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Max Cadji: Worms against the philanthro-pimps!
A food activist brings lessons learned in the Peace Corps and Madagascar back to the San Francisco Bay Area in a quest to create businesses that can thrive without grants.
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Study: GMO crops are killing butterflies
We’re all familiar with Big Ag’s bad reputation of picking on small-scale and organic farmers. Now Monsanto and its cronies are beating up an even more innocuous set of victims: beautiful, defenseless monarch butterflies.
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‘Pink slime’ is the tip of the iceberg: Look what else is in industrial meat
Think added ammonia is bad? Try pool disinfectant, fabric bleach, and a variety of germicides!
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Touring Joseph’s fields and cooking South Carolina gold [VIDEOS]
The Perennial Plate crew takes a tour of a South Carolina farm and makes a meal with chef Sean Brock.
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McDonald’s sets itself up for a new social media fail
Sure, McDonald’s got bitten on the ass last time it tried to tick “leverage social media” off its corporate to-do list. But what is it supposed to do, learn? Apparently not, since it’s back in the Twitter game, and this time it’s chosen a hashtag that sounds filthy even before the haters get their hands on it.
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Street food boom towns: Three West Coast case studies
They may never catch up to Portland, but neighboring cities Seattle and Vancouver, B.C., are making strides to put food carts front and center.
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Lexicon of Sustainability: Eating down the food chain
The latest installment explains why eating fish lower on the food chain helps the ocean -- and offers up an easy sardine recipe to get you started.
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The man who blew the whistle on ‘pink slime’
Glad to see so many people talking about getting ammonia-treated beef trimmings out of school lunch? You have this former Beef Products Inc. employee to thank.
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This suds for you: Taste-testing organic beer
It's a hard job, but somebody has to do it: In a blind taste test, Grist staffers drink and rate a selection of imported and domestic organic beers.
