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A nutrition program California should stop starving now
Last year, California passed a modest bill that should have been a no-brainer. The California Nutrition Incentives Act set up a program to discount fruits and vegetables for CalFresh shoppers at...
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Fish eat plastic like teens eat fast food, researchers say
Young fish become hooked on eating plastic in the seas in the same way that teenagers prefer unhealthy fast food, Swedish researchers have said. Their study, reported in Science, found exposure to high...
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The Search For Tastier Supermarket Tomatoes: A Tale In Three Acts
One of my fondest childhood memories is of eating tomatoes. We picked them in the garden and ate them in sandwiches, sitting on a picnic table under the trees outside our house. That juicy, acidic...
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This Subsidized Bus Service is Helping Flint Residents Get to Grocery Stores
Before Flint, Michigan became synonymous with poisoned water, residents had another major health concern: limited access to healthy foods. Residents were shocked in the spring of 2015 when two of...
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Council to stop spraying parks with health risk weed killer
A council has announced it is going to stop spraying its parks with weedkiller that has been linked with health fears. It comes after nearly 500 people signed a petition urging Hammersmith & Fulham...
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Meet the man who changed the way the U.S. fights poverty abroad
What should we pay for with our foreign aid? In recent history, the American answer to that question has been simple — “health programs.” But then Obama named Raj Shah head of the United States Agency...
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Cheddar - Cheddar is live now — at New York Stock Exchange.
Beautiful day by Beebe LakeCornell Alumni Association3,055 Views 1:30:00Radical Marketing: How to Rise Above the Noise with Vincent DignanNasdaq Entrepreneurial Center4,885 Views 22:41Lunch on Thurston...
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EPA: Widely used weedkiller atrazine is risk to birds, mammals, fish
The second-most widely used weedkiller in the country, atrazine, poses potential chronic risk to birds, mammals and fish due to runoff and spray drift, said a draft ecological-risk assessment by the...
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Long fight ahead on atrazine
With help from Jenny Hopkinson, Helena Bottemiller Evich, Ben Weyl and Angelica LaVito LONG FIGHT AHEAD ON ATRAZINE: The EPA’s draft risk assessment on the widely sprayed weed killer atrazine that says...
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The media have reached a turning point in covering Donald Trump. He may not...
The news media have come in for a lot of criticism in the way they’ve reported this election, which makes it exactly like every other election. But something may have changed just in the last few days....
View ArticleBrown & Haley Expands Voluntary Recall of Mountain Thins “Trail Mix”...
sweets@brown-haley.com 1-800-426-8400 ext. 3085John Melin 253-620-3036 View Product Photos Brown & Haley of Tacoma, Washington is taking the precautionary measure of expanding its voluntary recall...
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How to Grow a New Generation of Farmers: Forgive Their Student Loans
With total student loan debt nearing $1.4 billion and the average recent college graduate owing $30,000 in loans, plenty of young Americans are having a tough time making ends meet after earning a...
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The "Farm Crisis" Myth
There’s a lot of doom and gloom in the air about the state of the farm economy. As commodity prices continue to fall from the historic highs of the last few years, advocates for the agriculture...
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Are Farmers Markets Really as Expensive as Everyone Says?
No one is going to correct you if you say that the farmers market is an expensive place to shop. It's so widely assumed that it's taken for fact—and a quick breeze through a market might even...
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Food Tank’s Summer 2016 Reading List
This week, Food Tank has hand picked 16 books that educate, inform, and inspire us in a wide range of topics. They highlight the ethics of what we eat and why we choose to eat some things over others,...
View ArticleThings to Know: The Obama Administration's Sodium Guidelines
From cheese to sliced turkey, the Obama administration is encouraging food companies and restaurants to lower the amount of salt in the foods they sell. If the effort is successful, most Americans...
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Real Food Right Now and How to Cook It: Radishes
I'm pretty sure I fell in love with radishes on a visit to France, years ago. I was staying with my boyfriend-at-the-time's family in a little town northeast of Bordeaux called Saint-Aigulin. I say...
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Why So Many People Are Looking Up Turmeric Recipes
The ranking of avant-garde foods of the moment reads like a 18th-century shepherd’s grocery list: oats, cheese curds, and sourdough bread. That’s according to this year’s Google Food Trends report, for...
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Erin Fairbanks is Broadcasting Food System Change, Live From Brooklyn
The number of Heritage Radio Network listeners has increased over 700% since 2013. Erin Fairbanks never expected to have a career in food, but a series of well-chosen food gigs helped her land a role...
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