food
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Would you eat mutant meat?
The FDA does Big Meat a solid by denying broader use of irradiation, which kills disease but leads to discolored and disfigured food.
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Why it's so hard to reform the food system, explained in one chart
It's very hard to make change in the food system in an environment where wages are flat and couples (read: women) are working more hours.
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Going rogue: USDA may have just opened the GMO floodgates
Did the USDA just open the floodgates to unlimited, unregulated planting of new genetically engineered crops? It sure looks that way.
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Plastic purge: Homemade tortillas and hummus
We don't need no stinkin' plastic! We made our own tortillas. And hummus, too.
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Michigan woman could face jail time for growing a garden
The green movement doesn't have much use for lawns. Yeah, they make suburban enclaves look tidy and uniform, but really, would it be so effing bad if your house had something useful -- say, a vegetable garden -- instead of a high-maintenance water-hog outdoor carpet? What's the worst that could happen? Well, as Michigan woman Julie Bass discovered, if your city planner is certifiably power-crazy, you could be looking at 93 days in jail.
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Land of the freegan, home of the brave
For a freegan, the world is a grocery store, and everything is marked 100 percent off. I go dumpster diving with a few intrepid New Yorkers who are living the freegan dream.
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Whew: FDA confirms E. Coli in food is illegal
Food safety advocate Bill Marler has served as one of the most persistent voices covering the deadly German E. coli outbreak and warning that the same thing could happen in the U.S. One of his concerns comes from the fact that the FDA has been cagey about exactly which of the many disease-causing strains of E. coli are considered illegal in food.
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Stock up on wine and bacon before climate change gets worse
Hippies have been fighting for awareness and action on global warming for a long time, but now yuppies and hipsters will have to join in. In the last week we've gotten news that bacon prices will soar and California wines will suffer due to inhospitable crop-growing conditions. It's one thing to live in a slowly crumbling world, but to live in it without bacon or wine? Now it's SERIOUS.
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GOP votes against food safety — again
The House voted to kill the USDA's Microbiological Data Program, which tests produce for pathogens like E. coli.