organic food
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The complicated science of organic food, in one awesome podcast
If you eat food, don't miss the latest episode of Science Vs.
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Does organic food make you a jerk?
New research says organic food makes you rude and selfish. We investigate this "provocative" study.
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Critical List: Eating organic makes people judgey; U.S. selling drones to Iraq to protect oil
Eating organic food makes people more judgmental about others’ actions and less altruistic, according to a totally bogus study. The U.S. is selling drones to Iraq to protect oil exports. White-tailed deer are eating so many leaves, they’re keeping migratory birds from being able to build their nests.
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Kashi promises (some) ‘natural’ products will be GMO-free
One benefit of having every food product in existence owned by big corporations? Big corporations are super touchy about their reputations. So when the internet got all up in arms about Kashi’s “natural” cereals being less than fully organic/GMO-free/grown by fairies, the brand (owned by Kellogg Company) announced pretty quickly that it would change its […]
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Will organic free trade really do a world of good?
We're all for trading organic food with the European Union, but let's not forget about food miles.
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Organic food is not always sustainable food
Good food, as we've come to know it in that last few years, has a few characteristics: It's local. It's grown using responsible, land-loving techniques, like crop rotations and polycultures. And it's organic, raised without chemical fertilizers and poison pesticides. At one point, “organic” was shorthand for all of that, because the same people who cared enough to grow their vegetables with manure cared about environmental sustainability and tended to be local.
But now “organic” can be shorthand only for adherence to a certain set of rules that outlaw certain concentrations of certain types of fertilizers and pesticides, and as the New York Times points out, it sometimes doesn't mean much else. -
‘Organic water’ is a thing now
A German brand of bottled water called BioKristall has gotten the official go-ahead to market itself as organic water. That's right, not a single pesticide was used to keep away the insects that feed on water crops, and it didn't need any chemical fertilizer either. Thank goodness SOMEBODY cares about our health. Okay, now all […]
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God's country: Farming for spiritual reasons [VIDEO]
Perennial Plate follows a family in central Ohio that farms for spiritual reasons.
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Buy a dozen, give a dozen
What happens when the TOMS Shoes -- get a pair, give a pair -- model gets applied to food? A New York program is trying it out with pastured eggs.