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Monsanto Feels the Bern as Sanders Turns Focus to GMO Labeling
U.S. Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has turned his focus to supporting GMO labeling and attacking Monsanto’s interests this week after Hillary Clinton’s love of GMOs was recently confirmed by...
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This Preschool Doubles As An Urban Farm
It's becoming more common for teachers to take elementary school students outside to get a math or science lesson—especially in places like California, where the state hopes to add a garden to every...
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Should Sprouts Come With A Warning Label?
You will never catch prominent food-safety attorney Bill Marler eating sprouts. Not on a heaping deli sandwich. Not on a freshly tossed salad. He puts them in the same category as raw milk — a food...
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Why Your Hamburger Might Be Leading To Nitrogen Pollution
Meat has a greater impact on the environment than pretty much any other food we eat. As The Salt has reported, billions of cows, pigs, sheep and poultry we raise as livestock guzzle massive quantities...
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2015 Agricultural Outlook Forum
Robert T. Fraley Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer Monsanto Company Mary Kay Thatcher Senior Director Congressional Relations American Farm Bureau Robert S. Sutor Vice President...
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Feeding Farms with Supermarket Food Waste
Kristine Wong is a multimedia journalist who reports on energy, the environment, green tech, sustainable business, and food. Her work has been featured in a number of publications, including The...
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California Wants to Help Low-Income Residents Buy More Fresh Produce
For many low-income folks living in food swamps, the problem isn’t so much a lack of food, as an overabundance of highly-processed, unhealthy foods. For some California residents, however, the scales...
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Shoyu Cabbage Soup Recipe
Recipes Published: (97) active: 15 min total: 50 min Servings: 4 Recipe Servings: 4 1 tablespoon vegetable oil 1 medium onion, thinly sliced 2 carrots, peeled, thinly sliced 2 celery stalks, thinly...
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Celebrate Community-Supported Agriculture!
Sign up here to make sure you’re getting the latest scoop on CSA Day! CSA Day is the busiest day for getting new CSA signups. CSA farmers can take advantage of this by offering promotions, free...
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Seed bank aims to protect world's agricultural inheritance from Syria war
The wild wheat seed had travelled from Aleppo to the Arctic circle in northern Norway. It has now come almost full circle to Lebanon’s Bekaa valley, where an effort is under way to save the world’s...
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The Black Panther Party: A Food Justice Story
For most of my life, I didn't know much about the Black Panther Party. As a white kid born the same year that Martin Luther King, Jr. became the name of a national holiday, the stories I did hear about...
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Irvine council decides to go organic on pesticides, herbicides
Taking unusually swift action for a government process, the Irvine City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved using organic pesticides and herbicides on all city-maintained landscaping, including at...
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New grocery store in Denmark sells only castoff foods
The world wastes a shocking amount of food. By some estimates, a third of the food we produce each year gets tossed out, left to rot on the vine, or spoils en route to the consumer. It’s shameful....
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Rescuing Rejected Food to Feed the Hungry at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Yolanda Soto is a hero. At least according to photographer Bryan Schutmaat who photographed her and her work at Borderlands Food Bank for National Geographic. “She wakes up every morning and goes to...
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Fight 'Globesity' and Ditch the Drive-Thru!
Healthy eating habits are important for the whole family. Good eating habits start when kids are young and many families can get derailed by fast food choices and processed foods. There have been...
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German beer purity in question after environment group finds weed-killer traces
Technology | Thu Feb 25, 2016 10:17am EST BERLIN | BERLIN A German environmental group said on Thursday it has found traces of the widely used weed-killer ingredient glyphosate in Germany's 14 most...
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DelBene Introduces Bipartisan Bill to Put U.S. Seafood in School Lunches
Press Release The bill would strengthen the Buy American provision of the National School Lunch program so students receive more nutritious seafood. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Suzan DelBene...
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Federal judge sentences Halal beef schemer to 2 years
Another long-time food company executive is headed to federal prison. William B. Aossey Jr., the founder and long-time chief executive of Iowa’s Midamar Corp., was sentenced today to two years in a...
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Why You're Hearing About Listeria Way More Often
Foodborne illness might seem to be happening more frequently than ever, especially with recent headlines about Chipotle’s E. coli outbreaks and last month’s listeria contamination in Dole salads. But...
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