Climate Food and Agriculture
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Food Studies: Q: How to make a real-world job out of your love for food?
A: Heavy-duty statistics, business writing practice, and a killer packed lunch.
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Did Walmart buy urban agriculture group's silence?
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, goes the old adage. Will the mega-retailer's recent donation bring the Milwaukee-based Growing Power $1 million closer?
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Food Studies: What does the history of baking powder have to do with punk rock cooking zines?
Explaining a what a Masters in gastronomy entails is hard enough; don't ask this cupcake-baker-turned-student what she's planning to do with her degree.
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Small fry: The case for smaller fish portions
New science says smaller fillets are more sustainable -- but not just for the reasons you'd expect.
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A snake in the Olive Garden
Olive Garden and Red Lobster's parent company, The Darden Group, has pledged publicly to make their food healthier. But will it make any real difference?
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FDA: It's corn syrup, now shut up and own it
The Corn Refiners Association has noticed that "corn syrup" is becoming kind of a dirty word. They could improve the product, perhaps, but that would be hard, so they decided to just rename it "corn sugar." But the FDA, which is in charge of things like what counts as "sugar," is having none of it.
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USDA, FDA get an F on livestock antibiotics
The government's own watchdog highlights the near complete lack of real, systematic response to Big Ag's dangerous drug habit.
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Food Studies: biting off more than he can chew?
After a summer spent cooking, volunteering, and teaching, Josh struggles to choose just one food topic to explore in his senior essay at Yale.
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Peebottle Farms: Chicken run
In which our heroine travels to a real farm and resists buying a dozen laying hens -- but settles for a half-dozen.
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Where the buffalo roamed [VIDEO]
Almost halfway through our six-month, food-focused journey across America, we found a place we didn't want to leave.
