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Tropicana 'snackifies' drinks with new fruit in a tube
American adults and kids don't eat enough fruit. The solution, according to PepsiCo: Make fruit more fun! And what's more fun than puréed slush that you can squirt straight in your mouth?
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Brightening up the dark farming history of the Sunshine State
Wrapping up my travels with a visit to the backyard Eden of Earth 'n' Us and Jessica Padron's Urban Farmer in Miami, I ponder Florida's past and present colonial abuses.
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Massive gingerbread house recall a reminder that food safety starts in the gut
On Christmas Eve, Whole Foods Market recalled gingerbread houses it sold in 23 states for possible contamination with Staphylococcus aureus. The newly passed Food Safety Modernization Act won't prevent this from happening again.
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Reflections on my farm’s first year
A year ago, we signed the deed for our 12-acre farm, and I prepared for a crash course in country living.
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EPA swats away controversy over bee-killing pesticide
Echoing Bayer, the EPA has issued a limp response to the brouhaha over its approval of clothianidin, Bayer's blockbuster and potentially bee-killing pesticide. The agency still has a lot of hard questions to answer.
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Update: Bayer responds to criticism of its potentially bee-killing pesticide
What does Bayer have to say about the whole leaked-EPA-memo, flawed-pesticide-study thing? "Buzz off -- nothing to see here, move along please."
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Vote on the Scariest Food of 2010
From pink slime to salmonella eggs, 2010 dished up sick food news like a lunchlady gone postal. What were you most afraid to put in your mouth in 2010?
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Fertilizer prices putting manure in the limelight
I never thought I'd see the day when shit -- the bodily kind -- would make headlines the way it is right now. But with phosphorous and potash prices rising, farmers are starting to get a lot more interested in the older sources for fertilizer.
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Finding local, sustainable seafood in Minnesota [VIDEO]
Around Minneapolis, fishing is a huge sport and there are trout farms, but there aren't many sources for sustainably caught fish. Among of the exceptions are the few commercial fishermen left on Lake Superior, like Harley Tofte.
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Young farmers need help from the USDA — and the next Farm Bill
The U.S. needs more new farmers, and the USDA says it wants to encourage them. But as the stories of several young farmers show, money and help aren't easy to get.
