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Keep America Growing
Farm Aid works year-round to build a system of agriculture that values family farmers, good food, soil and water, and strong communities. Our annual concert celebrates farmers, eaters and music coming...
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Can We Eat Meat and Still Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
Our global food production system—which includes, in addition to crop farming, raising livestock and deforesting lands to grow livestock feed and other crops—is responsible for about a quarter of the...
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Can the Paris agreement protect poor farmers from climate change?
BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Purity Gachanga is one small-scale farmer who is beating climate change. On her several acres of land in Embu North district in central Kenya, she keeps cows...
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Planting New Farmers for the Future of Food
There are more than two million farmers in the United States, but most of our food is produced by fewer than one in 10—and their average age, according to federal statistics, is 57. The proportion of...
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How Vegans and Vegetarians Are Redefining Butcher Culture
In the back room of the Herbivorous Butcher, Kale Walch garbs himself in a bright white apron and cocked black hat, ready to literally make some bacon. Using an oversized rolling pin to flatten a hunk...
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Renewables poised to surge after Paris Agreement
Historically, the transition from one energy system to another, as from wood to coal or coal to oil, has proven an enormously complicated process, requiring decades to complete. In similar fashion, it...
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Move over, Monsanto: The pesticide and GMO seed industry just spawned a new...
US chemical titans Dow and DuPont have agreed to a $130 billion merger. Once combined, DowDuPont (as it will be known) intends to split into three parts, including one devoted solely to agriculture....
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The Final Night at Danny Meyer's Original Union Square Cafe
Danny Meyer's first restaurant, Union Square Cafe, introduced New Yorkers to a blend of Italian and American cuisines that's still popular today. The restaurant also helped popularize the notion that a...
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North Carolina town bans solar for fear it will "suck up all the energy...
Something odd is going down in the Old North State. Once the relatively blue island in a sea of red, North Carolina underwent a conservative takeover in 2012, which led to the introduction of some...
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Why the “Non-GMO” Label on Tropicana OJ Means Less than it Seems
PepsiCo’s Tropicana Pure Premium will start carrying a label early next year notifying shoppers that the orange juice does not contain genetically modified organisms. That might seem like a big win for...
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New FSIS Guidelines Seek Better Beef Tracking and Cleaner Poultry
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is not usually thought of as a quick-moving policy shop. But, in the past two days, the agency has posted new guidelines for poultry processors to...
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These $10 Vouchers are Changing the Face of D.C.’s Farmers’ Markets
These days, Beatrice Evans finds herself talking to her neighbors on the bus more than usual while she’s commuting to her part-time job at a telemarketing firm. She doesn’t just make conversation with...
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In Flint, Mich., there’s so much lead in children’s blood that a state of...
For months, worried parents in Flint, Mich., arrived at their pediatricians’ offices in droves. Holding a toddler by the hand or an infant in their arms, they all have the same question: Are their...
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OPINION: Don’t be fooled by the food industry’s Smart Labels
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A Timeline of Chipotle’s Five Outbreaks
The multistate E. coli outbreak linked to Chipotle that began in October has garnered extensive national coverage, but it’s just one of five outbreaks the “fast casual” restaurant chain has had to deal...
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As Boston College Students Recover, Chipotle Enters the 'Fiasco Vortex'
Except for one unpleasant aspect — the lingering diarrhea — norovirus is known for coming on fast and then quickly burning out. For at least 136 victims, almost all Boston College students, their 24 to...
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Investigation Reveals Fig & Olive’s Kitchen Relies On Pre-Made Meal...
When you order truffle risotto at an upscale restaurant—the kind that lists local farms at the top of its menu—you might expect that the dish is prepared fresh, from-scratch in the kitchen. But at Fig...
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A climate for French wine, as the world grows hotter
PARIS – Jean-Marc Touzard, an economist at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, watched the climate change conference with interest and anticipation last week. He leads an...
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The State of Food: Part I
Mark Bittman, a sixty-five-year-old born-and-raised New Yorker, currently resides in Berkeley, arguably the capital of California cuisine. As a columnist and food writer for the New York Times, Bittman...
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‘Hangry’? Want a Slice of ‘Piecaken’? The Top New Food Words for 2015
The language of food is changing at breakneck speed to reflect new menus, new mash-ups, new diets, new hashtags. “We need new words and labels to give voice to our food obsessions and anxieties,” said...
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