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A Round of Applause for These 4 Pioneers in Sustainable Food
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Kelly
- 41 days ago - care2.com
Last week, NRDC announced the winners of the 2013 Growing Green Awards. These awards celebrate the farmers, business owners, and bold thinkers who are transforming America's food system. Each one of them has pioneered ways to provide food that nourishes
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Man   video
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Nancy
- 61 days ago - vimeo.com
A video from Steve Cutts. Thanx to Franco D for the link...
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Video:A Place at the Table Opens in Theaters March 1
Offbeat  (tags: food, risks, safety, children, diet, prevention, protection, nutrition, warning, performance, culture )

JL
- 81 days ago - nokidhungry.org
This week hunger and poverty take the national spotlight with the release of A Place at the Table, a new documentary film from Participant Media, producers of other award-winning films like Food, Inc. and Waiting for "Superman."
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Video:There Might Be Starving People In Africa, But What About The Cold People In Europe?
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JL
- 168 days ago - upworthy.com
You've probably seen those commercials on TV around the holidays that ask for donations to developing nations-- they inundate you with sad, starving children in hopeless conditions. This video turns that angle of charity guilt-sploitation on its head & m
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RSPCA Lends a Hand to United Kingdom's Fattest Dog - National Dogs | Examiner.Com
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Dianne Ly
- 258 days ago - examiner.com
A portly Labrador retriever, thought to perhaps be the fattest dog in the United Kingdom, is being slimmed down thanks to a restrictive diet and the help of the RSPCA.
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Why Do American Junk Food Giants Feel Urge To Force-Feed Us Titbit Sermons On Social Issues?
Offbeat  (tags: junk food, American fast food, politics, fatty, absurd, health care, Bible, Chick-fil-A, Papa John's, In-N-Out, congress, economy, diet, disease, consumers )

Naoko
- 276 days ago - japantimes.co.jp
We've got the Papa John's pizza guys weighing in on the health care debate, while the burger slingers out west at In-N-Out can't serve up a cheeseburger without a Bible verse.
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PLEASE SIGN Campaign to Save Earth's Honeybees! ACTION NEEDED
Offbeat  (tags: animals, bees, dying, price of food, increases, pesticides, destruction, nature, food, children, death, diet, animalwelfare, animaladvocates, animalrights, killing, suffering, society, shopping, health, business, organic )

Kelly
- 319 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
In fact, honeybee deaths are reaching a critical point, whereby it may not be possible to reverse the damage. The good news is that much of the population decline can be attributed to human actions, including the use of nicotine-based insecticides
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Forage Your Way Into Mushroom Season
Offbeat  (tags: mushrooms, autumn, fall, season, diet, nutrition, fungi, kinoko, Japan )

Naoko
- 605 days ago - search.japantimes.co.jp
Edible mushrooms are a feature of the fall season in temperate climates worldwide, and Japan is no exception.
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100 Great Twitter Feeds for Dinner Ideas
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Nancy
- 1050 days ago - onlinedegrees.net
Twitter offers budding chefs, culinary aficionados and everyday people the chance to find daily recipes that will be healthy, delicious and fun to make.
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Bald Eagles in Channel Islands Might Start Eating Endangered Wildlife, Researchers Say
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Simone
- 1115 days ago - latimes.com
A growing population of American bald eagles in Channel Islands National Park might eventually start feasting on rare seabirds and endangered island foxes, researchers reported Monday.
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Man 'Survives Without Food' For 70 Years
Offbeat  (tags: interesting, news, study, diet, food, bizarre, humans, interesting, world, society, unusual )

Mathew
- 1119 days ago - uk.news.yahoo.com
Indian doctors are studying a remarkable 83-year-old holy man who claims to have spent the last seven decades without food and water. Skip related content
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Overweight Hedgehogs Put on Diet
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, hedgehogs, ovrweight, diet, protection )

Cher
- 1136 days ago - abc.net.au
A Scottish animal rescue centre forced 12 hedgehogs to go on a diet because they had grown too fat to roll into a ball to protect themselves, it said Thursday
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Fat Albino Hedgehog Put on Diet
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, interesting, hedgehog, albino, fat, overweight, diet )

Beatrice
- 1253 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Snowball currently weighs 1.5 kilograms, compared to a normal hedgehog who weighs about 500 grams. He was taken to St Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital in Buckinghamshire by a member of the public after experts were called in to help shed his extra weigh
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Pepe Le HUGE: Pet Skunk on Strict Diet After Ballooning on Diet of Bacon Butties
Offbeat  (tags: animals, skunks, pets, diet, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 1331 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
A pet skunk has been put on a crash diet after ballooning to double his size - by scoffing bacon butties.
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22lb Cat Socrates Is Signed Up to the PDSA's Pet Fit Club
Offbeat  (tags: huge overweight cat, diet, losing weight, owner )

Simone
- 1336 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
His owner apparently hadn't noticed that Socrates was getting a little pudgy. As you can see from her face however, the vet's nurse realised straight away. At a whopping 22lb, the black and white heavyweight in Jenny Doig's arms is more than
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