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Cure and simple: How to make your own bacon and charcuterie
Want to learn how to preserve that local pasture-raised meat? These recipes for homemade bacon and green chile chicken sausages should get you hooked.
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Science says: Cut that steak in half to keep the climate in check
In their continuing efforts to go beyond CO2, some scientists have been looking seriously at the impact of nitrous oxide on the climate, and results point to a very familiar refrain: Eat more plants, less meat.
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Southern discomfort: Tracing a region’s history through its food
What do food and farming have to do with race and culture? This food historian says plenty.
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Crop yields are only part of the organic vs. conventional farming debate
Sustainable practices yield fewer grain crops, but is that all that matters? One food policy expert responds to a recent news analysis that claims industrial and organic agriculture are equally important.
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‘Food, Inc.’ chicken farmer has a new, humane farm
Carole Morison talks about her new pasture-based operation and the example she and her husband hope to set for other poultry farmers looking to change the industry.
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Beautiful chart tells you how to eat seasonal (in the U.K., at least)
This beautiful interactive chart from U.K. organization Eat Seasonably may not apply precisely to your climate, and it’s pretty British in other ways too — “courgettes” are zucchini, FYI. But I love the concept — a handy calendar showing you what fruits and veg are in season at what times — and I love the […]
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Is the ‘obesity lobby’ winning?
A closer look at how lobbying from the processed food industry is reshaping kids' health -- literally.
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High-fructose corn syrup and autism: The paper’s authors respond
Of "causes" and "risk factors," "macroepigenetic models" and "total loads."
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By growing food, Occupy the Farm helps a movement grow up
With the takeover of a University of California agricultural testing station, Occupiers move from envisioning a new world to creating one.
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We catch too many sardines — but should we stop eating them?
The problem isn’t that people are eating too many sardines -- on the contrary, it's that we're feeding most of them to farmed fish (like tuna and salmon) and industrially farmed animals.
