food
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Peebottle Farms: Have eggs, will barter
What's a girl with a constant stream of backyard eggs to do -- aside from conditioning her hair with the yolks? Why barter, of course.
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Chow-to: Stop worrying and love your kitchen timer
Getting used to cooking while doing other things does more than save you time. It changes your eating habits, making it easier to go green in the kitchen.
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Climate change could cause a chocolate shortage
Chocolate lovers have two decades to consume all the Godiva they can before climate change drinks their milkshake. After that, global warming will cause production to dwindle in current cocoa-producing regions, like Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, according to a new study by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture.
That doesn't necessarily mean that humanity will lose chocolate, though. It just might have to come from somewhere else.
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Genius shopping cart gizmo helps you eat local
This shopping cart attachment lets you compare the food miles on your purchases in a way that's quick, easy to interpret, and less complicated than the self-checkout. That is cool as hell! Also, this demonstration video, which was made for a conference, is a complete hoot. (I am a sucker for a British accent, though.)
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Food Studies: The life of an airline chef
Meet the people behind the plastic trays.
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We can feed 10 billion of us, study finds — but it won’t be easy
A new study in Nature says the world can feed itself without ruining the planet -- if we make major adjustments now to how we farm and eat.
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What do you know about GMOs? [Infographic]
October is National Non-GMO Month. Brush up on your GMO knowledge with this handy infographic.
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Record heat will rob us of peanut butter
Start getting accustomed to nothing and jelly sandwiches, Fluffernothings, and Reese's Nothing Cups. Record temperatures and droughts are projected to drive the price of peanut butter through the roof, with wholesale costs going up by as much as 40 percent, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Ocean of trouble: Report warns of offshore fish farming dangers
In light of the FDA's recent approval of genetically engineered salmon, the latest Food & Water Watch report on open-ocean aquaculture might leave some advocates feeling a little clammy.