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Global food prices spike 10% in July, thanks largely to drought
Seventy-eight percent of the U.S. corn crop is in fair or worse condition.
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If they ban your super-sized soda, would you switch to diet?
Even as New York's soda ban gets close to becoming a reality, several loopholes have public health advocates worried.
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McDonald’s tried to make ‘onion nuggets’ happen
Given the kind of stuff that gets the fast-food green light, it’s hard to believe that there are even more concepts that end up on the cutting room floor. But there are, and the McDonald’s Corporation’s archives manager Mike Bullington knows about all of them. The most shocking item in his collection of fast-food memorabilia, at […]
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If you like to cook, this new use for a plastic bottle will honestly change your life
Watch -- just watch! -- what this genius lady does with an egg and a plastic bottle.
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Counting the harvest: How numbers can save urban gardens
In 2010, just 67 New York gardens yielded 87,000 pounds of food. Some experts believe data like this is crucial to ensuring the urban agriculture movement takes root.
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They’re genetically modifying goats to create human breast milk substitute
You know that human breast milk is very important for babies’ development. (If you don’t know this, go ostentatiously bottle-feed a baby doll near a farmers market! It will be fun, I promise.) But for various reasons, sometimes new moms can’t breastfeed — they need medication that shows up in breast milk, for instance, or […]
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Your meat-eating days are almost over, water experts say
With water shortages looming and global population rising, burgers will soon be a luxury we can't afford, say water experts.
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Cuts to food stamps will hit red state residents hardest
The states with the highest hunger rates include the GOP strongholds of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennesee, West Virginia, and Louisiana.
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Monsanto’s 10 most misleading talking points on GMO labeling
The biotech giant will go to great lengths to spin the story on GMO labeling, even if that means making claims it can't support.
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Two ways to concentrate and save tomatoes
Have a bunch of tomatoes lying around? Lucky you! Here are two delicious ways to make them last.
