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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.
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USDA offers help to beginning farmers. Will it be enough?
A new round of grants for beginning farmers worth $18 million promotes sustainable changes. But it's a just drop in the bucket compared to what we need.
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Buy a $150,000 bag of onions to save a family farm
Oh man, you're probably wishing you hadn't spent that $4,500 on a Rick Perry head planter yesterday. If you'd saved it, you could have put it towards ... well, a bag of onions, but also they'll throw in some dirt!
