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Fat Isn't Bad, Stupid is Bad
Or so says food writer Michael Ruhlman. He wants to know if you know what’s in your food. He wants to restart the conversation around this—and change the way we talk about what we eat. This was the...
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Howes: Truth is biggest casualty in Flint debacle
For three years, the truth took a holiday in Flint. State and federal officials calmly exchanged thousands of emails, documents obtained by The Detroit News show, citing arcane rules that ensured the...
View ArticleGarden of Life Expands Voluntary Recall to Include Additional Lots of Raw...
RawMealRecallInfo@gardenoflife.com (866)211-9058Rhonda Price (561)371-9407 Garden of Life LLC is expanding its January 29th voluntary recall to include additional lots of its Raw Meal Organic Shake...
View ArticleSustainable 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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Justice Antonin Scalia, Who Led a Conservative Renaissance on the Supreme...
He was, Judge Richard A. Posner wrote in The New Republic in 2011, “the most influential justice of the last quarter century.” Justice Scalia was a champion of originalism, the theory of constitutional...
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Organic farming 'could be key to feeding the world as global warming takes hold'
Organic farming – long held to be irrelevant in tackling world hunger – could be key to feeding the world as global warming takes hold, one of the biggest studies ever to be carried out into the...
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Lack of Inspection of Meatball Soup Prompts Recall
Canyon Creek Soup Co., of Edmonton, Alberta in Canada is recalling 7,275 pounds of meatball soup products that were not presented at the U.S. point of entry for inspection, the U.S. Department of...
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Those Valentine's Day flowers might just be from Kenya
NYAHURURU, Kenya (AP) — This Valentine's Day, there's a good chance your flowers came from Kenya. "I know the flowers are for giving on Valentine's Day," said Phanice Cherop, a worker at a flower farm...
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Flint just one example of need to upgrade water supply
Flint is experiencing a disaster — and there isn’t anything “natural” about the circumstances that have left the city’s drinking water poisoned with lead. The situation in Flint is what happens when...
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My Tryst with Organic Farming...on the farm.
The Ministry of Rural Development has taken it upon itself to promote organic farming across the length and breadth of India. Well that’s precisely what’ve decided to do in the National Action Plan for...
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Monsanto Larvicide, Not Zika Virus, True Cause Of Brazil's Microcephaly...
The microcephaly outbreak in Brazil which coincided with the spread of the Zika virus continues to stun the world, even after months since the first report of the incident. Pregnant women all over the...
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Valentine’s Day Treats: Fruits & Veggies Symbolizing Love
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GM Mustard faces new hurdles: Eight more tests, risk report
In a move that has effectively placed commercial cultivation of GM Mustard in cold storage for now, biotech regulator Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) has outlined several steps before the...
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Calls to tackle 'holiday hunger' faced by many children
News It's feared that nearly two million children go without a meal when they're not at school. Experts say that not nearly enough is being done to deal with so-called 'holiday hunger' and that...
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AP Explore: Seafood from slaves
The Burmese slaves sat on the floor and stared through the rusty bars of their locked cage, hidden on a tiny tropical island thousands of miles from home. Just a few yards away, other workers loaded...
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Can Detroit become a food-sovereign city?
Recent years have seen a rise in local food entrepreneurs facilitated by organizations like FoodLab Detroit and Detroit Kitchen Connect and an almost exponential proliferation of urban farms. Almost...
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Going organic in India
What does it take to turn 75,000 hectares of farmland organic? Well, people in the state of Sikkim can now speak to that. A mountainous region in eastern India, Sikkim recently became the first state...
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"Synthetic Forests" Covers the Enormous Risks of GE Trees
Loading Please Wait | 7,411 views Please or to continue. Share By Dr. Mercola If the biotech industry has its way, 184 million acres of native forests around the world will be bulldozed down and...
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Strawberries + Pesticides: How California's Farmers are Looking for New...
I remember the first time I heard Strawberry Fields by the Beatles. I imagined beautiful rolling hills of lush strawberries, adorned with butterflies, shady trees and blooming flowers. It wasn’t until...
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