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• Voting With Your Mouth

  
  Bitten — Authority: 521
  A couple of discussions between me and Ezra Klein (a Washington Post columnist specializing in economics with a special interest in food policy, and a friend), on blogginheads.tv.
  16 hours ago

• New Documentary “Tapped” Makes Bottled Water Look All Wet

  
  Green Options — Authority: 149
  While watching the new documentary “Tapped ” with some of my other Greenies, we glanced at each other when one of the water rights experts used a notable quote courtesy of Mark Twain, “Whiskey is for sipping and water is for fighting.” So true, and the fighting will only get worse at least if you believe the ...
  17 hours ago

• Attacking the Salt Problem

  
  Eat. Drink. Better. — Authority: 548
  The British Medical Journal recently published an analysis on the effects of too much salt in our diets . According to their research, which looked at 13 studies from 1966 to 2008: Read more of this story »
  19 hours ago

• GMO Bans, Laws, and Labels from Around the World

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 686
  Photo credit: David Gould / Getty Images Prince Charles has called them the "biggest environmental disaster of all time," while agriculture industrialists like Monsanto swear theyre safe for human consumption and a boon for the environment. Genetically modified foods are nothing if not controversial, and that ...
  19 hours ago

• Agriculture, food & climate change

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 137
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• Senator Feinstein on Processed Food Safety Act

  
  Food Poison Journal — Authority: 128
  Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today introduced legislation to require that food producers take responsibility for keeping food free from harmful pathogens. The bill would amend the Poultry Products Inspection Act, the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the sale ...
  2 days ago

• Segoe Symposium On Smart Growth

  
  Cincinnati Locavore — Authority: 128
  The Segoe Symposium on Smart Growth at the University of Cincinnati on December 10th will feature a panel discussing the formation of the Greater Cincinnati Regional Food Policy Council, followed by Kami Pothukuchi, PhD, speaking about SEED Wayne (Sustainable Food Systems Education and Engagement in Detroit and ...
  2 days ago

• Two-Thirds of Chicken Tested Harbor Dangerous Bacteria

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 566
  Consumer Reports’ latest test of fresh, whole broilers bought in 22 states reveals that two-thirds of birds tested harbored salmonella and/or campylobacter, the leading bacterial causes of food-borne disease. The report reveals that organic “air-chilled” broilers were among the cleanest and that Perdue was ...
  3 days ago

• Should Food Stamps Be Used To Buy Organic Food?

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 686
  Grocery cart undecided. Image credit: Keith B. Evans , at Simple Gallery. Excerpt. Washington Post has covered the rapid growth of Food Stamp use in recent months. While the Reagan-era stigma attached to public aid in the form of "Food Stamps" seems to have faded in the face of spreading US unemployment, ...
  4 days ago

• Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney to tell EU: ‘Less meat means less heat’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Nov.29 (ANI): Former Beatle Paul McCartney has said that he will interrupt his European concert tour to tell world leaders how eating less meat can lead to less heat.Throwing his weight behind a growing campaign to address global warming by reducing the amount of meat we eat, McCartney will fly to Brussels on ...
  5 days ago

• Giving Thanks, an American Tradition

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 566
  What do the Pilgrims, George Washington, Sarah J. Hale, and Abraham Lincoln all have in common? Hint: they liked heritage breed turkeys. Yes, they all contributed to the formation of the national Thanksgiving Day holiday. We all know the pilgrim story. Some may not know that President Washington offered the first ...
  1 week ago

• White House Releases Turkey Pardon Spoof Then Does The Real Thing

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 686
  Youve got to wonder if this is what we want our tax dollars going to? Anyway, the White House put out a spoof yesterday morning of the traditional presidential pardon of a turkey for Thanksgiving. The video follows a path through the White House, right into the Oval... Read the full story on TreeHugger
  1 week ago

• Kids Crave Unhealthy Breakfast Cereal

  
  Weight Loss Surgery Channel — Authority: 128
  Kids crave breakfast cereals that are the most unhealthy for them, a new study from Yale University shows. Watch this week’s WLS News to find out more.A report from Yale University shows that the breakfast cereals most unhealthy for your kids are the ones they want the most.The report comes after a study on the [...]
  1 week ago

• Unique Food Safety Conference Tomorrow - Dr. David Kessler, William Marler Highlight Day-Long Conference

  
  Food Poison Journal — Authority: 128
  November 20, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) and American University Washington College of Law will sponsor a day-long conference focusing on problems with the current food safety system in America, and how to improve it. The conference, Empowering Employees to Protect Food Integrity, starts at 9:30 a.m. ...
  1 week ago

• 8 Steps Obama Could Take to Save Food

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 566
  The landscape of health has changed. No longer are our families guaranteed a healthy livelihood, not in the face of the current rates of cancer, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer’s and allergies. In the words of Elizabeth Warren , Harvard University law professor who is head of the Congressional Oversight Panel, “We ...
  2 weeks ago

• Food Safety: Another Benefit of Healthy School Lunch Programs?

  
  Eat. Drink. Better. — Authority: 548
  At the risk of sounding repetitive, I’d like to add to the growing list of the benefits for healthy school lunches and school lunch reform that we blogged about yesterday. On Tuesday, USA TODAY ran an investigative story about tainted school lunches that shows how safety lapses in food production or ...
  2 weeks ago

• USDA Data Reveals Record 49 Million Hungry in America in 2008

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 566
  The USDA has released its data for hunger [pdf] in the United States, and the numbers aren’t good. In 2007, 36 million people were classified ‘food insecure’. In 2008, the figure was 49 million — an increase of 13 million. Children were badly affected, though older children took the hit if they had younger ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Case for Healthy School Lunches

  
  Eat. Drink. Better. — Authority: 548
  The Child Nutrition Act is up for renewal and Congress has extended the deadline to early 2010. We’ve talked before about the pitiful school lunch situation in the U.S. and about how you can help advocate healthy lunches for healthy kids . What we haven’t really covered are the whys. Are the benefits of ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Global Analysis: Is Biotechnology Really the Only Way to Solve Hunger?

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 566
  The World Summit on Food Security convened in Rome this week, where world leaders discussed how best to combat worsening worldwide hunger and escalating food prices. Biotechnology has historically been a part of the debate. As a polarizing subject, biotechnology has no peer. On the one hand, it has potential ...
  2 weeks ago

• The global harvest

  
  Green Options — Authority: 149
  As Thanksgiving approaches, we tend to focus more on what we have to be grateful for.  We have a bountiful food supply, symbolized at this time of year by horns of plenty, Turkey Day feasts at our tables and in trade magazines from Country Living to Better Homes and Gardens, among others. The stewardship of sending ...
  2 weeks ago

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