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The new New Urbanism incorporates food growing into urban planning

By • on July 8, 2010

Let's rurbalize it!: While "farming is the new golf," in terms of surburban developments incorporating communal food-growing operations into their scope,

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Arsenic found in Utah kids’ pee traced to their pet chickens’ feed

By • on July 8, 2010

Poison -  It's what's for breakfast!: A toxicologist for the Utah Department of Health tracked worrisome levels of arsenic in two children to the

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McDonald’s may be sued for Happy Meal toys

By • on June 24, 2010

Shrek drek: Do inexpensive plastic toys lure children--or their parents--into making unhealthy food choices? The Center for Science in the Public Interest

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Must read: Temple Grandin two-part interview

By • on June 24, 2010

Eats, chutes, and leaves: The well-known expert on humane slaughter dishes up several choice nuggets about how size and line speed aren't the determining

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Why Anthony Bourdain thinks Jamie Oliver is a hero

By • on June 21, 2010

Kid-food confidential: Anthony Bourdain may love foie gras, loathe Alice Waters and vegetarians, and enjoy tipping other sacred sustainable-foodie cows,

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Supreme court ruling not techically a victory for Monsanto after all

By • on June 21, 2010

Hype haymaker: "The sustainable agriculture world is abuzz today with news of the Supreme Court's ruling regarding an earlier lawsuit, brought by alfalfa

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Why we need to arm the EPA against toxic chemicals

By • on June 21, 2010

Silent scream: "In America, chemicals are innocent until proven guilty," writes Bejamin Ross in this fascinating summary of the FDA and the larger history

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EPA to increase oversight over CAFO manure

Thanks in part to a lawsuit from the Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club and Waterkeeper Alliance, the EPA has agreed to increase its oversight of manure discharges from concentrated animal

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Researchers trace corn’s ancient history

Children of the teosinte:  Even though maize (Zea mays) is perhaps the most important crop in the Americas (for better or worse), until recently, we didn't know where it came from and when it was domesticated.

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Industrial ag can’t get enough federal bucks?

Snow us the money! David Goldstein, Washington correspondent for McClatchy newspapers, reports that three senators are standing up for the poor, neglected industrial

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Michael Pollan on the rise of the food movement(s)

Pollan nation: In what is ostensibly a five-book review for the June 10 New York Review of Books, journalist Michael

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Ethicurean’s Marc interviewed on Berkeleyside

Marc my words: Ethicurean co-editor Marc Rumminger talks about which cookbook authors and local-food purveyors he admires for an interview on Berkeley

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Buyer beware this butcher’s bullshit

It's a sad and telling sign of the SOLE food movement's popularity, when people use the movement's principles to market their beef and hide the bullshit behind the counter.  As Matthew Richter

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Dairy cows’ feed exacerbates air pollution in central California

Although it has a relatively low population density, California's San Joaquin Valley has some of the worst air pollution in the nation,

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Russ Parsons looks beyond the farmers market

In an adaptation of his keynote address at the Small Farms Conference, Russ Parsons praises the farmers market — an institution that has had a "revolutionary effect" — but also calls it "one of the

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