Growing a Healthier Future: Improving Nutrition and Access to Healthy Food...
Since taking office in 2009, the Obama Administration has strengthened the core USDA nutrition programs that support our nation’s vulnerable populations while, at the same time, putting in place...
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Some Of Life's Best Lessons Can Be Found In 'Lousy' Kitchen Jobs
Our resumes are grounded in assumptions. Want a job? Assume it's best to exaggerate your leadership experience. Assume you should build up your image as a self-starter and team-player. And, unless you...
View Article115, 993 Americans ask USDA to stop silencing its scientists
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A coalition of food safety, consumer, and environmental groups will deliver 115,993 petition signatures urging the USDA to stop silencing its own scientists and censoring their...
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Raj Patel’s TEDMED Talk
In Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, farmers haven’t just figured out how to grow more food but how to build healthier communities. After you’ve watched Raj’s TEDMED Talk, learn more:...
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Rethink Food Waste
Food Waste The Problem Waste by Volume Financial Waste ReFED Goals Action Spread The Word Four Tools Financing Policy Innovation Education Stay Connected Analysis Solutions The Impact Supply Chain...
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California Widow Sues Monsanto Alleging Roundup Caused Her Husband's Cancer
Genetically Engineered Foods Health Facebook Twitter E-mail Print LinkedIn Pinterest Google+ StumbleUpon Tumblr Reddit Buffer Email A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against Monsanto Co. by the...
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A frightening record: Carbon dioxide levels show biggest-annual jump
Recently, we’ve had more reason than usual to be optimistic on climate change — the world reached its first truly global climate agreement in December, there are a lot of signs that China is getting...
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Global food production threatens to overwhelm efforts to combat climate change
Each year our terrestrial biosphere absorbs about a quarter of all the carbon dioxide emissions that humans produce. This a very good thing; it helps to moderate the warming produced by human...
View ArticleEatin' Alive Issues Allergy Alert on Undeclared Soy in Thai Peanut Noodles...
Eatin' Alive 503-365-4469 View Product Photos Eatin' Alive of Portland, Oregon is recalling Thai Peanut Noodles and Thai Wrap, because they contain undeclared soy. People who have an allergy or severe...
View ArticleWonderful Pistachios Voluntarily Recalls Pistachios Due to Possible Health Risk
844-505-3844 View Product Photos LOST HILLS, Calif. Wonderful Pistachios announced that it is voluntarily recalling a limited number of flavors and sizes of in-shell and shelled pistachios due to a...
View ArticleTransparency: Search Results
Title Type Organization Amount Date Athlete leadership Program* Partnership Special Olympics Melbourne Inner East AU$10,000 2015 Bike Education Program* Partnership Frankston Special Development School...
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The Battle Over the Most Used Herbicide Heats Up as Nearly 100 Scientists...
One year ago, an agency of the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Cancer Research (IARC) declared that glyphosate (or Roundup), the world’s most widely used herbicide, probably causes...
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Coca-Cola has spent $1.7 million funding Australian health groups over five...
Marcus Strom -Mar 10, 2016 The Coca-Cola sign in Kings Cross, Sydney. Photo: Brendan Esposito Coca-Cola has released a list of health groups and research institutions in Australia to which it makes...
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Chained to the Stove: What It's Really Like to Write a Cookbook
For the last several years, while I've coauthored five cookbooks with five different chefs, my professional role has been Full-Time Pain in the Ass. As any of the chefs with whom I've collaborated can...
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Don't let the planet Bern: Column
An anti-establishment candidate for his party’s presidential nomination proposes to scrap the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, phase out the nation’s largest source of zero-carbon power, and...
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Cheers! Enjoy a Tall Glass of Roundup
It’s been a tough year for glyphosate, the world’s most popular weedkiller. A year ago, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an arm of the World Health Organization, declared that...
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Grandparent Gardening Week
Taking place from 14th-18th March 2016, Grandparent Gardening Week helps schools get support from the local community to kick start their gardens into action after the winter. Hosting gardening...
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Sixteen School Lunch Programs Making a Difference
Over 31 million children in the United States consume most of their daily caloric intake at school. For many children, it may be the only food they eat regularly each day. But improving the quality of...
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Sustainable Food Trust
Young people today are inheriting a catalogue of issues associated with a broken food system. Josh Viertel, former Slow Food USA President, told Slow Food’s International Congress in 2008, “There is...
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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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