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Digest – News: New label controversy, Chipotle toots humane horn, FDA still rumored to approve cloned food
"Naturally raised," our confined ass: Both the USDA and the FDA are reviewing and soliciting public comments for a proposed new label, "naturally raised," as distinct from "natural." The former would attest that the meat came from an animal free of antibiotics and growth hormones, which would be a plus (the existing label
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Local Burger on a mission to serve up fast, healthy, local food
In her two years in business, Hilary Brown has gotten more publicity for her Local Burger restaurant in Lawrence,
Digest – Blogs: Pork-barrel politicking, “drive-by” libertarianism, civil disobedience
A big CAFO-nie: Days after appointing the former president of the National Pork Producers Coalition to co-chair her "Rural Americans for Hillary" campaign, Clinton says she would support giving states and counties control over
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Digest – News: Bad pot pies; DDT linked to breast cancer; yo, Mexico — quiere Taco Bell?
And the latest entry in the contaminated-food sweepstakes is…: ConAgra Foods' Banquet turkey and chicken pot pies. ConAgra is not recalling the pies, which may be linked to 139 cases of salmonella in 30 states, but is offering mail-in refunds and store returns. Mighty nice of them. (AP) Now
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Digest – Commentary: Kingsolver in WashPo, Farm Bill action plans
We (heart) Barbara Kingsolver: The novelist and nest-selling locavore memoirist of late has a piece in the Washington Post about the train wreck of the industrial food system,. TYhink you've heard it all before? We hadn't. She's visited Indian ag actisist Vandana Shiva, who shared this interesting nugget
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Digest – Features: Deenosaur, urban farms, Pollan update
Paula, you make us puke: Celebrity chef Paula Deen has been very good for her sponsor Smithfield Foods, and the company, aka the Death Star of Pork, has been very good to her in return. She's entirely unfazed by how it treats its workers, whose union has staged protests at her appearances — and
Digest – News & commentary: Killer drought, piling on China, organic tomatoes healthier
NEWS "My salary is tied to how much it rains" (right): The wicked drought in the U.S. encompasses more than a dozen farm-reliant states as far north as Ohio and Indiana but is ravaging the Southeast, producing
Digest – News & Commentary: Stress + fast food = obesity; EU to plant GMOs
NEWS Stressed-out, supersized mice: Researchers have found the neurochemical pathway in mice that makes them fat when subjected to chronic stress and a junk-food diet. They've also found how blocking those signals can prevent fat accumulation and shrink fat deposits, "while stimulating the pathway can
Digest: Deadly sodas, China defends catfish, HFCS + fat = bad news
NEWS Big gulp, don't swallow: Research from a British university suggests sodium benzoate, a common preservative found in soft drinks, has the ability to switch off vital parts of DNA. The problem can eventually lead to cirrhosis of the liver and degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's. (The
Digest: Farmed fish eating melamine, too, clone wars getting uglier, fruits & veggies may get Farm Bill love
NEWS Farmed fish latest to be fed contaminated feed: The FDA has revealed that farmed fish were also fed meal spiked with melamine, the industrial chemical linked to the ongoing recall of pet foods, though — surprise!— "the contamination level was probably too low to pose a danger to anyone who may
Digest: Tomato pickers get raise, Norman Borlaug to the rescue, Wal-Mart retreats
There's a golf course worth of links coming at ya. Fore! Pennies add up: McDonald's has reached agreement with a Florida farmworkers organization to pay 1 cent more per pound for the tomatoes it buys from state farms. Think that's nothing? It's a 75 percent pay raise for the laborers. Time for Burger
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