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As bees vanish, bee heists multiply
Jay Freeman is a run-of-the-mill detective in Butte County, Calif. He spends most of the year investigating robberies and homicides. “Just general felonies,” he said. But that all changes during...
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Hidden corporate donors poured $11M into fight to stop GMO labels in Wash.
Newly unsealed documents shed further light on a food-industry trade group’s efforts to shield the identity of corporate donors who poured $11 million into a campaign to defeat a 2013 food-labeling...
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All the News That's Fit to Eat: Nutritional Benefits of Organic, Parmesan...
Here are the top food stories that got our attention this week. USDA Rules Would Increase Food Stamp Access to Healthy Foods (Associated Press) This week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)...
View ArticleMaytag Dairy Farms Issues Voluntary Recall of Blue Cheese Due to Food Safety...
Maytag Dairy Farms800-247-2458 or 641-791-2010Dustin Vande Hoef515-281-3375 or 515-326-1616 (cell) View Product Photos Maytag Dairy Farms in Newton, IA today announced a voluntary recall of lot number...
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Soggy sales
IN RECENT years breakfast cereals seem to have lost their snap, crackle and pop. Many contain things that anxious consumers shun, from carbohydrates and gluten to artificial flavours and genetically...
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The DARK Act Strikes Back
The DARK Act is Back. Senators acting under orders of their big food and chemical company donors have introduced a new DARK Act that would overturn democratically-passed laws to label genetically...
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1,225 Dairy Farmers Call It Quits in 2015
The United States Department of Agriculture also reported this afternoon that licensed dairy farm numbers declined by 1,225 farms, a drop of 2.7%. The total number of licensed dairy farms now stands at...
View ArticleHealth Matters America Inc. Issues Nationwide Recall of Sprouted Flax Seed...
Health Matters America Inc. 1-888-343-3278 View Product Photos Health Matters America of Cheektowaga, NY, is recalling specific lots of Organic traditions SPROUTED FLAX SEED POWDER and Organic...
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Baking With Local Flour: A 2-Way Conversation
Amy Halloran is writing a book about regional grain production, Bread Rising: The New Crop of Radical Grain Farmers, Millers, Maltsters, Bakers, and Brewers (Chelsea Green, 2015). She is extremely fond...
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Kids Food Festival: Weekend of Events to Help End Childhood Obesity
Join us at Bryant Park in NYC on February 28th & March 1st, 2015! We’ll have hands-on cooking classes, lively entertainment, chef demonstrations, kids’ performers and much more! FREE General...
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Throwing the book at factory farming
Our short film highlights the key moments from our three-year journey behind the closed doors of the factory farm industry. For decades, our farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as our...
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Making a cancer cluster disappear
Built-in weaknesses The vinyl chloride studies most often cited today — including a major study soon to be published — in fact are updates of a study first done in 1974. After companies learned of...
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Ask Well: The Sugar in Fruit
A Not if the fruit in question is whole fruit. Unlike honey, cane sugar, high-fructose corn syrup and other forms of sugar that are added to many processed foods, the sugar naturally found in fruit is...
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How One Immigration Lawyer Brought Justice to the Fields
In the summer of 2015, public interest attorney Melanie Gleason took her legal services business on the road. The 33-year-old-lawyer had just been sworn in to the Massachusetts bar and was ready to...
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The Heroic Future
Email by Alex Steffen by Alex Steffen by Alex Steffen by Alex Steffen A live documentary series about reimagining the world of tomorrow, in order to rebuild the world today. Read more 41 backers $3,062...
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How Mike Callicrate built an alternative cattle empire from ranch to retail
For years, rancher-activist Mike Callicrate has argued that livestock farmers are in an impossible position: they can’t go big, and they can’t go small. Farmers who sell into the industrial system are...
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Facing Severe Food Shortages, Venezuela Pushes Urban Gardens
Last week, opposition lawmakers in Venezuela declared a "food emergency." That's because Venezuela is facing widespread shortages of milk, meat, bread and other staples. Critics blame the government's...
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Career Opportunities in Food Sustainability Continue to Grow
Over the past decade, many companies and organizations have sprung onto the food scene with different strategies for connecting consumers to sustainable food systems. An exciting development within the...
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FDA to Start Testing for Glyphosate in Food
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the nation’s chief food safety regulator, plans to start testing certain foods for residues of the world’s most widely used weed killer after the World...
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