumpkin Shortage Is Coming
Spooky weather patterns are disrupting specialty crops.
The Cost of Cheap Chocolate
Despite years of pressure on Hershey’s, Nestlé, and other chocolate heavyweights, thousands of kids under 14 are still doing the tough work of harvesting cocoa beans.
This Week in OtherWords: Halloween Fare
The food we eat is pretty scary.
The Spooky Side of Chocolate
There’s nothing sweet about child labor.
The Ingredient Haunting our Candy
Milk protein concentrate is in thousands of the things we eat, but there’s no government oversight ensuring that this ingredient is safe for consumers.
Tricky Treats
Sugar haunts too much of what we eat these days.
Trick or Mistreat
Big Chocolate uses forced labor in West Africa and feeds obesity and diabetes in the United States.