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6 New Food and Tech Startups You May Be Seeing More Of
A farmer, a neurologist, and a data analysist walk into a conference. What could be the start of a terrible joke is a list of just a few of the panelists I heard from at last week's MixingBowl...
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Adopt A Beehive
Beekeeper Nick French never knows what he'll find when he opens up his hives for the first spring inspections. Of the 40 hives he manages in Parker, Colo., French loses about one-quarter of his...
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The next big thing in American regional cooking: Humble Appalachia
‘It’s way easier to get drugs than a good greasy bean,” Travis Milton says, taking a deep drag on his cigarette. And that causes the chef a lot of headaches. For one, greasies are his favorite beans,...
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North Antelope Rochelle on edge, as Peabody Energy informs some not to report...
Some employees at Peabody Energy’s North Antelope Rochelle Mine were told Tuesday not to report to work later this week, raising the possibility of layoffs at the nation’s largest coal mine. The...
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Opposition to Fracking Mounts in the U.S.
Opposition to fracking rises to 51% from 40% in 2015 Drop in fracking mirrors Americans' turn away from nuclear energy Republicans fuel drop in support for fracking WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Opposition to...
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Jonathan Gold on Sustainability, Food Tribalism, and Eating...
Jonathan Gold has long been known in culinary circles as the only food writer to have won a Pulitzer Prize. Now, the Los Angeles Times restaurant critic is the focus of a new documentary, City of Gold....
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How One Small State Is Forcing GMO Labeling Nationwide
When Vermont passed a law in 2014 that required all genetically engineered food sold in the state to be labeled by July 1, 2016, it likely had no idea it would force disclosure beyond its own borders....
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Real Food Films
We're open for submissions for our third year! Share your 4-minutes-or-less films on food, farming and sustainability by March 1, 2016 to be eligible to win prizes & distribution opportunities.
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The 2016 Candidates Don't Seem To Care About Our Food Supply
Last month, we noticed something. Though various media outlets have reported on how much the presidential candidates’ campaigns have spent on pizza and other fast food, we know little about where the...
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An unprecedented disaster is unfolding in the Great Barrier Reef
The scientists who study the Great Barrier Reef are shocked and horrified by what they're seeing right now. Record hot temperatures in the Pacific Ocean — driven by global warming and a powerful El...
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Lawsuit Challenges FDA’s Approval of Genetically Engineered Salmon
Lawsuit Challenges FDA’s Approval of Genetically Engineered Salmon March 31st, 2016 Coalition of Fishing, Consumer, and Environmental Groups Say First-ever Approval of Laboratory-Created Food Animal...
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2016 Global Food Policy Report: How We Feed the World is Unsustainable Land area the size of Nicaragua is lost due to drought and desertification every year, putting 200 million small-scale farmers in...
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Monsanto CEO: ‘Roundup Is Not A Carcinogen’
In the second part of Here & Now’s interview with Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant, host Jeremy Hobson asks the head of the agrochemical and biotech giant about its production of pesticides, which some...
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California lawmakers send Jerry Brown historic $15 minimum wage
California lawmakers moved swiftly to ratify a deal boosting the state minimum wage to $15, sending legislation to Gov. Jerry Brown just days after the governor announced a deal with labor leaders....
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Seven Women Who Made the World Better for Birds and People
When we hear the word “naturalist,” we often think of Charles Darwin and his theories, John Muir, the “Father of National Parks,” and of course, John James Audubon. But let’s not forget the women who...
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Arizona exempts potlucks, school veggies from food safety rules
Eating dangerously will be possible in Arizona by late July. Non-commercial potluck social events, exempt from food safety rules for food and beverages, will be legal outside the workplace. Gov. Doug...
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Deli employees report meat slicers not cleaned often enough
Managers and employees at more than half of the delis in a recent study reported the retail operations are failing to meet U.S. Food Code specifications because meat slicers are not cleaned often...
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CDC says deadly outbreak over; Dole, FDA silent on salad plant
Dole Food Co. and the FDA remain mum on the status of a salad processing facility linked to a deadly international Listeria outbreak, which began in May 2015 and wasn’t declared over until this week....
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Can you imagine your recipe being featured in a cookbook? Or representing your home state at a Kids’ “State Dinner” at the White House this summer? If so, First Lady Michelle Obama, the U.S. Department...
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Faroese Prime Minister claims whale hunt is regulated
The Faroese Prime Minister, Kaj Leo Holm Johannesen, has claimed that whaling in the islands is "sustainable and fully-regulated" in a statement issued in response to recent criticism of the continued...
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