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James Beard Foundation
Thanks for joining us for the 2016 Book, Broadcast, and Journalism Awards! Here's the full list of tonight's winners. Congratulations to all! The JBF Book, Broadcast & Journalism Awards are...
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Pilgrim’s Pride recalls 4.5 million pounds of chicken products
Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. is recalling more than 4.5 million pounds of fully cooked chicken products after consumer complaints and federal confirmation that they contain extraneous material including metal...
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GM mosquito firm investigated by lawyers as share price plummets
Investment analysts say Oxitec’s GM mosquito technology “won’t work, is way too expensive, and is many years from generating even minuscule revenue”. Now three law firms have announced they are...
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EFSA wants to review the chemical BPA, again
A new report on the chemical compound Bisphenol A (BPA) has forced the EFSA, the EU’s food safety watchdog, to review the effects of the chemical on human health once more. EFSA, which carries out...
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Teach, train, test, repeat -- food safety refreshers a must
It’s just human nature … people forget. Consequently, unless food handlers receive proper followup reviews and reinforcement, retention of food safety protocols and procedures is unlikely. To ensure...
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Worldwide human and economic costs of norovirus are huge
Leave it to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to put a price tag on the worldwide cost of norovirus. After a CDC-sponsored symposium in February, scientists and experts calculated...
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Should We Be Farming More Fish in the Great Lakes?
Jeff Butzow’s display cases at Fish Lads in the downtown market in Grand Rapids, Michigan are filled with about 40 varieties of fresh and wild-caught fish from all around the country: halibut from...
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The most important Congressional bill no one is talking about
You probably haven't heard much about it with the presidential election sucking up all the oxygen, but US lawmakers are mulling one of the nation's most important and influential pieces of food...
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Dannon Announces Breakthrough Sweeping Commitment for Sustainable...
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The nation’s leading yogurt maker, Dannon, today announced a pledge to its farmers, retail customers and consumers to further improve sustainable agriculture...
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Let your kids use sharp knives and hot stoves
Would you let your 2-year-old use a chef’s knife? Many people think that sounds not just dangerous, but insane. However, that’s what my friend J.M. Hirsch, a prominent food writer and cookbook author,...
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We Need to Stop Treating Naturopaths Like They’re Medical Doctors
On April 26, David and Collet Stephan, the Alberta couple who treated their sick toddler with horseradish and onion smoothies for two weeks, were found guilty of failing to provide the necessaries of...
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'Nurse, Spy, Cook:' How Harriet Tubman Found Freedom Through Food
Harriet Tubman, who will soon be the first African-American to grace a U.S. currency note, spent her whole adult life raising money either to rescue slaves or help them start life afresh on free soil....
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The Happiness Stand
We built a Happiness Stand to show people the truth about soda. That it isn’t happiness. It’s just sugar, water… and a billion dollars in advertising. #ShareHonesty today.
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We run a rolling series of webinars on key food issues. If you have issues you would like us to cover or would be willing to present at a webinar we organise on your behalf, please do get in touch. For...
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Spring Seasonal Food Pairings
Spring is finally here, and we're so excited to hit the farmers' market to pick up some seasonal goodies to eat. My spring go-tos are roasted asparagus, lots and lots of spring lettuce salads (maybe...
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Do you eat? Then you should care about agriculture policy.
Even though only 2 percent of Americans live on farms in 2016, agricultural policy remains extremely important. Why? Everyone has to eat. It is unsettling to observe that, while Iowa's caucuses in...
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Palm oil production is also responsible for human rights violations as corporations often forcefully remove Indigenous Peoples and rural communities from their lands. Tragically, child labor and modern...
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Does 'treat' food always have to be unhealthy?
25 April 2016 The UK is in the grip of a childhood obesity epidemic. One in three children is overweight or obese by the time they finish school and the cost of treatment is threatening to bankrupt the...
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India's drought migrants head to cities in desperate search for water
No one in the slum of Murtinagar wants to play with Temri and Chinna. The brother and sister don’t speak the local Hindi or Marathi languages – they came here, to Mumbai, India’s financial capital, 10...
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Greenhouse in the sky: inside Europe's biggest urban farm
At the top of an empty 1950s office block that once belonged to the Dutch telecommunications powerhouse Philips, above an abandoned reception desk and six floors of vacant office space, is a shock of...
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