PR debacle for HFCS: Care for some mercury with your oatmeal?
That much-debated sweetener, high-fructose corn syrup, is going to need more than a pricey PR campaign to fix this one. After one set of scientists
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‘Revolution’ off to contentious and hopeful start
The ABC preview of "Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution” Sunday night has me modestly
Report scrutinizes ties between Big Food, health organizations
Ignore the man behind the curtain: Reporters Rick Montgomery and Alan Bavley examine the “marriages of convenience” between unhealthy food producers
Digest: Food reform, meals deformed, famine being formed
Prescription for better food; At the end of a review of Food Inc., Ed Bruske (friend of Ethicurean) offers
Missouri’s Heartland Harvest Garden should inspire edible gardeners everywhere
If the whole "edible landscape" notion has failed to appeal to you, the Heartland Harvest
Kansas Senate leaves rBST milk labels on ag committee floor
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
"Killer at Large," a new documentary DVD, is a veritable banquet of obesity information, serving up copious
CSA to deliver education along with produce
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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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.
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
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
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
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
