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The Edible Schoolyard Project trains educators to create powerful and sustainable edible education programs in their schools and communities. Learn and experience first-hand the core principles and...
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Sugary drink companies target low & middle-income countries
Bryony Sinclair is Senior Policy & Public Affairs Manager at World Cancer Research Fund International. Obesity is reaching epidemic proportions around the world and excess sugar consumption is one...
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Organic honey is a sweet success for Cuba as other bee populations suffer
Long known for its cigars and rum, Cuba has added organic honey to its list of key agricultural exports, creating a buzz among farmers as pesticide use has been linked to declining bee populations...
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JOB ALERT: Food Shift is Hiring a Director of Operations!
40% of food in the US is getting wasted while nearly 50 million people lack access to healthful food. Food Shift is dedicated to building sustainable solutions that reduce wasted food and hunger. We...
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Climate change is awfully hard on native plants
BERKELEY, Calif. — Willis Linn Jepson encountered a squat shrub while he was collecting botanical specimens on California’s Mount Tamalpais in the fall of 1936. He trimmed off a few branches and jotted...
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Here's just some of the fab stuff we've secured from nice people to help us say 'thank you' to new and renewing London Food Link supporters. ***We email discount codes / details of how to claim when...
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Letters: International interference in the EU debate reeks of hypocrisy
SIR – Barack Obama, the American President, and Wayne Swan, the former deputy prime minister of Australia, have both made comments in support of Britain remaining in the EU. Their views are mostly...
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Is Humanity Getting Better?
The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless. I. London, 1665. The capital smelled of death in its last large outbreak of the Plague, the...
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The newest strategy for saving bees is really, really old
Apis cerana — fly in and out. For centuries beehives have been part of the architecture of mountain homes here, built into the thick outside walls. Traditionally wild colonies of bees found the hive...
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The decisions we make about climate change today will reverberate for...
The great irony of climate change is that it's so big we can barely care about it. I don't mean out of malice or ignorance, though there's plenty of both of those to go around. I just mean that the...
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Why We Need to Keep 80 Percent of Fossil Fuels in the Ground
Physics can impose a bracing clarity on the normally murky world of politics. It can make things simple. Not easy, but simple. We have to attack this problem from both ends, going after supply as well...
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Organic meat and milk could offer health benefits, study suggests
Organic meat and milk could offer more health benefits than conventionally delivered products, according to a new study by scientists from the UK, Poland, Norway, Italy, Denmark, Switzerland, Greece...
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U.S. Closing a Loophole on Products Tied to Slaves
WASHINGTON — President Obama will sign legislation this week that effectively bans American imports of fish caught by forced labor in Southeast Asia, part of a flurry of recent actions by the White...
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Organic Meat and Milk Higher in Healthful Fatty Acids
Organic meat and milk differ markedly from their conventionally produced counterparts in measures of certain nutrients, a review of scientific studies reported on Tuesday. In particular, levels of...
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How to Improve Nutrition Labeling on Food
Health experts believe the way to get people to eat better is to tell them which foods are healthy and which ones aren’t. Nutrition facts panels—the little info-boxes on the back of food packages that...
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FDA joins Salmonella investigation linked to organic Raw Meal powders
The Food and Drug Administration has joined the investigation into a multi-state outbreak of Salmonella Virchow that has been linked to Raw Meal brand powdered organic shake mixes distributed by Garden...
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Federal law pre-empts California meat labeling/packaging law
California cannot enforce the “slack fill” label and packaging requirements of the state’s Business and Professional Code because the state law is preempted by the federal Meat Inspection Act and the...
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Some Utah dairies could sell raw and pasteurized milk
Lehi Republican Jacob L. Anderegg has a modest request before the Utah House of Representatives. He wants the dozen or so raw milk producers who also have retail stores on their property to also be...
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In the Case of School Lunch, Kitchens Might Be as Important as Ingredients
Around the country, schools have been working to serve more nutritious meals, with less highly processed food and more fresh fruits and vegetables. Unfortunately, many of those schools are also stuck...
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The Parmesan Cheese You Sprinkle on Your Penne Could Be Wood
The cheese police are on the case. Acting on a tip, agents of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration paid a surprise visit to a cheese factory in rural Pennsylvania on a cold November day in 2012. They...
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