Michael Moss

Scientists are using surgery and breeding techniques to re-engineer the farm animal to fit the needs of the 21st-century meat industry, but animal welfare has been ignored.

For the past 50 years, the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center has been making the meat industry more efficient and productive by utilizing aggressive and sometimes cruel methods.

Is it really worse than table sugar? You'd be surprised, says author Michael Moss, who answers that question and discusses the ongoing battle between the sugar and corn industries.

The book Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us reveals how companies create foods to addict us - from the food science labs to the marketing campaigns.

Even if you're relatively secure about your health and waistline, it's been impossible to completely miss the buzz around the major diet trends of recent years. But is all this nutr...

Michael Moss, New York Times reporter, talks about the use of firearms in Newtown, Connecticut, and how resistant the area has been to gun control.

Adam Winkler, Constitutional law professor at UCLA and author of:  Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America, explains what we know about the weapons allegedly used by the shooter Adam Lanza, what black rifles are and why they are so popular.

 

Libel? The psychiatrist vs. The New Yorker.