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Do You Live In A Food Desert?
People do strange things when they're stranded in the desert. They eat bugs. They drink out of puddles. If help doesn't arrive quickly, they become malnourished and might even die. You might be…
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New Frankensalmon May Invade U.S.
Over the past several weeks, the US Department of Agriculture approved more genetically-engineered (GE) foods: Alfalfa (which becomes hay and then food for animals that becomes food for humans) …
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USDA Protects Tainted “Organic” Baby Foods
Good news is everywhere, if you know how to look. And I was on such a hunt for good news, I swear. Until I ran into a news alert published yesterday by the Cornucopia Institute, that I knew I coul…
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Annie’s Joins The Fight For Better School Lunches
In early 2011, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) proposed long-overdue upgrades to the nutrition standards for meals served through the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs as p…
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Goat Milk and Cheese – A Sustainable Alternative to Cow Dairy
I'm a big fan of goats. I've loved them ever since I visited a babysitter's family farm and got to feed one with a bottle when I was four. (It does occur to me now, that I was feeding a baby goat wi…
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Want to Buy Green? Look for Biobased
The USDA will launch a new labeling initiative in February designed to help consumers identify biobased products, which are commercial or industrial products whose main ingredients are renewable plant…
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Healthy School Lunches
Last—but not least!—health- and food-related news item as we reach the close of 2010 : the much-awaited 4.5-billion-dollar-budget child nutrition bill was voted and signed into law this month in W…
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Everything You Think You Know About “Natural Food” is Wrong
Last month, the ice cream giant Ben & Jerry's seemingly took a fall from grace. Long regarded as a progressive ice cream producer and a lover of social advocacy and jam bands (as if they had an option…
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Butter: In the Fridge or Safe to Leave Out?
A few years ago, while visiting friends in Vermont, I was the source of helpful annoyance. It seems my host was left constantly searching for the butter dish, as she was prone to leaving it out on the…
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Five Million Pounds of Meat Can’t Be Wrong, or Can It?
The truly shocking thing about the latest and exceptionally massive recall involving Huntington Meat Packing Inc. out of California (read the details here) is not the fact that more than five million …
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on Hummus is Taking Over
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I'll try to do it. I walk with my dogs "alone" and I talk with them. I'll invite my friend to come …
on Office Exercise: Try a Walking Meeting!
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Sounds interesting but the paper work may be a problem - I mean writing notes while you are walking.
on Office Exercise: Try a Walking Meeting!
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I do every day while taking and chatting to other dog walkers . try it in your town i,no one got t…
on Office Exercise: Try a Walking Meeting!
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Some people mix a drop of boiling water with the eggs for an omelet. I wrecked a saucepan of scramb…
on 8 Common Cooking Myths (Slideshow)
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