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• Kellogg’s cereal H1N1 ‘Immunity’ claim: misleading advertisement cashing in on the pandemic paranoia of swine flu?

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 605
  Blame it on the propagandized paranoia over the supposedly pandemic level of Influenza A (H1N1), otherwise known as swine flu. Parents’ fears may be sending them to the grocery store to stock on Kellogg’s Cocoa Krispies that boasts in its advertising such immunity-boosting powers of its cereal product. It seems ...
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• Hunger’s Solution Might Not Be Found at the FAO World Summit on Food Security

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 593
  Big news came on Friday, when the USDA announced that Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan would lead the United States delegation to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations Ministerial Conference in Rome, Italy, taking place this week from November 18-23. She will chair the ...
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• BPA Is In Your Canned Food

  
  Eat. Drink. Better. — Authority: 515
  Bisphenol A (BPA) has gotten a lot of press recently, from infant formula to Sigg bottles , it’s everywhere.  But did you know that it’s also in your canned foods, especially canned tomato products, pasta sauces, and vegetables? BPA is a compound used to manufacture plastics and has been in mainstream use for ...
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• FDA Backs Off On Plan to Ban Some Gulf Oysters

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 727
  photo: The Nature Conservancy The Food and Drug Administration announced today that it will back off on its plan to ban as of 2011 the sale of raw oysters from the Gulf Coast during part of the year because they have been linked with about a dozen annual deaths from poisoning. The move met stiff resistance from ...
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• Get the word out on FAD

  
  Green Options — Authority: 146
      I knew little about Foreign Animal Disease (FAD) when I walked into a Wisconsin Department of Agriculture (DATCP) talk on the subject Nov. 3 at the Microbial Sciences Center on the UW-Madison campus.  Here is a description of foot-and-mouth disease, an example of FAD, from www.cattletoday : Foot-and-Mouth ...
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• Kitchen Table Talks No. 6: What You Need to Know About Genetically Engineered Food

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 593
  For the sixth installment of Kitchen Table Talks on Oct. 27, about 60 people gathered at the SUB-Mission Gallery in the Mission District of San Francisco to hear renowned U.C. Berkeley Microbial Ecologist Ignacio Chapela and Center for Food Safety attorney Zelig Golden for a lively conversation about the ...
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• Weight Loss Surgery News – November 13, 2009

  
  Weight Loss Surgery Channel — Authority: 424
  Watch this week’s WLS News for details on a report showing massive cutbacks in school fitness programs. Also, learn more about how some obese people are at a high risk for septic shock, find out how a new drug designed for diabetics is helping people with weight loss, and discover how a high-fat diet can [...]
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• Grain Trader Calls Food Self Sufficiency Efforts "Nonsense"

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 727
  The Wheeler-Evans Grain Elevator in Groom, Texas. Image credit: TexasScapes. , Noel KernsNo way a transnational company like Cargill feels its markets are threatened by the US locavore movement. How, though, do we explain a top executive at the Maryland-based grain trader stating that the notion that countries ...
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• Should Chocolate Milk Be Banned?

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 787
  A food fight is brewing in the school cafeteria, and this time, it’s promises to be much nastier than the one that got those kids jailed : The milk industry clearly doesn’t want chocolate milk to go the way of the soda can in schools. Sure, a serving of chocolate milk has 60 more calories, but kids love it, so ...
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• The Copenhagen Conference on Food Security

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 727
  Old Mother Hubbards Cupboard Was Bare. Image credit: StoryBookLane For the 193 national delegations gathering in Copenhagen for the U.N. Climate Change Conference in December, the reasons for concern about climate change vary widely. For delegations from low-lying island countries, the principal concern is rising ...
  5 days ago

• 7 Highlights (and a Few Lowlights) in Food Since President Obama Was Elected

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 727
  Photo credit: foxypar4 via Flickr Just about one year ago, Barack Obama was elected to be the 44th President of the United States. Proclaiming change across the board, Obama swept in to office on a wave of hope and optimism for millions of people, and his mandate for change created some pretty high expectations for ...
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• World Hunger

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 135
  More and Better : World Summit on Food Security 16-18 November 2009 IISD Daily Reports Feeding the Future - IPS Special Report M ore than 1 billion people suffer hunger today, according to the UN. A crucial part of this complex problem is food production and distribution. Is it possible to increase food ...
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• Europe Moves to Allow Import of Three Varieties of Genetically Modified Corn, Risking Contamination

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 593
  Last week, the European Commission made the decision to allow three types of genetically modified corn to enter the European Union, where genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have been banned in six countries (Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary and Luxembourg), and where zero tolerance has been the rule for ...
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• Agriculture, food & climate change

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 135
  Lessons from the Green Revolution ; Green Revolution: Curse or Blessing? ; Agriculture & Food ; (International Food Policy Research Institute) Agriculture and climate change: An agenda for negotiation in Copenhagen ; Global Treaty on Climate Change ; Climate Change (that is, Global Warming) and ...
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• What are the Best Organic Fruits and Veggies?

  
  Eat. Drink. Better. — Authority: 515
  One issue that’s come to my attention since I started thinking more about my food is the debate about organic foods — are they healthier, and is the cost worth the potential benefits? I’d love to buy organic food all the time, but it’s just not financially possible for me right now. That said, I believe in ...
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• Attack of the Genetically Modified Flax Seed

  
  Eat. Drink. Better. — Authority: 515
  Nope, it’s not a spooky tale left over from Halloween. After word got out that Canada’s flax seed crops had been cross-contaminated with a genetically modified variety, the country’s entire flax industry is in peril. Read more of this story »
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• Deputy Secretary of Ag Merrigan Live on Facebook Today

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 593
  Today, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan holds her second chat on Facebook at 3pm eastern time, part of the Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food initiative. Go here to watch it live . The focus of today’s chat will be a discussion around getting food from farmers to local schools, what has become ...
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• Be Patient, Food Activists (But Keep Pushing)

  
  The Big Money — Authority: 712
  It is the job of activists to never be content, even when things are generally going their way. In that light, Paula Crossfields critique of the Obama administrations food-policy initiatives seems reasonable enough. People who were "hoping for deep improvements in our food system can point to only a few successes, ...
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• The Obama Administration and Food, Year One

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 593
  A year after America voted for the change-agent they saw in Barack Obama, advocates hoping for deep improvements in our food system can point to only a few successes, while other policies that could lead to food insecurity are brewing in back rooms. Nearly two years ago, candidate Obama said the following in a ...
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• Tests Find Wide Range of Bisphenol A in Canned Soups, Juice, and More

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 593
  Consumer Reports’ latest tests of canned foods, including soups, juice, tuna, and green beans, have found that almost all of the 19 name-brand foods tested contain measurable levels of Bisphenol A (BPA). The results are reported in the December 2009 issue and also available online . BPA, which has been used for ...
  2 weeks ago

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