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Fumigation nation: Battling pesticide use in California
In this dispatch from the nation's produce capital, we find school teachers, farmers, activists, and scientists working together to combat methyl iodide, and seeking out alternatives to all toxic fumigants.
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Why the food movement should occupy Wall Street
Two points in the Declaration of the Occupation of New York City address the food system. While barely scratching the surface, the protesters have provided an important opening for the food movement. Will we seize it?
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Target is switching to sustainable seafood
Target is the latest chain to pledge to phase unsustainable seafood out of its stores. The company has already rid its shelves of orange roughy, farmed salmon, and Chilean sea bass, and plans to switch entirely to sustainable fresh and frozen fish by 2015.
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Queer as farm folk: Can the LGBT community save sustainable farming?
The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community has a history of organizing collectively and revitalizing urban spaces. Can they do the same for small-scale farming?
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God's country: Farming for spiritual reasons [VIDEO]
Perennial Plate follows a family in central Ohio that farms for spiritual reasons.
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Food justice — for Navina Khanna, it's what's for dinner
Meet the first member of the Change Gang, a group of people leading change on the ground toward a more sustainable society and greener planet.
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Food Studies: Canvolution!
Canning is hip again, a century after it first caught on -- but for very different reasons.
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The unmasking of a school lunch hero: Mrs. Q speaks
Now that her book, Fed Up with Lunch, is out, the teacher who blogged her way through a year of eating school lunch finally comes clean.
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Peebottle Farms: Have eggs, will barter
What's a girl with a constant stream of backyard eggs to do -- aside from conditioning her hair with the yolks? Why barter, of course.
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No girls allowed: Dr. Pepper's latest is dudes-only
Dr. Pepper is marketing its new diet soda strictly to men. You can have this one, dudes.
