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Lunchroom justice: Students push for cafeteria workers’ rights
As the good food movement takes root on college campuses, some students are asking: Where do the people who make our food fit in to the picture?
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Rooting for root vegetables: The perfect recipes for fall and winter
Here are three hearty recipes from a new cookbook dedicated entirely to root vegetables. Trust us, it's better than it sounds.
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Kellogg’s recalls 3 freakin’ million boxes of Mini Wheats
Man, you try to curb food waste, and then some big company gets metal fragments in three million boxes of cereal and has to throw them away.
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Oh good, now you can get festive pumpkin pie- and peppermint-flavored Pringles
The world's premier "potato slurry pressed into a saddle shape" company is debuting three festive and extremely nasty holiday flavors.
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Growing up, growing food: A teenage farmer to watch
At 16, Sophia Vartanian is planning gardens, connecting young farmers, and getting ready to give a TED talk. What have you done recently?
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Pumpkin crop defies drought, prepares for evisceration
The drought devastated corn and soybean crops, but pumpkins thrive in dry weather. We figure pumpkin prices will peak somewhere around January.
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Romney’s new farm platform is all about big business
Romney's latest white paper on agriculture and rural America says a lot about gutting taxes and regulation, but not so much about the farm bill, sustainable farming, or drought.
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Sarah Palin is going to tell us how to eat like her
Sarah Palin is writing a diet book. It's about how her family eats lots of crap and manages to stay thin. We want one about how they are trashy and manage to stay famous.
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Farming the urban sea
In Long Island Sound, just outside New York City, new aquaculture projects promise to clean the water while raising low-input sustainable seafood in vertical underwater gardens.
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Seeding justice: Monsanto vs. soybean farmer case hits the Supreme Court
Can the seed giant patent DNA, even if a farmer comes by it legally? After several courts sided with the company, the Supreme Court will take up one farmer's appeal.
