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More Than Half of What Americans Eat Is 'Ultra-Processed'
Michael Pollan’s guideline that people should “eat food, not too much, mostly plants,” is oft-quoted, less oft-followed. Once again, research has demonstrated that Americans actually tend to eat food,...
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Meet the man who persuaded Whole Foods to start selling uglier fruits and...
This week, Whole Foods announced that it is moving in the decidedly hip direction of offering less-than-attractive fruits and vegetables to its customers. When it tests this new offering in a few...
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Almost everything you buy, from cereal to mascara, is killing the rain forest
I’m an environmentalist, and I try to make green choices. I take public transportation, recycle and program my thermostat. But the care and keeping of our forests always seemed far removed from my...
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Court: GMA unlawfully hid donors’ identities from public
AG Ferguson prevails in landmark campaign finance lawsuit; penalty decision to come OLYMPIA — In a decision made public today, a Thurston County Superior Court judge ruled the Grocery Manufacturer’s...
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U.S. needs to do more to protect bees, GAO says
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration needs to do more to help curtail the sharp decline in the U.S. bee population because the problem shows no signs of abating, the Government Accountability Office...
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Trump’s Week of Errors, Exaggerations and Flat-out Falsehoods
Donald Trump says he is a truthful man. “Maybe truthful to a fault,” he boasted last week at a North Carolina rally where one of his supporters sucker punched a protester. But truthful he is not. Story...
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February breaks global temperature records by 'shocking' amount
February smashed a century of global temperature records by “stunning” margin, according to data released by Nasa. The unprecedented leap led scientists, usually wary of highlighting a single month’s...
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What's On
On Friday 18th March, apprentices from Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen restaurant will be put to the test on a busy trading day. As part of National Apprenticeships Week the Fifteen apprentices will have three...
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Recent events highlight need for safe water for food production
Water is an essential component of many types of food products. Processors, manufacturers, and packers use water to clean, cool and even transport foods during production (in flumes for example). Water...
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How much meat? Debating the balance with Riverford
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The War Against Food Waste
Why do some food issues catch fire while others languish, inert or mired in controversy? Food waste is one. Seemingly overnight, it has gone from being the province of humorless scolds to what every...
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Full Harvest wants to fix the big farm food waste problem at source
Modern farming has a huge problem with food waste, stemming from the mismatch between specific food buyer requirements vs Mother Nature delivering an unsaleable overabundance and/or producing knobbly...
View ArticleHHS releases report showing poverty reduction impact of safety net has...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 14, 2016Contact: HHS Press Office 202-690-6343 media@hhs.gov Just over 50 years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared an “unconditional war on poverty.” Today, the...
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How antibiotic resistance could wreak havoc on health, food and travel
In January, a coalition of 85 biotechnology, pharmaceutical and diagnostics companies, including Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer, came together at the World Economic Forum in Davos to form a landmark...
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Can 'Slow Fish' Help Save America's Small-Scale Fishermen?
You can't find a more intimate relationship between humans, food and nature than fishing, says Michele Mesmain, international coordinator of Slow Fish, a seafood spinoff of the Italy-based Slow Food...
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As Labeling Vote Looms, Inconvenient Truths Are Ignored
The U.S. Senate looks poised to vote this week on the contentious national debate over GMO labeling, but as the potentially landmark vote looms, facts that should be at the heart of the discussion are...
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Tell Senator Klobuchar to Stop Promoting the DARK Act
This week, the Senate will take up the DARK Act, and one of its biggest cheerleaders is Senator Klobuchar Monsanto (D-MN). Last December the Deny Americans the Right to Know (DARK) Act was defeated in...
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Cash-strapped farmers struggle to pay cropland rents
Faced with declining profits, some Iowa farmers are defaulting on cropland rents — a largely unheard of move given the intense competition for the state's fertile farmland and a sign that financial...
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It Will Take a Village To Cut Food Waste, Says Roadmap
It’s time to get serious about food waste. That’s the argument made in a report released by Rethink Food Waste Through Economics and Data (ReFED) last week. The group, comprised of businesses,...
View ArticleTexas Star Nut & Food Company is Expanding the Recall on Natural...
1-844-571-5555 512-658-9940 Texas Star Nut & Food Company expands the previous Recall issued on March 10, 2016, to include the following items and Best by Dates: BRANDDESCRIPTIONSIZEUPCBEST BY...
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