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AP Explore: Seafood from slaves
The Burmese slaves sat on the floor and stared through the rusty bars of their locked cage, hidden on a tiny tropical island thousands of miles from home. Just a few yards away, other workers loaded...
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Tell PepsiCo: No Exploitation for Snack Food!
The ecological devastation of Conflict Palm Oil is evident: we know that palm oil, found in half of all packaged goods in your local grocery store, is driving the extinction of Sumatran orangutans,...
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Local Foods and Urban-Rural Divide
The recent resurgence in local foods is a trend that we’ve been watching closely at UC Food Observer. Over the last year, we’ve spoken with farmers, food activists, journalists, professors and policy...
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Food+Tech SF Meetup
Featured Meetup 37.774929 -122.419418 Refund policy Food waste is an epidemic. From retailers rejecting "ugly produce", to restaurants discarding excess food, to eaters throwing out spoiled goods,...
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Cities that steal smart ideas from plants and animals
With soaring glass skyscrapers and swaths of concrete, modern cities often seem actively to work against nature, pushing it down and suppressing it rather than working alongside it. Yet a growing...
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How Farmers’ Markets Verify Producer Claims
Once upon a time, back in the 1980s, farmers’ markets were pure. Local farmers gathered in convenient public places to sell food directly to customers, bypassing faceless wholesalers and giant...
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These entrepreneurs are using technology to turn a profit on food waste
Food’s Wild West U.S. company Food Cowboy has developed an app that allows food companies to donate surplus food to nearby charities and organic waste to composters, farmers and biogas generators....
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Paul Aveyard, professor of behavioural medicine Derek Yach, executive director Anna B Gilmore, professor of public health Simon Capewell, professor of public health and policy 1Nuffield Department of...
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The $2 Trillion Project to Get Saudi Arabia’s Economy Off Oil
Early last year, at a royal encampment in the oasis of Rawdat Khuraim, Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia visited his uncle, King Abdullah, in the monarch’s final days before entering a...
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What we eat has bigger consequences for the planet than we ever thought
A new report has added to the growing body of research suggesting that what we eat has tremendous consequences for the planet — and the future of humanity. The paper, which was released Wednesday by...
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It’s Time for a Change in Food and Agriculture Education!
Food Trucks, new agricultural technologies, bug burgers and the resurgence of the farm-to-table movement. The food landscape is changing rapidly and this changing landscape demands new forms of food...
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The racist, twisted history of tipping
Fresh out of college and working as an unpaid intern for a San Francisco nonprofit, I paid the bills by moonlighting at an Indian restaurant in the Pacific Heights neighborhood. My hostess job entailed...
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McKnight Foundation: Investing for climate impact
In the world of philanthropy, the divestment movement is known as Divest-Invest. “Divest” has gotten most of the attention. “Invest” will make more of a difference. Divesting ownership of fossil fuel...
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Young Farmers Are Aiming to Change the Face of Local Farming
Two-thirds of farmers are over the age of 55 and white. But don't count young people out just yet. Richard Nixon's agriculture secretary in the early to mid-1970s was Earl Butz, a man best known for...
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Devon Gibson: Sprouting a Commitment to Food and Community
Devon Gibson wasn’t born with a lifelong desire to grow food. In fact, the 27-year-old tells a story about his only growing experience before working for Sprout, a thriving urban farm in Battle Creek,...
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Our gigantic problem with portions: why are we all eating too much?
If you want to see how inflated our portion sizes have become, don’t go to the supermarket – head to an antique shop. You spot a tiny goblet clearly designed for a doll, only to be told it is a “wine...
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Caution in Britain as U.S. greenlights CRISPR crops
Two gene-edited crops — white button mushrooms and “waxy” hybrid corn — are years from the market yet they already are creating turmoil in Britain over the use of gene-editing technology and the...
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Message to Bernie: There's Nothing Populist About Soda Pop
I love the Bern. I even feel the Bern occasionally. But I'm afraid he unwittingly stumbled into a sticky Big Soda trap last week when he declined to support the soda tax that Philadelphia's popular...
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The EPA Says 3 Common Pesticides Could Harm Nearly All Endangered Species
What do grizzly bears, gray wolves, California condors, and coho salmon have in common? All are protected by the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and all are likely to be harmed by three commonly used...
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Child obesity has grown unabated since 1999, study finds
A handful of preliminary studies in recent years has raised hopes the epidemic of U.S. child obesity has stabilized or reversed. But new research finds continued growth in our kids' girth, suggesting...
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