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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.
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Weed dating: Young farmers go looking for romance [VIDEO]
Meeting people is hard when you work on a farm. That's where this form of "speed dating" enters the picture.
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The drought is so bad that the British have to eat ugly vegetables
"Knobbly carrots, wonky spuds, bent courgettes and discoloured cauliflowers" are all on the table.
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Homeland Security breaks up cheese-smuggling ring
Cheese is expensive in Canada. Really expensive.
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This London butcher is selling fake human meat, and it is INCREDIBLY TRAUMATIC
Just keep telling yourself "it's only animal meat that someone has lovingly sculpted into the shape of human meat." On second thought, that won't help at all.
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Pork barrel spending: How Big Ag lobbyists use federal dollars to protect factory farms
A recent lawsuit accused the pork industry of using industry marketing or "checkoff" funds to keep pigs in factory farms.
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How did we let another country beat us to pizza-encrusted candy bars?
America, I still believe in your ability to bang two junk foods together and make something horrible. But Pizza Hut Middle East scooped you on the pizza-dough-coated Kit-Kats.
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USDA OKs tofu as a meat substitute in school lunches
Which will do nothing to quell the right's fury over the new school lunch standards.
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Confined dining: A primer on factory farms and what they mean for your meat
More and more of the meat you buy in the supermarket is produced in meat factories, a.k.a. CAFOs. Hold your nose and have a look, then think hard about that next hot dog.
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Dispatch from Ohio, land of public markets and urban farms
Our correspondent visits the annual Public Market Conference in Cleveland and discovers an inspiring urban farm.
