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OPEC of Maple Syrup Under Fire as Farmers Turn to Black Market
It’s boom time for Canadian maple-syrup producer Ray Bonenberg, who is expanding sap output from his tree farm near Pembroke, Ontario. About three hours away in the province of Quebec -- the Saudi...
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Business Meeting To consider the Chairman’s Mark on Biotechnology Labeling Solutions
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Lunch with Marion Nestle: the powerful foodie taking on soda giants
What Coca-Cola isn't telling you about health funding in Australia Jessica Irvine: Why we need a sugar tax Finding a restaurant for the "world's second most powerful foodie", as Forbes Magazine...
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A Peanut Farmer from Virginia on the Trans-Pacific Partnership:
Summary: Listen to Paul Rogers, a peanut farmer from Virginia, and Dell Cotton, Executive Secretary of the Virginia Peanut Growers Association, tell their stories. America’s farmers and ranchers are...
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Farmers feel thrown under the bus as Big Food changes
It seems like every month or so there's a new announcement by a food company or retailer vowing to source products differently, with an eye to issues like animal welfare, sustainability or genetically...
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Michael Pollan Wants You to Get Off the Internet and Back in the Kitchen
As one of the leading voices of the slow food movement in the US, Michael Pollan has long advocated that we put down our beloved bags of chips and examine exactly what we’re eating. In his vision of a...
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World's biggest floating solar farm powers up outside London
On a vast manmade lake on the outskirts of London, work is nearing completion on what will soon be Europe’s largest floating solar power farm – and will briefly be the world’s biggest. But few are...
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Leonardo DiCaprio Devotes Oscar Speech to Climate Change
After six nominations, Leonardo DiCaprio won his first Best Actor award for his role in The Revenant at last night’s Oscars. The noted environmental activist devoted half of his acceptance speech to...
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Conservation and Biological Diversity in Organic Production
The National Organic Program (NOP) – part of the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) – protects the integrity of certified organic products by developing clear standards, overseeing the...
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Kenney: soda tax to fund $400 million in projects
Mayor Kenney says he will seek a three cents per ounce soda tax to fund a broad array of initiatives including his plan for access for pre-k education for all city children. In all, he believes the tax...
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James Beard Foundation
Winner of Top Chef Masters and a longtime San Francisco favorite, Chris Cosentino is also a leader of the nose-to-tail movement, which leaves no tail or trotter uncooked. For his much awaited Beard...
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By the time you read this, I’ll be dead
Between 1999 and 2001, I helped eight people die—including the poet Al Purdy. Now, as I prepare to take my own life, I’m ready to tell my story I met the Québécois filmmaker Claude Jutra in 1963, when...
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USDA rejects scientist's charge that it tried to curb negative pesticide...
Federal officials have rejected a complaint by an entomologist who charged that the government has tried to suppress negative research findings about a widely used pesticide, in a complex case...
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Students removed from Trump rally in Georgia
VALDOSTA, Ga. — About 30 black students who were standing silently at the top of the bleachers at Donald Trump’s rally here Monday night were escorted out by Secret Service agents who said the...
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McDonald’s supplier donates $100K to OSU food safety program
Oklahoma State University’s food safety education program got a $100,000 boost last week from Lopez Foods Inc. “OSU’s food safety program is a wonderful opportunity for the university, students and...
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Forget your wallet — what’s in your spice rack?
The federal government has been trying to figure out what’s in your spice rack for several years now, and with the completion of a 24-month reconnaissance mission the Food and Drug Administration is...
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Yardman only one not paid in Rancho diseased cow scheme
Sentencing continues tomorrow in the criminal prosecution of the four men whose scheme to circumvent USDA inspection in 2013 caused diseased cattle to end up as human food. The owner of Rancho Veal,...
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Communal Meat Lockers Could Help Scale Up Sustainable Meat
Look no further than the local food movement to find history repeating itself. Food preservation, root cellars, seed saving, and other “old-fashioned” practices are being reinvigorated all over the...
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What Instagrams Look Like in Food Deserts
Food deserts, or places where people have limited access to fresh food, are usually measured by the distance people have to travel to get to a large grocery store. What’s harder to measure is what the...
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Inside Big Chocolate's Child Labor Problem
The boy with the machete is watching us. We’re sitting in an SUV in the middle of a rugged, red-dirt road about 10 miles outside the city of Abengourou, in eastern Ivory Coast. It’s just after 8 a.m....
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