Climate Food and Agriculture
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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.
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Into the woods: Seattle plants a public food forest
Urban orchards are growing in popularity all over the country, but Seattle is taking it further with this public fruit experiment.
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Dr. Vandana Shiva: Occupy our food supply!
From seeds, to corporate farms, to giant mega-retailers -- one of the world's preeminent speakers on biodiversity pontificates on the corporatization of our food supply.
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Photo project takes commuters to a California they’ve forgotten
With her new documentary project, author and photographer Lisa Hamilton hopes to reacquaint urban train riders with rural life.
