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Highlights and questions from the Natural Products Expo West trade show

By • on May 6, 2011

In March I attended the Natural Products Expo West, one of the largest trade shows for the natural products industry. Produced by New Hope Natural Media, the show had hundreds of exhibitors promoting their products — companies looking for new distribution,

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S.F. restaurants experiment with wine on tap

By • on April 4, 2010

Kicking the bottle habit:  Instead of recycling bins overflowing with empty 750 mL bottles, you'll see reusable wine casks outside a handful of San Francisco restaurants. Long a tradition in Europe, these restaurants — which include such luminaries as Salt House, OTD, Delfina, and Frances — are

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Asia could teach U.S. some new corn tricks

By • on May 22, 2009

Thanks to fertile Midwestern plains, commodity-focused agricultural policy, a foreign policy that makes cheap petroleum a high priority, and an innovative agricultural industry, Americans are truly the 'people of the corn.' As the film "King Corn" and the book "The Omnivore's Dilemma" have well documented,

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Koreans crack open a cool, frosty dose of fiber

By • on May 18, 2009

As an observer of the American food scene, I see many instances of oddly supplemented foods and drinks, where everyday foods are dosed with antioxidants or vitamins or another supposedly healthful supplement to give its buyer a sense of healthy satisfaction. But there is always another surprise lurking

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BPA from bottles enters the human body

By • on May 15, 2009

The proof is in the pee? Bisphenol A (BPA) is suspected to be an endocrine disruptor and a potential cause of numerous chronic diseases, leading to various efforts to ban its use. A newly released study by researchers at Harvard and the Centers for Disease Control finds bottles made from BPA lead to

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Not milk: The ingredient behind the dairy crisis

By • on March 10, 2009

I have no idea what it would feel like to be a dairy farmer. I don't run a business that was started by my father or mother or grandparents, or that I built myself; I don't own and manage land that has been in my family for generations. Come to think of it, I've never really had to make a major business

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Digest – News: Label libel, Chiquita goes bananas, and another reason to stay off soda

By • on March 5, 2009

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Digest – News: Meat on the move, the chains of biotech, resources for organic

By • on February 22, 2009

Drop it like it's hot: Brazilian beef giant JBS, which snagged Smithfield's beef business last March, abandoned plans to purchase U.S. National Beef Packing Co. on Friday. The JBS/National Beef merger was under anti-trust investigation by the Justice Department, which celebrated JBS' decision and claimed

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Digest – Blogs: Sweet analysis, rural internet woes, good food in the city

By • on February 15, 2009

Never let them see you sweet: Tom Philpott looks into a new Tufts study that finds corn subsidies may have been a boon to the HFCS industry, but they alone don't make bad food cheap. Australia has similar obesity patterns but eats sugar instead. What we need to do, Tom says, is figure out "how to disincentivize

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Beer me: Trolling for craft brews in an ocean of Bud

By • on February 6, 2009

Out of fairness, I should begin this post by admitting that I do not actually like beer. Never a big drinker, when the urge hits, my tastes veer toward wine and, OK, a nip of whiskey. But just as I appreciate (and, in fact,

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Finding common grounds: a review of “Black Gold”

By • on January 7, 2008

How many cups of coffee do you drink during the day? Now, how many cups of coffee would you guess are consumed every day throughout the world? Not being a hard-core coffee drinker myself – one cup will usually satisfy me, if I even need that – I hadn't given the global coffee trade a whole

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Digest – Commentary: Bottle ballast, foxy argument

By • on December 30, 2007

California wines turned back in Ohio: Our blog-buddy Tyler Colman lands his "red, white, and green" wine carbon-footprint research in the Times' op-ed section. (New York Times) And a pheasant holiday to you too: Commentator

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Digest – Features: China’s toxic scale, food trends forecast

By • on December 17, 2007

Another way China is poisoning itself — fish: The latest installment in the NYT's "Choking on Growth" series paints yet another bleak portrait of the world's most populous country. China produces about 70 percent of the farmed fish in the world (and consumes most of it, for now), via

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Digest – Blogsnacks: Raw milk, Alice Waters updates; wine’s carbon footprint, defining local

By • on November 2, 2007

Calling all Californian raw-milk drinkers: David Gumpert is chronicling all the latest twists and turns in the shady saga of AB1735, the handful of words that may have consigned raw milk to the compost pile in California. A raw-food advocate plans to file a court injunction and launch a class action

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Digest – Features: A+ for bee-minus story, cattlemen no supertasters, farming is poisoning our drinking water

By • on October 17, 2007

Queen of the bees: Colony collapse disorder in U.S. bees "may have many contributing causes," writes Gina Covina in this terrific Ecology Center Terrain article posted on AlterNet, "but it comes down to bees hitting the biological

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