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Should the food movement push for better jobs too?
As students rally for farmworkers and unions reach out to foodies, a new report asks: What would it take for the food and labor movements to truly combine forces?
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Better than a reusable coffee cup: An edible coffee cup made out of a cookie
It’s all the rage lately to deliver food in edible packaging, because if you eat the container, there’s no waste to dispose of — no paper coffee cup, no plastic wrapper that ends up in the ocean. While tomato-basil membranes sound intriguing, if not exactly appetizing, here’s an idea for an edible container that pretty […]
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This mobile restaurant brings the table to the farm
This mobile-home-as-restaurant might have won the war for most local food ever. Instead of bringing the farm to the table, the Buijtenkitchen is bringing the table to the farm. It’s basically just a hut with a wood-burning stove inside, but it’s small enough that it can be loaded onto a trailer and moved without much […]
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Meatless Monday suggestion causes D.C. to have a cow
The USDA's internal suggestion that people cut back on meat basically is the worst thing that ever happened to our nation.
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Online marketplace set to launch local food vendors into the mainstream
As the tech world rushes to fill the local food space, a team of industry veterans has launched Good Eggs, a site to help small vendors scale up.
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Heavy metal fish: How mercury ends up on your plate
How do we reduce our exposure to mercury? The answer requires both difficult changes to the world’s energy supply and simpler consumer choices.
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Ex-McDonald’s exec opens a healthy fast food restaurant
Mike Roberts, former president and CEO of McDonald's, co-founded Lyfe Kitchen, a restaurant that aims to do healthy food on a fast-food scale.
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Food mega-wholesaler Sysco pledges to liberate pigs from crates
The last year has seen a wave of companies reject one of the worst factory farm practices out there. But Sysco's pledge might have the most impact yet.
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Half of Americans drink at least one glass of soda every day
Gallup has discovered a great divide in American society: There are those of us who drink soda and those of us who do not, and the country’s split almost exactly down the middle. Soda drinkers make up 48 percent of the country’s population. These are the people who drink at least one glass of soda […]
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Buzzkill: EPA rejects beekeepers’ pesticide petition
In March, beekeepers and environmentalists petitioned the EPA to take the pesticide clothianidin -- a suspect in bee die-offs -- off the market. Last week, EPA said no.
