food
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Cheap, genetically engineered salmon sushi, coming soon!
The only thing that stands between us and eating fish riddled with genes that some dude spliced together in the lab is the Office of Management and Budget. The FDA has finished its evaluation of genetically engineered salmon and recommended that the fish be commercialized.
The GE fish grows fast and big, which means more fish for all of us. But it also could have worrisome impacts on the environment, because it's a fish that we programmed in order to bend its entire existence to our will! -
Food Studies: the taste-testers' blind spots
Why taste tests conducted in controlled environments don’t tell the whole story.
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Welcoming invasive species, while keeping terrorists out
Since Sept. 11, the Department of Homeland Security has scaled back efforts to protect the nation from destructive, invasive pests. How secure do you feel now?
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USDA pushes veggies, but subsidizes meat
The Washington Post reports that the USDA's nutrition guidelines are seriously out of step with food subsidies. The government recommends people eat fruits and veggies as nearly half their daily intake, and protein as less than a quarter — but they subsidize meat in totally different proportions. We whipped up this little graphic to compare […]
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Could you go without processed foods for a month?
For even the most health conscious among us, a diet free of processed foods presents a challenge. Give it a try this month.
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Is Walmart allergic to Pollan?
Food guru Michael Pollan goes toe-to-toe with a Walmart VP to ask: Can the processed food giant ever be a friend to food reformers?
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Food Studies: Can we prove Malthus wrong?
After a year of plant science studies, the agricultural landscapes of Laos are a call to revolution. Green revolution.
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Kickstarting on-demand heirloom produce
A new online project takes the traditional CSA model one step further by allowing eaters to help decide what heirloom produce farmers plant.
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Labor pains on the farm
Farmers hoping to battle the Great Recession by hiring out-of-work locals in lieu of legal migrants struggle to keep them on the farm. Americans may have gone "soft," but rural depopulation is the root of the problem.