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My daughter, the grass-fed rib-eye fanatic
Of all the things a daughter could be addicted to -- drugs, sex, texting -- steak doesn't seem so bad. But this could be a very expensive habit.
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Jamie Oliver wins Emmy for 'Food Revolution'
Amazingly, given the absence of Snooki or dancing routines, Jamie Oliver won an Emmy Saturday for Outstanding Reality TV Program.
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From Motown to Growtown: The greening of Detroit
Where factories once flourished, hope sprouts in Detroit's urban gardens and farms, and projects like Greening Detroit.
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With salmonella recall expanding to half a billion eggs, it's time to rethink ‘efficiency'
No one can say the egg industry isn't efficient. With the 10 largest producers owning 135 million hens, they can poison millions in a single swoop.
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More research linking pesticide exposure to ADHD in kids
UC Berkeley researchers have been studying the relationship between pesticide exposure and attention problems in children living in California's Salinas Valley, aka America's "Lettuce Bowl." Not surprisingly, they're at much higher risk for ADHD.
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New York City food pantries linking those in need with local farm-fresh produce
Local Produce Link enables food pantries to get the same locally grown, farm fresh, and sometimes organic produce as posh Manhattan restaurants. And their clients, young and old, get to visit farms to see where that fresh food comes from.
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A ‘habitual offender' unleashes nearly half a billion salmonella-tainted eggs
Jack DeCoster, the man behind the company responsible for the vast egg recall, has a record of environmental and human-rights abuses dating to the 90s
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New podcast: interview with Nancy Rabalais, expert on the Gulf dead zone
In the latest edition of Victual Reality, the podcast about food politics, I talk to Nancy Rabalais, the scientist who leads an annual voyage into the Gulf dead zone to measure the extent of its destruction.
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Three pillars of a food revolution
As marketers learn to fake climate-friendly food, how do we spot the real thing? It's a question of values.
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What U.S. citydwellers really spend on food and drink
Five average Detroit households could subsist on one profligate Austinite's food budget. Check out an infographic showing which cities spend the most and least on food.
