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Chickens raised in New York backyards lay polluted eggs
Which absolutely should not surprise you.
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PSA: Drinking liquid nitrogen is a bad idea
“Duh,” you say? Tell that to a British teen who just had to have her stomach removed.
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Hardcore pumpkin: Should I buy an organic jack-o’-lantern?
As mountains of cheap, industrially grown carving pumpkins beckon, what is a conscious, holiday-loving girl to do?
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GMOs, pesticides, and the new scientific deadlock
A new study says GMO crops have led farmers to use 400 million more pounds of pesticide than they would have otherwise. Here's how to interpret the science -- and the critique.
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Cap-and-spade: Will California’s carbon market dollars go to organic farms?
As California enters the world of cap-and-trade, sustainable farms are in line to receive dollars that will come straight from oil and gas companies.
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A ‘radical homemaker’ shares her secret to greener, more affordable meat eating
With her new book "Long Way on a Little," the author of "Radical Homemakers" talks about how to use the bones, fat, and extra parts of grass-fed animals to make them last.
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Bhutan wants to be the world’s first 100 percent organic country
To be fair, the country's already most of the way there.
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Report confirms fisheries are suffering, but offers hope
More than half the world’s fisheries are overexploited, and small-scale fisheries, the kind that disproportionately feed the world’s hungry (think of reef-fish which are decimated by industrial-sized fishing vessels) have it the worst according to a new study published last week by researchers at the University of California and the University of Washington. That’s the […]
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Mom knows best: How food justice starts at home
Who says the food movement is led by the elite? One activist reflects on her immigrant mother's quiet determination to feed her family well in trying circumstances, and shares what we can all learn from it.
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Drama for your farmer: A play captures the demise of the small farm
With their play "Farmscape," an Iowa professor and her students have brought agribusiness, GMOs, consolidation, and other core tensions of the Midwest farming world to life.
