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Going rogue: USDA may have just opened the GMO floodgates
Did the USDA just open the floodgates to unlimited, unregulated planting of new genetically engineered crops? It sure looks that way.
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Michigan woman could face jail time for growing a garden
The green movement doesn't have much use for lawns. Yeah, they make suburban enclaves look tidy and uniform, but really, would it be so effing bad if your house had something useful -- say, a vegetable garden -- instead of a high-maintenance water-hog outdoor carpet? What's the worst that could happen? Well, as Michigan woman Julie Bass discovered, if your city planner is certifiably power-crazy, you could be looking at 93 days in jail.
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Foraging in the Land of Enchantment [VIDEO]
Daniel Klein learns how to forage for edibles in the woods from a nomadic University of New Mexico professor.
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Whew: FDA confirms E. Coli in food is illegal
Food safety advocate Bill Marler has served as one of the most persistent voices covering the deadly German E. coli outbreak and warning that the same thing could happen in the U.S. One of his concerns comes from the fact that the FDA has been cagey about exactly which of the many disease-causing strains of E. coli are considered illegal in food.
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NASA's zero-power gadget turns urine into Capri Sun
Here's the big innovation that will be accompanying the space shuttle on its final launch this Friday: A zero-energy still that converts urine into a sweet, drinkable liquid. Still want to be an astronaut when you grow up?
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GOP votes against food safety — again
The House voted to kill the USDA's Microbiological Data Program, which tests produce for pathogens like E. coli.
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Tom's Kitchen: pasta with snap peas and fennel
Snap peas and parsley and fresh hearts of fennel ... these are a few of my favorite things.
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Hunting feral pigs in Texas [VIDEO]
Nonnative feral pigs in Texas cause millions of dollars of damage each year and wreck local ecosystems. The best way to keep them from running hog-wild so far is to hunt them -- so I join in on a Texas-style hog hunt to find out if they're as delicious as they are destructive.
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Give 7-Up to your baby!
Hey, whatever else is wrong with our current cultural relationship with sugar water, at least nobody's pushing it as a baby formula alternative anymore, right? This 1956 ad says that 7-Up is "so wholesome" that "lots of mothers" give it to their babies. The company's evidence for this wholesomeness? They list the ingredients, even though they don't have to!
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How wallaby farts could save the atmosphere
Scientists have long known that cows are big contributors to global warming. Livestock produce more than a quarter of the world's global methane emissions every year, and 20 percent of methane emissions in the U.S. It's a side effect of ruminant digestion, and aside from strapping your entire herd into carbon-filter diapers, there's no quick fix -- to cut emissions, you have to carefully manage cattle nutrition so they don't offgas as much. Or so we thought. That was before we discovered wallaby farts.
