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Join us at the Midwest Farm to School Conference in Nebraska City, NE on Wednesday, March 2, 2016! This full day event will bring together those interested in building the farm to school initiative in...
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View ArticleThe hunt for Britain’s best producers begins!
January 2016 sees the launch of our inaugural delicious. Produce Awards, in association with home appliance company Fisher & Paykel. The Awards are a celebration of Britain’s greatest goods and the...
View ArticleOrganic 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...
View ArticleCooked: the importance of making your own food
A Martu woman in Western Australia is hunting: she takes a burning wad of dry grass and sets fire to the brush to expose lizard burrows, pounding the smoking earth with a large stick when she finds...
View ArticleFrance becomes first country to force all supermarkets to give unsold food to...
Supermarkets in France have been banned from throwing away or spoiling unsold food by law. The stores are now required to donate unwanted food to charities and food banks. To stop foragers, some...
View ArticleA Third Of Tested Restaurant Lobster Dishes Actually Contain Cheaper Fish,...
Restaurants serve lobster in rolls, soup, ravioli and even on pizza – and diners are willing to pay a premium for the delicacy. But an INSIDE EDITION investigation, which will air in full on Monday,...
View ArticleThis Crop of Women Farmers is Stepping Up to Sustain the Land
Last year, all five of the first-year apprentices at Soil Born Farms’ headquarters near Sacramento, California were women. Another young woman, Elle Huftill-Balzer, was the boss of them all, the farm...
View ArticleHumans Are Spreading Deadly Bee Virus, Study Says
The deformed wing virus is decimating bee populations worldwide, and it is spreading because of human trade and the transport of bees, a new study reports. “It’s largely a man-made problem,” said Lena...
View Article10 #USDAResults in Conservation and Forestry You Should Know
At the beginning of this year, we launched a year-long reflection on USDA-wide results achieved over the course of this Administration. This week begins a month-long focus on seven years of USDA...
View ArticleWhat Should Schools Do When Students Don't Have Enough Money for Lunch?
Like many parents of school-age children, Frances Frost tries to keep up with the papers sent home in her daughter Natalie’s backpack. Sifting through permission slips, picture day fliers, field-trip...
View ArticleWhat ‘America’s Fattest City’ Can Teach Us About Food
Email Print Comment Quote In 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named Huntington, W.Va. the country’s unhealthiest city — for instance, half of the residents reportedly were obese and...
View ArticleSoda companies targeting young people in low- and middle-income countries,...
Despite pledges not to market to children, the world’s largest soft drink companies are borrowing tactics from the tobacco industry and turning their sights to young people in low- and middle-income...
View ArticleAssembly committee passes GMO labeling bill
The Assembly’s Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection passed a bill Tuesday that would require mandatory labeling of food made with genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. The bill, A.617,...
View ArticleTop U.S. Intelligence Official Calls Gene Editing a WMD Threat
Easy to use. Hard to control. The intelligence community now sees CRISPR as a threat to national safety. by Antonio Regalado February 9, 2016 Sponsored by Genome editing is a weapon of mass...
View ArticleAs Bison Becomes More Popular, Two Views Emerge on How to Treat Them
ATLANTA — bison restaurant here that bears his name is stuffed with trophies, both earned and acquired. The America’s Cup he won in 1977 sits on a pedestal in the conference room. The Oscar for “Gone...
View ArticleResidents fight for economic and environmental justice in one Illinois town
Waukegan, Ill., a town just north of Chicago, is predominantly Latino, black, and low-income. It’s also home to a coal power plant, two active coal ash ponds, and three superfund sites. Accordingly,...
View ArticleOregon farmers battle over GMO control
Oregon farmers are suffering real financial losses because of contamination from nearby genetically engineered crops, a Legislative committee heard Thursday. “We lose money when we have a GMO...
View ArticleClinton comes out against Atlantic offshore drilling, angling to win green...
Hillary Clinton needs climate activists’ votes more than ever now — and she’s shifting her positions to try to win them. On Monday, as she lagged in the polls leading up to the New Hampshire primary,...
View ArticleWhat Other Cities Can Learn From Philadelphia’s Effort to Cut Salt in Chinese...
As folks dig into Chinese fare to celebrate the Lunar New Year, they might be surprised to hear that they’re getting an extra helping of sodium. Popular main dishes such as General Tso’s Chicken can...
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