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Tuna or not-tuna: more questions for sushi eaters

By • on December 18, 2009

When you think about eating endangered

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The little fish that we can: California’s sardine industry, now and then

By • on December 9, 2009

When the subject of Monterey, California, comes up, most people

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There Be Dragons: Examining the alternatives to unsustainable aquaculture fish feed

By • on November 22, 2009

February 23, 2010 update: I discovered that the credit for the grasshopper photo was incorrect.

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New research on aquaculture industry reveals murky waters surrounding fish-feed issue

By • on October 19, 2009

The products of aquaculture, the farming of sea creatures and plants, are often divided into "bad fish" — piscavores, like salmon, that eat more pounds

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Behavioral economics and the food system

By • on October 12, 2009

The human mind is fascinating. Understanding how we make decisions, how we form preferences, how we think about the future is not only intellectually interesting,

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Mapping Markets and Organic Demand

By • on September 17, 2009

Today is “Direct Markets” day for the USDA’s new “Know

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Life Lab creates farm-to-school learning programs

By • on September 15, 2009

Today is "Farm to Institution" day for the

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‘Eating In’ for Better Food in Schools

I went to a Slow Food USA "Eat In" at the foot of San Francisco's magnificent City Hall on Monday, one of several hundred events

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Scientists buzzing about pesticides’ and pathogens’ role in bee deaths

Busy bees: Washington State University researchers think they might have found a cause of colony collapse disorder, the mysterious malady that has been wiping out bee colonies around the world. They propose

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Concentration in the food industry not a concern, says new GAO report

In recent years, farmers have received an ever-decreasing share of the retail dollar, even during recent spikes

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Checking in on the agricultural check-off programs

Standing in front of a 50-foot tall display of potatoes, mushrooms, beef jerky, and other agricultural products at the 2009 All-American Farm Expo in Modesto, CA recently, Secretary of Agriculture Tom

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Educating the public about toxins in white croaker fish

Don't croak early, SoCal fishermen!: Thanks to unregulated dumping of DDT and PCBs into Southern California sewers between the 1950s and '70s, fish caught off-shore from Los Angeles can have high concentrations

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“Dirt”-y movie tells how we’ve sold our soils

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Modern therapy for the LOHAS set

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