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Report scrutinizes ties between Big Food, health organizations

By Janet • on November 2, 2009

Ignore the man behind the curtain: Reporters Rick Montgomery and Alan Bavley examine the “marriages of convenience” between unhealthy food producers

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Digest: Food reform, meals deformed, famine being formed

By Janet • on June 22, 2009

Prescription for better food; At the end of a review of Food Inc., Ed Bruske (friend of Ethicurean) offers

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Missouri’s Heartland Harvest Garden should inspire edible gardeners everywhere

By Janet • on June 16, 2009

If the whole "edible landscape" notion has failed to appeal to you, the Heartland Harvest

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Kansas Senate leaves rBST milk labels on ag committee floor

By Janet • on May 4, 2009

No crying over milk labeling: The Kansas Senate apparently won't even attempt to override former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius's veto of legislation (as described

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‘Killer’ movie tells who to charge for the large

By Janet • on April 22, 2009

"Killer at Large," a new documentary DVD, is a veritable banquet of obesity information, serving up copious

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CSA to deliver education along with produce

By Janet • on February 25, 2009

God willing and the creek don't rise, I'll be picking up my first CSA delivery of the year in late April. When I do, it will be the 16th consecutive spring

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PR debacle for HFCS: Care for some mercury with your oatmeal?

By Janet • on January 26, 2009

That much-debated sweetener, high-fructose corn syrup, is going to need more than a pricey PR campaign

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Sweet potatoes provide Kansans multiple culinary possibilities and new crop potential

One Kansas City-area program had lots of sweet potato plants, while another had people who know how to cook sweet-potato greens.

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Mini-Digest: Food stamps, belly cramps, and more

And make it snappy: USDA puts a new face on food stamps which, if you didn't know, are actually more like debit cards these

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Mini-digest: Frankenfoods, fisheries, and folly

Fast-growing feedlot salmon are just what the world needs: Not to worry — the agency that oversaw such drug debacles as Vioxx has issued rules on transgenic animals. Thanks, agribiz, for making sure

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Red alert! Americans are concerned about food safety!

Crank up the RSS feed! The news is out that Americans are worried about the safety of their food supply. This astonishing revelation comes to us via the Center for

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Foxes guarding the hen house, or how politics trumps qualifications at DHS

Did you hear the one about how our great, politically appointed bureaucrats bypassed better-qualified locations for the planned National Bio and

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Ain’t nobody here but us pigs…

At the rate food prices are increasing, maybe we don't need to worry about people overeating, but a report by

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EU fertilizes the organic agriculture sector

Do the Europeans know something we don't, or are they just more willing to act on it? First the European Union urged caution

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Mini-Digest: Monsanto wants to “save” the world, Kill Bill Vol. 247, SOLE research in the pipeline

You say crisis, we say …Croesus: Monsanto has launched a massive PR campaign (New York Times) promising to double the

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