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‘Ag-gag’ rules choke off supply of livestock snuff films
Rather than deal with the inhumane, superbug-spawning conditions in factory farms, the Iowa state legislature would prefer to stifle one of activists' primary weapons of dissent.
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Walmart is no savior: More small businesses = healthier people
Big box stores are often billed as saviors for food-insecure neighborhoods, but new research suggests otherwise.
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The littlest farmers taste their first crop [VIDEO]
The Perennial Plate crew visits a school garden in Georgia where the students plant, harvest, and taste their very first radishes.
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Every last bite: Why wasting animal protein is unethical
In the latest installment of our Protein Angst series, food waste expert Jonathan Bloom points to this fact: Roughly 20 percent of all meat produced in the U.S. doesn't get eaten.
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Surviving winter eating local: Grist readers’ advice
We asked our locavore readers to tell us how they make it through the dark days of winter. If the answers we got are any indication, they're doing just fine!
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Publix humiliation: Workers, students fasting for fair food
A group of students, activists, and farmworkers prepare for a week-long fast targeted at Publix Supermarkets Inc., Florida’s largest private corporation.
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Beetlemania: Invasive insect could become our billion-dollar problem
If the Khapra beetle spreads from our ports to our crops, it will eat all our food. Visit the front lines in Oakland, Calif., where customs agents struggle to keep the buggers at bay.
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Mexico City’s urbanization threatens ancient ‘floating gardens’
Chinampas, or floating gardens -- small artificial islands full of crops, built up on shallow lake beds -- once sustained the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, producing multiple harvests every year. They still exist in Mexico City, for now.
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Soup & Bread: Inspiring a community of giving [Recipes]
Check out an excerpt from a new cookbook that celebrates a popular winter food tradition, and the community event it inspired.
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Getting homemade foods off the black market
With a proposed "cottage food law," California joins a handful of states that have already made it legal to sell artisan foods made in people's homes.
