Climate Food and Agriculture
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Dragging Boulder school food into the computer age
U.S. school food operations are at the end of the line when it comes to adopting modern technology. And that helps account for why they have trouble making ends meet under the federally-funded school meals program.
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Boulder school food isn't quite cooked from scratch — yet
Boulder offers a rare glimpse into the carefully choreographed steps that must be taken to accomplish radical change in a large school district's food service. It's a work in progress.
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The Onion serves up some 'wrath-minded' GM taters [VIDEO]
Joad Cressbeckler has just heard that genetically modified potatoes have been approved (they're actually being planted in the E.U.), and fears that they're coming for us.
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Herding sheep is like herding people: Desire works better than fear
Moving my sheep into their barn for the winter has me thinking woolly thoughts about flocks of various kinds.
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Food justice: It's not black and white in Detroit
I recently spent two weeks in Detroit, working at Brother Nature Produce farm and watching how the city’s food-justice groups handle race and privilege.
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White House to put 6,000 salad bars in schools
First Lady Michelle Obama announced today that the White House is backing a national salad bar initiative for schools, despite uncertainties over how local health inspectors might treat those salad bars and USDA nutrition-tracking rules that could prove a major impediment.
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Will the Tester amendment to S. 510 help small farms and processors, but put more kids at risk?
"Deadly pathogens do not discriminate based on the size of a business," argues Food Fight panelist Kathleen Chrismer, the mother of a young victim of E. coli poisoning. Others counter that food can never be 100 percent safe.
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Snotty locavores, agrarian urbanists, vegivores, and more
This week's tasty links from around the Web include pieces on the tendency to self-righteousness among hardcore locavores and the role of green space in high-density cities.
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Urban agriculture in West Oakland gets a $4 million boost
City Slicker Farms gets $4 million from the state to buy land for an "urban farm park" that will not only grow food for residents, but provide a safe place to play and hang out.
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As end times near, Glenn Beck peddles ‘food insurance’ kits
Glenn Beck's make-a-buck survivalism is crass and designed to keep fear alive. There are better ways for societies to prepare for hard times.
