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No, Lettuce Is Not Worse For The Environment Than Bacon
If you follow the intersection of food and climate change, you know that you can barely swing a reusable grocery bag these days without running into a new study or article bemoaning the environmental...
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The only way to save your beloved bananas might be genetic engineering
Bananas have reached such all-star status in the American diet that we now consume more of them than apples every year. Yet you're probably used to seeing just one type of banana at your supermarket:...
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Farmers must disclose field locations in GMO settlement
Farmers who don’t want to remove genetically engineered alfalfa crops in Oregon’s Jackson County must submit their field locations to attorneys representing biotech critics. They will also have to...
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Millet: How A Trendy Ancient Grain Turned Nomads Into Farmers
Millet isn't just one grain but, rather, a ragbag group of small-seeded grasses. Hardy, gluten-free and nutritious, millet has become an "it" grain in recent years. billy1125/Flickr hide caption Like...
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How will Midwest farmers prepare for the impact of climate change?
You can bet the farm that climate change is happening — and that it will change the way we approach agriculture. For example, here’s the climate science forecast for Illinois 20 to 40 years from now:...
View ArticlePairing Meat with Climate Change at COP21
Imagine that you attended Paris COP21, the monumental climate change conference. You were hungry but didn’t want to eat meat. A meat-free option was easy to find, right? Not so, as Dr. Ronnie Neff, a...
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How to get rid of Christmas garbage, from lights to mistletoe
What is the appropriate way to discard Christmas lights that no longer work? ‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through LA, decoration disposal questions threatened to spoil the day … I could go...
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Merry Christmas, everyone! We got ourselves a tepid bath of a planet
Merry Christmas! How’s the weather where you are? Let me guess: Is it weird? I bet it’s weird. This holiday season has seen 70 degree days in Boston and tornadoes in the South, and it’s actually warmer...
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Don't toss those candycanes: Fun ways to cook up leftover Christmas food
Thanksgiving leftovers are almost as popular as Thanksgiving dinner itself. The lauded next-day Thanksgiving sandwich reached peak popularity nearly 20 years ago in an episode of Friends titled “The...
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Why we can’t get our obesity crisis under control
Robert Paarlberg is an adjunct professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and author of “The United States of Excess: Gluttony and the Dark Side of American Exceptionalism.”...
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Bt Cotton, Remarkable Success, and Four Ugly Facts
Of all the crops and countries in GMO controversies today, few are as important than Bt cotton in India. GMO debates keep going back to small farmers and developing countries, and India has by far the...
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Weekend Reading: Food Wars
What’s so terrific about this book is its basis in theory applied to real-world, cross-cutting food issues involving government, business, and civil society. The authors emphasize the need for all of...
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California's Largest Tribe Bans GMO Crops and Genetically-Engineered Salmon
The Yurok Tribe—California’s largest tribe with roughly 5,000 enrolled members—passed a historic ban on genetically modified (GMOs) crops and salmon. The Yurok Tribal Council unanimously voted on Dec....
View ArticleEastern Oregon farms boost organic acreage
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Publisher’s Platform: Restaurant Rising
Were I the CEO of a 1,900-store restaurant chain with 45,000 employees (with a CEO-to-worker pay ratio of 1522:1), and just had six foodborne illness outbreaks in six months, what would I do this...
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Follow the Honey: 7 Ways Pesticide Companies Are Spinning the Bee Crisis
Michele Simon is a public health lawyer specializing in food industry marketing and lobbying tactics and author of Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines our Health and How to Fight...
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Healthy kids are common sense, not a trend
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U.S. Farms Becoming Less Diverse Over Time
Jennifer Balmer, PhD is a biologist and freelance science writer based in Charleston, SC. Her work reporting on the intersection of conservation, health, and sustainability, has appeared in Science,...
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Sign the petition: Tell the next president to fix our broken food system
Our food system is out of balance, and it’s time to take action. Current food policies prioritize corporate interests at the expense of our health, the environment, and working families. This has led...
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The Best Butter for the Job
Salted. Unsalted. Whipped. Cultured. "European." What if you just want to make some pie crust? There are pie crusts to be rolled, biscuits to be baked and turkey skin to be crisped, and none of it...
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