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A Start-Up That Aims to Bring Back the Farm-to-Vase Bouquet
Where Christina Stembel lives in California, she is surrounded by flower farmers, yet 80 percent of the flowers sold in the United States are imported. She is trying to help change that percentage with...
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Good Earth Egg Company, LLC of Bonne Terre, Missouri has announced a voluntary recall of its shell eggs because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause...
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3 No-Cook Pasta Sauces You Should Have Up Your Sleeve at All Times
Skip the stove and toss together one of these three pasta crowd pleasers. They’re not just simple, quick, and endlessly customizable: They’re about to become your new favorite ways to top linguine,...
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Editor’s Note: Food is Political
Recently, a colleague asked me for a “food movement primer,” a sort of what-you-need-to-know about the world of food policy today. I recommended reading our stories, of course. And I also put together...
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What the Hunter-Gatherers from ‘In Defense of Food’ Can Teach Us About Our Diets
There’s a memorable scene in the documentary In Defense of Food that could change the way some Americans look at food. In it, a group of hunters from the Hadza tribe in Tanzania are tracking a kudu, a...
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Real Food Right Now and How to Cook It: Dates
Dried dates are easy to pass by. Their appearance, dark and shriveled, maybe even a bit dusty looking, is not alluring. The recipes we associate with them – most often stuffed with a bit of nut or blue...
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Watch Full Episodes Online of In Defense of Food on PBS
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." With that seven-word maxim, US-based journalist Michael Pollan distills a career’s worth of reporting into a prescription for reversing the damage being done to...
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I was wrong about veganism. Let them eat meat (but farm it right)
This will not be an easy column to write. I am about to put down 1,200 words in support of a book that starts by attacking me and often returns to this sport. But it has persuaded me that I was wrong....
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Labor Gains: Tracing the History of the Fair-Food Movement
When Julia de la Cruz moved to the United States in 2006, she landed, as many migrants do, in a farm field. The Mexican native, who had chosen Florida because of the state’s long growing season and...
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Not Your Dad’s Farm Job: Millennials Look to High-Tech Farms For Careers
“I thought about what it is about food that I love. It’s where it comes from,” Barnett recalls. He also recognized that he could have an impact at the farm level, where he saw the most challenges. “Our...
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Monsanto, US, & Gates Foundation pressure Kenya to reverse GMO ban
The growing African nation banned imports of GMO products in 2012, but a recent application by Monsanto’s Kenyan subsidiary could open the door to the controversial "seeds". Last year, Kenyans took to...
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Uncle Sam Will Finally Let Your SNAP Benefits Go Toward a CSA Share
A recent change in the Farm Bill allows SNAP beneficiaries to go the subscription-agriculture route. The very thing that makes the community supported agriculture model a boon for farmers—customers pay...
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The hidden drugs in your favorite supplements
When you take a prescription drug in the United States, you can be reasonably sure of what's in it. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires that all pharmaceuticals be thoroughly tested in...
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Can Chipotle’s farm-to-fork approach be sustained?
Locally grown produce, prepared fresh in restaurants—that’s a big part of what Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc.’s identity is all about. But after two foodborne illness outbreaks, a tumbling share price and...
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Farming Frogs to Save Them From Extinction
The Central American nation—which is home to hundreds of unique frogs found nowhere else on Earth—has already lost several species to extinction over the past 20 years. The cause is a deadly pathogen...
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Food and Farming Awards
BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme is calling on people in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to nominate their favourite producers, workplace cooks, local markets and food heroes. The panel...
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Scientists, Give Up Your Emails
IN recent months, the Obama administration has been locked in a battle with Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, who...
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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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2015: The Beginning of a Paradigm Shift for Big Food and Agriculture?
Today’s big food and agriculture companies work hard to protect their images. Companies like Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, and Monsanto spend a lot of time and money diverting attention away from negative...
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