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After two years of dramatic increases, the grocery store price of beef is stabilizing, says the Food Price Outlook.
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Some 41 million children under the age of 5 are overweight or obese, a 33-percent increase worldwide in a generation, says a report to the UN World Health Organization that urges public and private groups to reverse the trend.
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What do the renegade militia members in Oregon have in common with carp? They both have a habit of invading. Ever since the Bundy boys and their crew came into the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on January 2, well-armed and calling for the takedown of public lands, refuge staff have been forced to abandon a critical invasive carp removal program, reports High Country News.
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Around the world, people are drinking less orange juice, with consumption down one-fifth in the past decade to roughly 1.9 million tonnes this year. Production, dominated by Brazil and the United States, peaked five years ago and has generally declined since.
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The ruling Liberal Democratic Party in Japan plans an overhaul of the country's agricultural policy so the farm sector will prosper under the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade pact.
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The food industry is bankrolling a publicity blitz against mandatory GMO food labels that includes "a six-figure campaign that is running ads in prime time on network and cable TV in and around the nation’s capital," says the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
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Much of DC is snowbound but the party spirit abides. On a nighttime dog walk, the Insider found a sedate celebration in a driveway apron cleared of snow. Several neighbors sat in lawn chairs around a fire pit. Trays holding adult beverages were stabbed into the snowy walls and a portable music player sat on a car trunk.
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Weak crop and livestock prices combined to pull down U.S. net cash farm income -- a measure of farmers' ability to pay bills and make payments on debt -- 28 percent in 2015, the second year of falling income.
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Americans "have a right to easy access of basic information about their food," said six Democratic senators, including presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, in questioning the food-industry initiative to use QR codes on packages to divulge data such as genetically engineered ingredients.
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