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Teens’ school lunches include pooperoni, fish milk, and “interesting pile”
We're not sure these photos and snarky captions will improve school lunches, but they are hilarious.
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This weird chicken egg is blue because it has a virus
Want a labor-free Easter? All you need is a (harmless) chicken disease.
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Wasted food is a huge climate problem
If wasted food were a country, it would be the world's third largest contributor to climate change, after China and the U.S.
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Ground Zero garden revisited: Remembering 9/11 with a homegrown meal
"Four Fish" author Paul Greenberg assembles an entire meal out of foods grown or caught near the World Trade Center site.
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There’s arsenic in your rice, but don’t worry about it, says FDA
The Food & Drug Administration tested 1,300 samples of rice and found arsenic in them all, but only in very small amounts.
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One in 20 American kids is extremely obese
The childhood obesity rate in the U.S. appears to have plateaued, but the prevalence of "extreme obesity" continues to rise.
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One weird trick to fix farms forever
Does David Brandt hold the secret for turning industrial agriculture from global-warming problem to carbon solution?
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Why are there pesticides and GMOs in our national wildlife refuges?
Enviro groups are suing the feds over cultivation of genetically engineered crops and use of pesticides in Midwestern wildlife refuges.
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![How to make an arid region bloom: irrigated farm plots (between 0.5 and 1 mile in diameter) over the High Plains Aquifer in western Kansas.]()
![How to make an arid region bloom: irrigated farm plots (between 0.5 and 1 mile in diameter) over the High Plains Aquifer in western Kansas.]()
The real reason Kansas is running out of water
A new study finds that a small reduction in farmers' water use could help save Kansas agriculture. But why is it using so much water in the first place?
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Crop-munching pests are traveling north as the climate changes
The beetles, moths, and fungi that chomp on crops and devastate forests are moving toward the North Pole at an average of 24 feet per day.
