Climate Food and Agriculture
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High steaks: Meat eaters' climate impact
The Environmental Working Group released the Meat Eaters Guide to Climate Change + Health, and it contains surprises for climate-conscious eaters.
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Elevate your ice cream
How healthy is your ice cream? Find out with this sweet flowchart.
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Organic farming is not really better for you or the planet [UPDATE: Or is it?]
Science writer Christie Wilcox lays out the top myths about organic farming in Scientific American, and they might surprise you:
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Twins' desert solitaire with organic veggies [VIDEO]
In Utah canyon country, 70-year-old twins Bill and Bob Stone live off the grid, grow organic vegetables, and give tours of Native American ruins.
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Would you eat mutant meat?
The FDA does Big Meat a solid by denying broader use of irradiation, which kills disease but leads to discolored and disfigured food.
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Hacking for the planet
Notorious hacker group Anonymous launches a campaign of cyber attacks in support of green causes. Monsanto fell. Are Canada's tar sands next?
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Michigan’s gangsta gardener gets off [VIDEO]
Julie Bass of Oak Park, Mich. no longer faces jail time for having a vegetable garden in her front yard.
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Jail time for gardening: Now officially a trend
Hey, remember the woman threatened with 93 days in jail for growing a garden in her front yard? She could have a cellmate! Dirk Becker of Lantzville, British Columbia turned his scraped-dry gravel pit of a property into a thriving organic farm, so of course he's facing six months of jail time. Why? Well, the thing is, this farm was full of DIRT. You can't have dirt in a yard! It's unsanitary.
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Why it's so hard to reform the food system, explained in one chart
It's very hard to make change in the food system in an environment where wages are flat and couples (read: women) are working more hours.
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Who really benefits from the egg industry deal?
An agreement between the Humane Society and United Egg Producers to seek federal legislation for better henhouse conditions is still a long way from having any real effect.
