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This Is How Presidential Candidates Can Get Iowa Votes (and Much More)
In the last few days before next week’s caucuses, presidential candidates are busily making their case to the citizens of Iowa. My wife and I lived and raised a family in that beautiful state over 28...
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Step Inside a Citrus Grove in a Geothermal Nebraska Greenhouse (VIDEO)
High on the Nebraska plains, there’s a citrus grove with trees holding up a canopy of lemons, grapefruit-sized oranges, green figs, and bunches of grapes. Yes, it’s indoors. And it’s only possible...
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All the News That's Fit to Eat: The #FightFor15 in Iowa, Locol Opens in...
Get yourself up to date on the week’s food news. President Obama Wants More Funds To Feed Low-Income Kids In Summer (National Public Radio) Next month, President Obama will propose in his 2017 budget...
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The Perfect Storm That Threatens the Quality of Healthy School Meals
Chef Ann Cooper is a celebrated author, chef, educator and enduring advocate for better food for all children. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Ann has been a chef for more than 30...
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The crazy sequence of events that’s making almonds cheap again
Almonds, the beloved snack that recently overtook peanuts as the most consumed nut in America, might have gotten a little too popular for their own good. After years of steady price increases, thanks...
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Activists Demand A Bill Of Rights For California Farm Workers
Farm workers in two of the nation's most important agricultural counties joined other low-wage food sector workers on Wednesday, demanding better wages with a new Bill of Rights. The thrust of the...
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German Forest Ranger Finds That Trees Have Social Networks, Too
HÜMMEL, Germany — IN the deep stillness of a forest in winter, the sound of footsteps on a carpet of leaves died away. Peter Wohlleben had found what he was looking for: a pair of towering beeches....
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8 Battleground States in the GMO Food Labeling Fight
Food Genetically Engineered Foods Politics Facebook Twitter E-mail Print LinkedIn Pinterest Google+ StumbleUpon Tumblr Reddit Buffer As the food fight over the labeling of genetically modified...
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6 Questions You Should Be Asking Your Fishmonger
If you have felt apprehensive upon approaching the fish counter—whether you don't have much experience cooking fish or you just made eye contact with a finned fellow lying there on the ice—you're not...
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FDA bans imports of genetically engineered salmon
Genetically engineered salmon won't be hitting U.S. dinner tables anytime soon. Two months after federal regulators approved the nation's first genetically engineered salmon for human consumption, the...
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Scientists Are Building A Case For How Food Ads Make Us Overeat
Why is it that we haven't seen ads for cigarettes on television since the Nixon administration? Because public health officials said the ads caused people to smoke more and raised their risk of getting...
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Garden of Life recalls powdered drink mix linked to Salmonella outbreak
State officials have linked Raw Meal Organic Shake & Meal powdered mixes to a multi-state Salmonella outbreak and Garden of Life LLC has recalled multiple products. Officials with the Palm Beach...
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Coca-Cola invites the internet to use its branded GIF maker, trolls arrive...
New Time and again, we see legacy brands attempting to court millennials online with hashtag-centric, participatory social media marketing campaigns. And time and again, we see those same campaigns get...
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Idaho defines cottage foods; food safety unaddressed
Idaho activists have won their fight to “unchain the cupcake” gaining approval from two state legislative committees that agreed this month to define cottage foods and require such home cookin’ to be...
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Editorial: Why don't candidates talk about food?
The first-in-the nation caucuses are held in one of the world’s great agricultural centers, yet presidential candidates almost never discuss issues around food. The closest we’ve come this cycle is a...
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Dear Future President: Be a Hero—Replace Perennial Problems with Perennial...
The presidential horse race is currently dominating the front pages of newspapers in Iowa (and beyond). After next week’s Iowa caucuses, however, the Iowa press will most certainly return to the usual...
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The Zika virus: a "virgin soil" epidemic
By Peter C. Doherty January 30th 2016 With news that the Zika virus is “spreading explosively” throughout the Americas, much of the medical community, including the World Health Organization, remains...
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The True Inside Story of How a College Professor Sells Out to Monsanto
Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, we now know the extent to which U.S. academics have been quietly supporting the food giant's propaganda. Former University of Illinois food science professor...
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