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GMO Labeling Law Roils Food Companies
March 20, 2016 5:45 p.m. ET The U.S. food industry is fighting one of its fiercest regulatory battles in years over labels for ingredients made with genetically modified organisms. And it is losing—to...
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It's time to put down the civet-poop coffee
BANGKOK, Thailand — Perhaps you’ve heard of “kopi luwak,” the world’s priciest coffee. And perhaps you know its main claim to notoriety: The drink is brewed from beans swallowed and excreted by civets,...
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These startups want to bring surplus food to those in need
"We sell ugly fruit and vegetables," says Ben Simon, CEO of Imperfect Produce. "Or as we like to call it, cosmetically challenged." Semantics aside, mountains of food go to waste each year because it's...
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A Communal Feast of Heirloom Beans
Ken Greene taught school in California for five years. In 2000, he came east to work on a master’s degree, and he took a part-time job running the children’s programs at the public library in Gardiner,...
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America's Young Farmers: We Want Student Loan Relief
At a recent benefit dinner inside Maude, a pint-size Beverly Hills eatery that is one of Los Angeles’s hottest tickets, celebrity chef Curtis Stone was extolling the virtues of a nonprofit. The...
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A Local Apple a Day... Benefits Kids, Farmers and the Environment
These days many of us are looking to get more fresh, local, and sustainably grown food onto our plates. Now we have a chance to ensure that New York students have more access to local produce too. The...
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FDA finds plenty of salmonella in cucumbers
With help from Cogan Schneier, Jason Huffman, Jenny Hopkinson and Catherine Boudreau FDA FINDS PLENTY OF SALMONELLA IN CUCUMBERS: The FDA on Tuesday shared some concerning news buried in an update on a...
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With Bees In Trouble, Almond Farmers Try Trees That Don't Need 'Em
Beekeepers flock from all over the country to California every February and March to watch billions of honeybees buzz around the state's almond trees. Eighty percent of the country's commercial bees...
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Protestors turn a federal offshore oil auction into a circus
About 150 activists disrupted a federal auction for offshore oil and gas leases on Wednesday at the New Orleans’ Superdome, taking over what’s normally a sedate meeting to make a statement against...
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Big Food Caves to Tiny Vermont on GMO Labels Ahead of July Law
The second-smallest U.S. state is forcing a big change in the food industry. Kellogg Co., Conagra Foods Inc. and Mars Inc. all announced this week that they will start putting labels on all products...
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Opinion: Farm policy is essential to maintaining ag production in the U.S.
Opinion: Farm policy is essential to maintaining ag production in the U.S. By Guest Author © Copyright Agri-Pulse Communications, Inc. By: Lorraine Greco If there is one place that, in recent years,...
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Protestors plan demonstrations at two California Chipotles
Advocates plan protests for high noon Thursday at two Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurants in California to raise awareness about what they say are food safety problems at Taylor Farms, which supplies...
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Even if GMOs are safe, mandatory labeling is a good idea
In November 2015 the FDA approved the first genetically engineered salmon as fit for human consumption, paving the way for genetically modified organisms to become a regular part of the American diet....
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Want to Start a New American Farmstead? There’s a School for That.
Jes Scribner studied graphic design after high school, but couldn’t see herself pitching designs to businesses all day. After dropping out to work on a goat farm in Rhode Island, she realized that she...
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Grit and grace: Female Farmer Project reinvents traditional image of farming
FARMER JANYA VERANTH has updates for Audra Mulkern. Penny the sow, a newborn pink piglet when Mulkern visited Redfeather Farm in Duvall last year, has turned out to be a fabulous mother. “Come out, pig...
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Gerber recalls baby food nationwide because of spoilage risk
A packaging defect that could cause baby food in pouches to spoil spurred Gerber Products Co. to recall four batches of “Organic 2nd Foods” because of safety concerns. The company is offering consumers...
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Navina Khanna Unites Political Forces in the Name of Food
F&W is thrilled to partner on a new series about the American Food System with the award-winning CivilEats.com, run by Naomi Starkman and Twilight Greenaway. Here, the site's expert contributors...
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Tom has been at MoJo since 2011. His award-winning writing on food politics has appeared in numerous publications, and he was a cofounder in 2004 of Maverick Farms in Valle Crucis, North Carolina. He...
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These 27 Solutions Could Help The U.S. Slash Food Waste
By now, you probably know that Americans waste a lot of food. Each year, an estimated 133 billion pounds of food that farmers grow never makes it to our plates. That's enough to fill 44 skyscrapers....
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