Climate Food and Agriculture
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Labor pains on the farm
Farmers hoping to battle the Great Recession by hiring out-of-work locals in lieu of legal migrants struggle to keep them on the farm. Americans may have gone "soft," but rural depopulation is the root of the problem.
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What worms eat for breakfast
Our budding Worm Mistress settles in to life with the wrigglers and discovers that it's not as complicated as she feared.
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The most beautiful anti-GMO T-shirts you'll ever see
Threadless, which has long been the thinking person's purveyor of silly T-shirts, just ran a design contest with an anti-GMO theme. Artists submitted designs that conveyed a "no GMO" message, and 25 percent of profit from sales of the winning design will go to the Institute for Responsible Technology, which fights GMOs in the United States.
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Food Studies: Rethinking obesity, from Chris Christie to Catherine of Siena
A food studies student reads about the "fasting girls" of Victorian times, and rethinks the contemporary debate over morality and diet.
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Chow-to: Tomato escarole soup with saffron [RECIPE]
A great way to use up the last of your garden tomatoes.
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Without GMO labels, we all eat in the dark [VIDEO]
Two new campaigns suggest that eaters are ready for a more transparent food system.
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Food Studies: The nose knows
The latest scientific research on smell and taste inspires Erin to brew a beer that is savory, sweet, spicy, and cold.
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Water for crops, but farmworkers go thirsty
The water in California's Central Valley is so contaminated with nitrates from fertilizer runoff that the U.N. has placed it on a global list of places with "social problems linked to a lack of access to clean water" alongside Bangladesh, Uruguay, and Namibia.
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New Agtivists: FoodCorps foot soldiers
Meet three young members of FoodCorps, a new national program which asks young leaders to improve the food systems in limited-resource communities.
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Food Studies: Zombie worms and the ethics of consumption
Biodynamic agriculture may be sustainable and balanced, but it can also seem extremely brutal.
