onions

National
Health & Safety

CDC says toss onions if you don't know where they came from to avoid salmonella

9:00pm October 20, 2021

by Jonathan Franklin

A salmonella outbreak has affected more than 30 states. Federal health officials link it to onions grown in Chihuahua, Mexico, and distributed by ProSource Inc.

Sanjay Sathe, 44, grows onions on about an acre of land on a roadside in India's Maharashtra state. His family farm prospered under his grandfather and father, but now he has to raise goats because the price of onions keeps falling.

World News

'I Rue The Day We Ever Became Farmers': In Rural India, A Struggle To Survive

1:37pm February 12, 2019

by Lauren Frayer

"The farmer dies feeding this country, but no one fights for the farmer," says a woman whose son, a farmer, died by suicide. He was $40,000 in debt. Her husband died of a heart attack days later.

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A chemical irritant that onions use to protect themselves against animals is released when we cut them, making us cry.

National
Science

Stop Crying! Tear-Free Onions Are Here

1:22pm February 08, 2018

by Tove Danovich

For years, people have been crying about how chopping onions brings on the waterworks. Well, there's finally a tearless onion, but the allium has not quite caught on with the general public yet.