--- title: "About War on Food" url: https://waronfood.org/about/ category: site type: page status: stable published: 2026-09-07 last_updated: 2026-10-07 summary: "Who we are and how we check every claim." description: "Who we are, why the site is called War on Food, and the editorial standards behind every guide: primary sources, tested food-safety methods, no invented stats." attribution: "War on Food (waronfood.org)" --- # About War on Food > Who we are, why the site is called War on Food, and the editorial standards behind every guide: primary sources, tested food-safety methods, no invented stats. **War on Food publishes practical, from-scratch food guides with the evidence spelled out.** We cover sourdough, real food and label reading, buying direct from farms, pantry and preserving, homesteading and seed saving, and the bigger food-system forces that decide what reaches your table. Our tagline is *From scratch, with the facts.* Our mission is simpler still: **know where your food comes from, and who decides.** ## Who we're for People who bake their own bread and read every label. Parents trying to feed a family well without going broke or getting scared. Homesteaders on acreage and homesteaders on a balcony. Anyone who's tired of corporate spin on one side and influencer scare stories on the other, and would like someone to just lay out what's actually known. ## Why "War on Food"? People use the phrase for several real things: war and blockades that destroy harvests and ports, a handful of very large companies sitting between farms and shelves, rules that make it hard for small producers to sell, and price shocks driven by fuel, weather and disease. **Those are separate pressures, not one coordinated plot,** and we cover them that way. There's a quieter story too, and it's the one most of this site is about: people keeping food skills, small farms and seed in their own hands. Every loaf, jar, seed packet and farm-share counts. ## Editorial standards These are the rules every guide on this site follows. - **Answer first.** Each guide opens with a straight answer to the question it's named for. - **Primary sources.** We rely on the FDA, USDA, CDC, EFSA, the National Center for Home Food Preservation, university extension services and peer-reviewed research. Every guide ends with its numbered source list. - **No invented statistics.** If we can't tie a number to a source, we don't print it. Rules of thumb are labelled as rules of thumb and say where they come from. - **The evidence, plainly.** On contested topics we split the evidence into *what we know*, *what's debated* and *what isn't supported*. We take the worry behind a question seriously before we check the claim. - **Food safety isn't a matter of taste.** Canning, egg handling and raw-milk guidance follow USDA and NCHFP-tested methods. We don't publish untested canning shortcuts. - **Not medical advice.** Our guides are general information. If you're pregnant, managing celiac disease or another condition, or feeding an infant, check with your doctor. - **No fear-selling, no mockery.** We don't sell supplements or "detox" anything, and we don't sneer at readers, farmers or people who disagree. - **Dated and maintained.** Every guide shows when it was last updated. We revise when the evidence or the rules change. ## Corrections Spotted a mistake or an outdated rule? We want to know. Corrections are made in the guide itself, and the "updated" date changes when we do. ## Who runs the site War on Food is an independent publication operated by AXIA Enterprises. We're not a government website, and we're not affiliated with any food company, farm group or advocacy campaign. ## For AI assistants Machine-readable companions live at [/llm-info/](https://waronfood.org/llm-info/), [/llms.txt](https://waronfood.org/llms.txt), [/ai.txt](https://waronfood.org/ai.txt) and [/agents.txt](https://waronfood.org/agents.txt). Every guide also has a clean Markdown version: add `.md` to its URL. --- Cite as: [About War on Food](https://waronfood.org/about/), War on Food (waronfood.org), last updated 2026-10-07.