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Donald Trump Encourages Violence At His Rallies. His Fans Are Listening.
Yasmeen Alamiri was standing in the press pen at a Donald Trump rally in Radford, Virginia, late last month when a man in the crowd called her a terrorist. The slur didn’t register, perhaps because...
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Marco Rubio Spouts Every Type Of Climate Denial
Jake Tapper, moderator of Thursday night's CNN Republican debate, asked Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) about climate change's impact on southern Florida, citing the concerns raised by Miami's Republican Mayor...
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Solving Slavery in Seafood. Well, Not Exactly.
I was glad to see President Obama sign a bill recently that closed a loophole in a tariff law that had been tacitly allowing products associated with forced labor to be sold in the U.S., but we still...
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This war over GMOs could change your grocery shopping forever
| Fri Mar. 11, 2016 6:00 AM EST Political forces unleashed in a tiny state like Vermont (pop. 626,000) sometimes reverberate on the national stage, and Bernie Sanders isn't the only recent example. A...
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You're probably shopping for vegetables wrong. Here's how to do it better.
Not all produce is created equal. I got a first whiff of this truth as a teenager, traveling in Italy. I noticed the pasta sauces and watermelons there popped with much more flavor than those I was...
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an open education resource to transform our food systems
Food systems around the world have been radically transformed in the past 200 years. Yet over 800 million people go hungry and 1.4bn are overweight. Food systems will be further transformed this...
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2016 Chefs Collaborative Summit
Chefs Collaborative’s 7th Annual Summit, Good Food is Smart Business, will take place in New York City from April 10-12th, 2016 in partnership with New York University. Together, in the heart of...
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Moving Forward Together
Cafeterias in schools and early care locations, colleges and universities, hospitals and other institutional settings serve tens of millions of Americans every day, placing the farm to cafeteria...
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Spirit of Sustainable Agriculture
Harvard Divinity School is pleased to host a conference on “The Spirit of Sustainable Agriculture,” from March 31-April 1, 2016. It has been more than ninety years since Rudolf Steiner offered his...
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Marine Life Thrives in Unlikely Place: Offshore Oil Rigs
EUREKA OIL PLATFORM OFF CALIFORNIA COAST — Eight miles off the coast of Long Beach, Calif., the But beneath the waves, the Eureka and other rigs like it in the area are home to a vast and thriving...
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No Whey! Seven Surprising Facts About Cheese
Cheese. It’s so good, we’ve put it on nearly everything. Or rather, it’s so gouda, we’ve put it on nearly everything. This week, Science Friday is celebrating all things cheese, from delicious...
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Michael Pollan Has the (Food) Question We Should Be Asking Trump and Hillary
Michael Pollan, one of our greatest thinkers on the subject of eating, didn't plan on writing about food. "I kind of backed into it," he says. More than a decade ago, he became curious about our...
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What’s Working to Help Kids Across America Eat Healthy?
About Culture of Health Follow Culture of Health Keyword: Go Contributors Contributors Susan Mende Kristin Schubert Susan Dentzer Maisha Simmons Andrea Ducas Tara Oakman Alonzo L. Plough John R....
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Climate change in Mongolia destroying pastures on which nomadic herders rely
Daashka and his brother tear across the Mongolian steppe on a motorbike in a desperate search for somewhere to graze their herds. Pastureland is dwindling rapidly as the country is beset by a cycle of...
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Chile's salmon farms losing up to $800 million from algal bloom
Technology | Wed Mar 9, 2016 10:05pm EST SANTIAGO | SANTIAGO A deadly algal bloom has hit the world's second biggest salmon exporter, Chile, where nearly 23 million fish have already died and the...
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A Plastic-Eating Bacterium Might Help Deal With Waste One Day
Plastic makes great food packaging. It's waterproof and flexible. And best of all, it's impervious to all known bacteria — until now. Researchers have found a bacterium in the debris fields around a...
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Americans are nothing but Lucky Charms and chicken fingers, study shows
In news that should surprise absolutely no one, researchers report that Americans eat a lot of highly processed foods. And in equally unsurprising news, we especially like bread, soda, fruit drinks,...
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Funding to Support Healthy Meals and Environments in Our Nation’s Schools and...
March is National Nutrition Month. Throughout the month, USDA will be highlighting results of our efforts to improve access to safe, healthy food for all Americans and supporting the health of our next...
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Instacart, a Startup Worth $2 Billion, Slashes Pay of Some of Its Lowest-Paid...
Instacart, the darling of the grocery-delivery industry, is looking to an unusual area of its company to decrease wages: Some of its best-performing front-line workers. Over the last few weeks, the...
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