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Chipotle plans $50 million ad blitz amidst expanded federal criminal...
Characterizing a string of foodborne illness outbreaks as an “unfortunate set of events,” Chipotle Mexican Grill’s founder Steve Ells reported the chain’s net income dropped 44 percent in the last...
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Are Bee-Killing Pesticides Impacting Our Health?
Neonicotinoids—the world’s most widely used and fastest growing type of insecticide—have been at the center of the conversation about bee die-offs for several years. Even the U.S. Environmental...
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Publisher's Platform: Could Announcing 1 E. coli Outbreak Prevented...
Yesterday, with the announcement of an expended criminal investigation and slumping sales, combined with a stock price creeping slightly back up from the bottom after a multi-billion dollar free fall,...
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WTF happened to golden rice?
Like the hover boards of the Back to the Future franchise, golden rice is an old idea that looms just beyond the grasp of reality. "This Rice Could Save a Million Kids a Year," announced a Time...
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Introducing Ben & Jerry’s Non-Dairy!
You dared us to go dairyless — and we did! Ben & Jerry’s Non-Dairy flavor creations are made with almond milk & so boldly loaded with chunks & swirls that you’ll get Ben & Jerry’s...
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It all Began with a Football: How the Super Bowl Shaped the Chicken Industry
On January 15, 1967, the Green Bay Packers faced off against the Kansas City Chiefs in the very first Super Bowl. On that day, few of the estimated 51 million fans gathered around their television...
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Review reveals problems protecting workers from pesticides
BELLE GLADE, Fla. (AP) — Dozens of farmworkers looked up at the little yellow plane buzzing over the Florida radish field, a mist of pesticide falling from its wings. Farmworkers are supposed to be...
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The Problems With Food Media That Nobody Wants to Talk About
In 2013, Time magazine published its infamous “Gods of Food” issue, which immediately drew ire from food writers who were dismayed by its wholesale disregard for female chefs. Their outrage was...
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A progressive year-long storytelling effort of the Obama Administration’s work on behalf of those living, working and raising families in rural America
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Nestlé admits slavery in Thailand while fighting child labour lawsuit in...
It’s hard to think of an issue that you would less like your company to be associated with than modern slavery. Yet last November Nestlé, the world’s largest foodmaker and one of the most recognisable...
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The 2016 Piglet Tournament of Cookbooks is Here!
For those of you who’ve been waiting: We very much hope to reward your patience on the 25th of February, when the first day of Piglet play officially begins. Until now, tide yourselves with the...
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40 years of science: Organic ag key to feeding the world
By Sylvia Kantor, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University researchers have concluded that feeding a growing global population with...
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Will climate change move agriculture indoors? And will that be a good thing?
As climate change does its thing to America, what it is going to do to the nation’s food supply is still an open question. Will California’s Central Valley, which grows a third of the produce eaten in...
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U.S. food industry workers are pretty forked over
Food service is not easy. I learned this lesson at 16, when I got my first job at a local Mexican restaurant known as Taco Bell — a job that lasted approximately three hours before I handed in my...
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Organic Agriculture Is Key to Helping Feed the World Sustainably
Organic agriculture is a relatively untapped resource for feeding the Earth’s population, especially in the face of climate change and other global challenges. That’s the conclusion my doctoral...
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Renewables Top Fossil Fuels as Biggest Source of New U.S. Power
Renewable energy was the biggest source of new power added to U.S. electrical grids last year as falling prices and government incentives made wind and solar increasingly viable alternatives to fossil...
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Comment now on country of origin labeling requirements Down Under
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) is accepting comments and suggestions that it calls “submissions” until March 4 at 6 p.m. Canberra time on planned changes for country of origin labeling...
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Football fans face formidable threat during Golden Game
When the Kansas City Chiefs faced off with the Green Bay Packers in the first Super Bowl fifty years ago, tickets to the big game cost $12 and the average price for a visit to the doctor was $6.60,...
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Consumer survey shows changing definition of food safety
A recent survey of 5,000 consumers nationwide that asked about food buying decisions showed changing attitudes about food safety. People still want toxin-free and pathogen-free food, but they also want...
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This Company Might be Setting a New Bar for Transparency in Food
About three hours outside of Lahore, Pakistan, Malik Anwaar (pictured below) and his son spend their days mining pink rock salt from a local mine. They use hand-turned equipment and techniques that...
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