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Four foods you probably waste — and how to stop
Are these fresh ingredients languishing in your kitchen as we speak? Stop the food waste madness with these tips and recipes.
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Fowl play: Raising illegal backyard chickens [VIDEO]
Meet some outlaw chickens and the people who harbor them -- in their quiet backyards.
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Poop dreams: A farmer on why we should care about manure
Waste not, want not: A chat with the author of the No. 1 book on the No. 2 business.
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Paper asks: Does high-fructose corn syrup contribute to a rise in autism?
New science suggests that the ubiquitous sweetener may interact with environmental factors -- such as exposure to heavy metals and pesticides -- to impact childhood development.
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Maryland blazes the trail to get arsenic out of chicken feed
A new Maryland law will keep arsenic out of chicken feed -- and out of a good portion of the waterways in one of the densest chicken-producing parts of the United States.
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Milk Not Jails: Building a new urban-rural alliance in New York
A New York grassroots campaign called Milk Not Jails sees supporting small dairy farms -- not building more prisons -- as a path to rural and urban renewal alike.
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While Walmart boasts ‘sustainability,’ shrimp factory workers protest
Migrant packers at a Thai seafood factory with strong ties to Walmart claim they're being underpaid and kept against their will.
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Joel Salatin responds to New York Times’ ‘Myth of Sustainable Meat’
Is sustainable meat production possible? Polyface Farm's Joel Salatin takes on a recent New York Times op-ed point by point.
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The mother who stood up to Monsanto in Argentina
A winner of this year's Goldman Environmental Prize, Sofia Gatica organized women in her city to study the health effects of agrochemicals in the soy fields and worked to get a dangerous pesticide banned. Now she's taking on Monsanto.
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Scientists discover ancient antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Okay, nobody panic, but scientists have found a stash of bacteria that have never had contact with humans, but are resistant to antibiotics anyway. If this happened in a movie, this would probably end with everyone becoming dead. But I’m sure it’s fine!
