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Labor of love: Domestic fair trade grows
Just like Fair Trade for international farms, the Food Justice Certified label is rewarding farms with fair labor practices inside the U.S.
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Green goo: Sustainable meat producers market their own ‘pink slime’
Food advocates have pushed back hard against the ammonia-doused fatty beef trimmings used by Big Ag as filler in meat products. But some local food producers are fighting fire with fire -- by making their own local, sustainable version of "pink slime."
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Starbucks strawberry Frappuccino dyed with crushed insects
Here's a Starbucks order to try out: a Strawberries & Creme Frappuccino with soy milk and a shot of crushed parasitic insects.
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For New Yorkers, a farmers market on your phone
An experimental online marketplace hopes to fill two gaping holes in the community-supported agriculture business model: choice and convenience.
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Beekeepers to EPA: We’re running out of time
Over a million people have asked the EPA to remove the pesticide linked with honey bee die-offs from the market. Will the agency listen in time?
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Put your money where your mouth is: Funding food with Kickstarter
The online fundraising platform isn't just for artists and techies anymore; in 2011 alone, 241 successful Kickstarter food projects netted over $2.8 million.
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Who harvests your winter tomatoes? [VIDEO]
This moving episode of the Perennial Plate takes us to visit Lupe Gonzalo, a Florida tomato worker from Guatemala who talks openly about her hopes and struggles.
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The woman who took on Koch Industries to save her farm
The author of the new book Turn Here Sweet Corn talks about organic farming, rural development, and what it takes to fight big corporate money with people power.
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What if Jay-Z ran a healthy corner store?
The founder of Atlanta's The Boxcar Grocer asks: When was the last time a corner store made a healthy lifestyle look fun and accessible to urban audiences?
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Monsanto picture book teaches kids about the wonders of biotech
A kids' activity book funded by Monsanto and other biotech firms explains how biotechnology is "a really neat topic [that is] helping to improve the health of the Earth and the people who call it home."
