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.
On this page
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/, /llms.txt, /ai.txt and /agents.txt. Every guide also has a clean Markdown version: add .md to its URL.