food
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Labor of love: Domestic fair trade grows
Just like Fair Trade for international farms, the Food Justice Certified label is rewarding farms with fair labor practices inside the U.S.
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Green goo: Sustainable meat producers market their own ‘pink slime’
Food advocates have pushed back hard against the ammonia-doused fatty beef trimmings used by Big Ag as filler in meat products. But some local food producers are fighting fire with fire -- by making their own local, sustainable version of "pink slime."
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FDA on BPA: We need more time to think
In their belated response to a petition by the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Food and Drug Administration says it refuses to ban the chemical.
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Maple syrup-pocalypse arrives 20 years early
Scientists have been saying that maple syrup production could be devastated in 20 to 30 years, but this season's warm temperatures are so extreme that we're getting a taste of that state of the climate now.
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For New Yorkers, a farmers market on your phone
An experimental online marketplace hopes to fill two gaping holes in the community-supported agriculture business model: choice and convenience.
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Beekeepers to EPA: We’re running out of time
Over a million people have asked the EPA to remove the pesticide linked with honey bee die-offs from the market. Will the agency listen in time?
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Put your money where your mouth is: Funding food with Kickstarter
The online fundraising platform isn't just for artists and techies anymore; in 2011 alone, 241 successful Kickstarter food projects netted over $2.8 million.
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Who harvests your winter tomatoes? [VIDEO]
This moving episode of the Perennial Plate takes us to visit Lupe Gonzalo, a Florida tomato worker from Guatemala who talks openly about her hopes and struggles.
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The woman who took on Koch Industries to save her farm
The author of the new book Turn Here Sweet Corn talks about organic farming, rural development, and what it takes to fight big corporate money with people power.