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A lack of battery recycling could be hurting this important bacterium
Meet Shewanella oneidensis: This affable little bacterium, named after Lake Oneida near Syracuse New York, is a real stand-up member of Earth’s microbial ecosystem. It thrives in a wide range of...
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John Pantaya 562-220-2666 View Product Photos TF Foods of Paramount, CA is recalling its 10.60 ounce packages of "Fried Bean Snack (Na-Pia-Jo)" food treats because they may contain undeclared peanuts....
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Cover Crops, a Farming Revolution With Deep Roots in the Past
When Mark Anson came home with his hair on fire after a seminar on the seemingly soporific topic of soil health, his younger brother, Doug, was skeptical. What had Mark lit up was cover crops: fields...
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Hillary Clinton's Support for GMOs Confirmed by Gates Foundation
On Friday it was revealed that the global GMO promoters Cornell Alliance for Science, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, are giving Hillary Clinton as an example of one of the ‘powerful...
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6 Food Waste Myths Dispelled
Kristina is a San Francisco-based writer, focused on issues in rural life and agriculture. She was previously in the trenches of ag policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council, campaigning to...
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The Top 5 Food Problems Americans Want the Next President to Fix
Those who tuned in to the first round of presidential debates hoping to hear a discussion of food and nutrition were sorely disappointed. In fact, food has been largely absent from the entire race so...
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Eric Schlosser on the People Behind Our Food
When Eric Schlosser pitched Fast Food Nation to publishers in 1999, they balked. No one would buy a food book that didn’t include recipes, they said. Schlosser eventually found a publisher willing to...
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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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Climate activists target Pepsi ahead of Super Bowl halftime show
prev next By Tim Devaney - Climate protesters are taking aim at PepsiCo. ahead of the Super Bowl halftime show that the company is sponsoring. The Rainforest Action Network is protesting Pepsi’s “link...
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The Privilege of Wild Food
It was dawn in big swells, Block Island rising a few miles to the southwest, and a group of sport fishermen were standing pressed against the stern rails of a large charter boat, drifting on the tide....
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French law forbids food waste by supermarkets
France has become the first country in the world to ban supermarkets from throwing away or destroying unsold food, forcing them instead to donate it to charities and food banks. Under a law passed...
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Sustainable Chocolate Company Helps Cocoa Farmers, One Delicious Bar at a Time
Valentine's Day is upon us, which means that every time you walk into a grocery or drug store, you're confronted with a big heaping display of cheap chocolate from familiar brands like Hershey and...
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There’s Another Crisis In Flint You Haven’t Heard About
Flint, Michigan, has remained in the national media spotlight for weeks as the city struggles with the devastating fallout from the contamination of its drinking water -- with many outlets not quite...
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Warm Arctic winter stuns scientists with record low ice extent for January
Right about now, Arctic sea ice should be building up toward its annual maximum, making most of the region impenetrable to all but the most hardened icebreakers. Instead, January and indeed much of the...
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How to Find and Cook a Heritage Chicken
Everything old is new again, with farmers and eaters rediscovering heritage breeds of chickens. But finding and cooking one isn't as easy as heading to the local grocery store and buying a pack of...
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Food Runners feed the homeless from the table of Super Bowl party excess
The luncheon was held just south of downtown, with about 100 in attendance. Compared with other galas in this, the host city for Super Bowl 50, the affair was modest, low-key. None of the celebrities...
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BJ's Recalls Deli Meat over Pistachio Risk
BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc., is voluntarily issuing a recall of Cittero Mortadella and deli meats sold from January 20 through February 3, 2016 due to a possible exposure to a tree nut allergen...
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Peanut Allergy Prompts Fried Bean Snack Recall
TF Foods of Paramount, CA is recalling its 10.60 ounce packages of “Fried Bean Snack (Na-Pia-Jo)” food treats because they may contain undeclared peanuts. People who have an allergy or severe...
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Margaritaville Banana Cream Pie Filling Recalled due to Salmonella Risk
The Jel Sert Company, of West Chicago, Illinois, is issuing a voluntary recall notice for 52 cases of Margaritaville Banana Cream Pie Filling, 4.16 ounce carton that was used for sales samples and gift...
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Michael Pollan Wants You to Reconsider Everything You Know About Cooking
Going back to when he was better known for books about gardening than for being a food writer, author Michael Pollan has been able show the bridge between the culture of a plant and the politics of it....
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