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Hillary Clinton's Elixir: Can A Hot Pepper A Day Boost Immunity?
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Canadian officials investigating 4-month Listeria outbreak
The Public Health Agency of Canada is collaborating with federal and provincial public health partners to investigate an outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections in five provinces. To date, the...
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All the News That's Fit to Eat: $130 Million Food Waste Fight, Re-branding...
Here’s the food policy news you need to know this week. Rockefeller Foundation to Announce $130 Million to Reduce Food Waste (New York Times) The Rockefeller Foundation plans to announce at the World...
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In Iowa farm town, immigration debate yields surprising views
For the longest time, life was comfortably familiar in this amiable farm community. Then, about 20 years ago, a flood of immigrants came to work in the town’s big meat-packing plant. The change was...
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Google Doodle Honors Wilbur Scoville, Who Measured a Pepper's Heat
Jan. 22 would be the 151st birthday of Wilbur Scoville, the American pharmacist who devised the standard measurement of a pepper’s spiciness. Google is honoring him with an interactive Google Doodle...
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The Eight-Second Attention Span
This weekend, I’m going to the Mojave Desert, deep into an arid wilderness of a half-million acres, for some stargazing, bouldering and January sunshine on my public lands. I won’t be out of contact. I...
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A More Humane Way to Wean Farm Animals
On most beef farms and ranches, calves are weaned from their mother when they’re around six months old. The tiny animals are introduced to a new diet, a new environment, and they have to learn new...
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A Cooking Class Where New Immigrants Learn The Recipe For English
For many immigrants, coming to America is full of the unfamiliar — from the language to the food. In Philadelphia, a program aims to help these arrivals settle into their new country by folding English...
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Why Poverty May Be More Relevant Than Race For Childhood Obesity
As researchers have searched for ways to explain the childhood obesity epidemic in the U.S., many have posited that a child's race or ethnicity alone can put them at greater risk of becoming overweight...
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Danny Meyer-Backed Company Wants to Be the Kayak.com of Food Delivery
In the year 2020 dine-in restaurants will become obsolete, replaced by microkitchens that exist solely to fuel a never-ending procession of food delivery services. Or so it would seem, given the...
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The Blizzard of 2016 Has Begun. Here’s What to Expect, City by City.
This is it. This is the storm. Our readers have christened the storm #DavidSnowie for obvious reasons, but for the Washington, D.C. area, this will truly be the Blizzard of the Century if the latest...
View ArticleDole Fresh Vegetables Announces Voluntary Withdrawal for Salads
800-356-3111 818-874-4647 View Product Photos Dole Fresh Vegetables, Inc., is temporarily suspending operations at its Springfield, Ohio production facility, and is voluntarily withdrawing from the...
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Dole Salad Recalled After Listeria Kills 1, Sickens 12
Health officials have finally traced an outbreak of Listeria that sickened 12 people and killed one to a Dole facility that makes bagged salads in Ohio. People should throw away any salad that came...
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Food industry mounts last-ditch effort to block state GMO labeling laws
WASHINGTON — The nation’s food and farm industries are mounting a furious, last-ditch push against mandatory labeling of foods made with genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, with dozens of...
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Blizzard 2016 Live Blog: The Storm Is Bigger Than Expected, and It’s Just...
8:20 a.m. ET: A roundup of impacts so far: In Kentucky, the Associated Press reports the Red Cross is providing aid to a group of perhaps "thousands" of motorists stranded in a massive 35 mile long...
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10 Farmer Training Programs Helping Veterans Heal
As the global farmer population ages, it is imperative that new farmers are recruited and trained to feed the world’s growing population. Programs across the United States are looking to one...
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This Writer Cut Out Processed Foods for a Year. Here’s What She Learned.
Say you’re making spaghetti and red sauce and you want to avoid eating processed foods. Which of these would you choose? 1. A jar of a branded sauce dubbed “Organic Traditional,” with an extensive “all...
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Life in Syntropy
"Life in Syntropy" is the new short film from Agenda Gotsch made specially to be presented at COP21 - Paris. This film put together some of the most remarkable experiences in Syntropic Agriculture,...
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Can Large, Corporate Urban Farms Grow 'Local Food'?
Under the glass-and-metal canopy of a sprawling greenhouse in Yardley, Pennsylvania, BrightFarms is growing salad greens. A lot of salad greens. Arugula and herbs and the occasional tomato–about...
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