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Detroit’s Rebel Lunch Lady Wants to Fix More Than Food
One of the running clichés in modern America is that local food is an elitist concern—something only foodies, which is to say rich white folks (and especially hipsters), care about. And then you meet...
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APHIS: More avian flu emergency responders needed
The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service needs more trained emergency responders to handle a potential new outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza, the agency’s administrator told a...
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Startups see potential in 'ugly food' rejected by supermarkets
Giant watermelons ripen on the field but they won’t make it to market – too big to fit in the fridge. The same fate befalls curvy cucumbers and tomatoes that exceed the width of a burger bun. Too big,...
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NHS England prepares for sugar tax with ban on unhealthy food adverts
The NHS in England is paving the way for a sugar tax, understood to be about 20%, by beginning to remove adverts, price promotions and checkout displays for unhealthy food in hospitals and other health...
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This Netflix show makes climate change a serious political thriller
Occupied isn’t a show about climate change. Sure, there’s an energy and environmental policy undercurrent — the drama drops viewers into a cleantech-minded Norway held hostage by Russian and E.U. oil...
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A drying Great Salt Lake spells trouble for Utah
This story was originally published by CityLab and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Great Salt Lake is drying up, thanks to 150 years of human diversions from the...
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Introducing "Bite," our new podcast about food politics
| Sun Mar. 6, 2016 6:00 AM EST In each biweekly episode, we'll interview a writer, scientist, farmer, or chef to uncover the surprising stories behind what ends up on your plate. Earlier this winter,...
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What you need to know about planning a garden. (Hint: It starts with the seeds)
Flipping through seed catalogs in the gray dead of winter, whether or not you’re a gardener, feels a little like tumbling from black-and-white Kansas into Oz. With their colorful, glossy spreads of...
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How Black Tap Makes Its Gravity-Defying Milkshakes
The milkshakes that launched one thousand Instagrams are back, this time with an inside look at how they’re made. Unveiled in November by Black Tap Burgers & Beer in New York City, the desserts...
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Overwhelming majority of Germans contaminated by glyphosate
The herbicide glyphosate can enter the body through food or drinking water. A new study has shown that the majority of Germans have been contaminated by the compound. EurActiv Germany reports. A...
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As Alaska Warms, the Iditarod Adapts
ANCHORAGE — The Iditarod dog-sled race has gripped the imagination here for a long time, partly because it captures the idea, cherished by Alaskans, that a true-north wildness lies just over the...
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Decades Later, 'Spy' Magazine Founders Continue To Torment Trump
Audio for this story from Morning Edition will be available at approximately 9:00 a.m. ET. Soon after its launch in 1986, the satirical magazine Spy picked Donald Trump as the brash embodiment of a...
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You're Running Out of Time to See One of Nature's Most Spectacular Sites
| Mon Mar. 7, 2016 6:00 AM EST If you have ever been snorkeling in a tropical paradise and seen the psychedelic colors and teeming variety of otherworldly sea critters, you were gazing upon something...
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Mandatory GMO labeling is price of pre-emption, says Vilsack
» Read MoreChuck Abbott has been covering food and agriculture policy for nearly three decades. Executives and leaders across the political and corporate spectrum consider FERN's Ag Insider an...
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Trade Group Lobbying for Plant-Based Foods Takes a Seat in Washington
The trade associations representing the beef, pork and poultry industries are among the most powerful lobbies in Washington. And they are about to get some company. A new trade group, the Plant Based...
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The Plant-Based Foods Industry Gets Organized
If you’ve noticed that the variety of meat and dairy replacements in your local grocery store has been expanding in recent years, you’re not alone. The trend toward plant-based protein is projected to...
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Urban Farms Fuel Idealism. Profits? Not So Much
Pick a farm trend in the past decade and urban agriculture is likely to top the list. But for all the timely appeal of having a little house on the urban prairie, the practice often raises a simple...
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24 Women Food and Agriculture Reporters You Should Know About
Naomi Starkman is a Founder and the Editor-in-Chief of Civil Eats. She is a food policy consultant to Consumers Union and others, as well as a founding board member and the Strategic Communications...
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