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• Warming Sea Temperatures Drive Cod Away From Cape

  
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  roytsaplinjrs Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Warming sea temperatures are driving Cape Cod’s namesake fish farther from Massachusetts shore as they seek colder waters farther out and deeper in the ocean, forcing fishermen to seek alternative catches.  Growing up just outside of Boston I enjoyed plenty of ...
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• Urban Farming In The South Bronx

  
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  addictive_picassos Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Urban farming has become increasingly popular these days, as more city dwellers search for rooftops, backyards and abandoned lots where they can grow vegetables.  In addition to providing fresh, healthy produce where concrete and convenience stores once ...
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• Martha Stewart Visits Brooklyn and Rooftop Farms

  
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  It’s hard not to love Martha Stewart. I mean she promote awesome things like eating well, cooking and crafting. Plus, she was one of Food, Inc ’s early champions sharing her love for the film with all of her Twitter followers! Well I am happy to report that Martha is now championing another project near and ...
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• School Lunch Food Fight Ends In Arrest of 25 Chicago Students

  
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  cornelluniversitylibrarys Flickr photostream/Creative Commons We take school lunch very seriously here at TakePart, particularly efforts to increase access to healthy, local ingredients, but a Chicago middle-school may have gone a little overboard when they had 25 students arrested for a cafeteria food fight .  ...
  4 days ago

• Looks like we got ourselves a dialectic

  
  Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog — Authority: 477
  Oglio, a third generation farmer eschews modern farming techniques — chemicals, fertilizers, heavy machinery — in favor of a purely natural approach. It is not just ecological, he says, but profitable, and he believes his system can be replicated in starving regions of the globe. Nearly 5,000 miles (8,000 km) ...
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• H1N1 Flu and Pork Production Connection Raised By Jonathan Safran Foer

  
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  kevinhutchinsons Flickr photostream/Creative Commons The vaccine for the H1N1 virus has received quite a bit of attention lately, however, important questions remain unattended about the origins of the vicious strain and the likely possibility that it spread from unsanitary conditions on factory pig farms.  ...
  5 days ago

• Embracing Cooking and My Camera

  
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  I moved into a new apartment last weekend and with all the positive energy that comes from being in a new space I made a resolution to eat less processed food and to cook more.  It is SO easy to eat out here in New York City (and anywhere really) and all too often I get lazy and eat food that is processed and that I ...
  6 days ago

• Nibbles: Forest fires, integration

  
  Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog — Authority: 477
  Fire-fighters should heed forest diversity . Now there’s a thought. “Resilient integration of industrial and organic agriculture.” Now there’s a thought.
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• Farmer Veteran Coalition: Tanks to Tractors

  
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  markpeates Flickr photostream/Creative Commons The Farmer Veteran Coalition is an amazing organization that provides U.S. veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with the resources, tools and mentorships to help them find employment in farming communities around the country. I was thrilled to hear about the ...
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• FDA Cracks Down On Misleading “Smart Choices” Food Labels

  
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  mikelichts Flickr photostream/Creative Commons The FDA has announced plans to investigate the “Smart Choices” initiative, an industry-led nutrition labeling program, arguing that the labels may mislead the public by implying that sugary foods are healthy. I’m amazed that the “Smart Choices” label has ...
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• Jon Stewart as Glenn Beck on Appendicitis

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 607
  Glenn Beck is almost always super frustrating to watch.  And while I try not to post about too often because it seems like it would just be giving him more of a platform, I was so enraged by his rant on vegetarianism and Meatless Monday’s last week that I couldn’t help but respond with a post. Well, I’ve ...
  1 week ago

• Nibbles: Climate, Fertilizers

  
  Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog — Authority: 477
  Sustainable Agriculture: The Unrecognized Key to Reversing Climate Change . Unrecognized by whom? Fred Pearce says: Cold turkey on nitrogen , now. It’s our only hope.
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• The Cove and Food, Inc. Receive Cinema Eye Honors Nominations

  
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  The 2010 Cinema Eye Honors Nominees have been named and I am very very happy to report that The Cove has received a record-tying 7 nominations! It got nominations in the Production, Cinematography, Editing, Original Score, Debut Feature and the top prize, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking ...
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• BPA Found In Canned Foods

  
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  stevendepolos Flickr photostream/Creative Commons New research from Consumer Reports reveals that many canned foods , including soups, juice and vegetables, contain measurable levels of Bisphenol-A (BPA), a chemical that has been linked to a wide array of health issues such as reproductive abnormalities, cancer, ...
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• Genesis of the USDA’s National Organic Program

  
  Cooking Up A Story: A Show about People, Food, and Sustainable Living — Authority: 484
  How the Federal Government came to regulate the organic industry My previous column on the history of organic agriculture wrapped up with a look at the burgeoning national market that emerged during the 1980’s. Counterculture back-to-the-landers and die-hard traditionalist farmers were raising crops and ...
  1 week ago

• Food, Inc. Classroom Discussion Guide Now Available

  
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  The official Food, Inc. Discussion Guide is now available for download providing teachers with the resources to guide classroom conversations about the eye-opening documentary for student audiences, high school age and older.  The snazzy and impressively thorough 103-page guide was developed by the Center for ...
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• Depression Linked To Eating Processed Foods

  
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  ?o??ƒx™s Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Eating a diet high in processed food has been shown to increase the risk of depression according to a new study from the UK. Personally I’ve found that I feel more sluggish and down when I eat additive-laden sweets and fried foods, compared with the brightness and ...
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• Fall for Garlic, Surprise Spring

  
  FoodCycles — Authority: 111
  (Photo via Shepherd’s Notebook ) Les amis, you’re all invited to come and plant garlic with the FoodCycles crew Sat Nov 7, starting 10 am to 2 pm – directions are http://bit.ly/1GYyWQ . Please RSVP by Doodle ( http://doodle.com/5a9hztg32tmptgdc ) or email foodcycles@gmail.com . Check out the full post ...
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• FoodCycles for “A” Soil Education

  
  FoodCycles — Authority: 111
  Vince McDermott did a short video on what FoodCycles does! Wow, he got a whole tour down to the “T” – haha, I couldn’t even pull that off. Get the full video at FoodCycles.org . Posted in Agriculture, Community Development, Compost, Environment & Sustainability, Food, Food Security, Food Sovereignty, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Glenn Beck Takes on Vegetarians

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 607
  Speaking of Fox News former TakePart blogger Kerry Truman just alerted me (via Twitter ) to a frustrating rant from Glenn Beck about vegetarianism ( which seems to be all over the place these days ). In it Beck expresses his disgust with Meatless Mondays ( whom we love here at TakePart ) a group that recently ...
  2 weeks ago

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