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Michigan food processors turn groundwater orange
Orange you glad I didn't say arsenic?: It's common practice among Michigan's fruit and vegetable processors to spray their untreated wastewater, heavy with sugars and salts, onto nearby fields. After years of putting up with the spraying, nearby residents are complaining that large processors like Birds Eye, Welch Juice, and Minute Maid (owned by Coke)
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Saving for college, one potato at a time
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Making Thyme combines fast with food — but real food, not foodlike substances
Editor's note: Please welcome our newest addition to the Ethicurean "team," Stephanie Pierce, who's written for us quite a lot as a guest contributor. A native of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Stephanie will soon be moving from Grand Rapids, MI,
Not too cool for gruel: Wyoming, MI schoolkids interested in showers, oatmeal
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Ethicureans, meet the Eggicureans: A visit to Michigan’s Crane Dance Farm
Mary tries to get the calves interested in the trailer It’s a Wednesday morning and instead of firing up my computer, my cool company is letting me spend
