Conversations with two Amazon employees—one who works in marketing, and one who works as a Prime shopper—reveal the discrepancies in how different workers at the tech giant have weathered the pandemic.

As news of the recent closure of Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar in Times Square, New York City, got around, Fieri’s adversaries grasped the opportunity (mostly on Twitter) to exercise gratuitous savagery.

The first year of the coronavirus pandemic was a critical turning point for tofu as it accelerated into “staple” territory. Nasoya, the most popular tofu brand in the U.S., saw an instant boom as quarantine mandates spread across the country. Beginning in March, “there was initially more pandemic buying,” Jay Toscano, the executive vice president of sales for Pulmuone, the parent company of Nasoya, tells Inverse. The company initially saw 20 to 40 percent more sales on orders.

While we both love food, we don’t see eye to eye on the ethics behind it or, perhaps better put, I have a real passion for the environmental and humane aspects behind my eating, while his take is more along the lines of, "I love hot dogs."

From dietary supplements to juices to pants (yes, pants) and bedsheets, brands are employing a cruel kind of marketing to sell their products. The strategy, unique to the year 2020, might be dubbed “COVID-washing.” Like greenwashing before it, where companies convey misleading information that their products are sustainable, COVID-washing draws in consumers by conveying the false impression that a certain product can cure or repel COVID-19.

From kombucha to kale to a Kardashian-endorsed honey product, new “health food” trends catch on like a cold in a kindergarten classroom.

As it turns out, walking a cat on a leash isn't some senseless gimmick. Many felines find great pleasure in time spent outside, enjoying the sounds of birds chirping and the scent of freshly cut grass, just like humans do.

I can’t speak definitively for him, but I’d wager heavily that Anthony Bourdain would not stand for this shit. As a caravan of migrants, mostly from Central America, seeks asylum in the United States, the Trump administration has denigrated thousands of people who are desperate for safety from persecution they’d otherwise have to endure in their home countries.

“Let me tell you something — the best pho is not in Vietnam, it’s in Houston."

When you visit the supermarket, is it better for the planet to carry home your groceries in a paper, plastic or reusable tote bag? The answer is more complicated than you might think.

Many people who loathe exercise arguably feel that way because of how the activity has been marketed to them. For too long, exercise and weight loss have been indivisibly bound, leading many to fall into the comparison trap, experience shame or engage in negative self-talk. But moving your body grants so much more than a fit figure or relief from the guilt of indulging in a “cheat meal.” Movement is self-improvement beyond the physical form.