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Focus on Food: Growing a Local, Sustainable Supply Chain
There was a time when grain for bread was grown and milled locally in Southern Ontario. But that tradition has long past, forcing Toronto-based bakery Stonemill Bakehouse to source the ingredients for its healthy artisanal breads from Western Canada, the U.S. or even abroad. When the bakery looked at their carbon footprint they found that transporting ingredients to their facility in the Greater Toronto Area was their second biggest source of emissions. The company's solution is something not every food-related business is currently attempting: bakery owner Gottfried Boehringer has purchased a 100-acre farm in Prince Edward County, Onta...
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The Nuclear Forest Recovery Zone
"The enormity and unprecedented nature of this combined natural and human-made disaster will require a massive and com...
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Millions Against Monsanto March, Washington DC March 26
Consumers deserve a choice of whether or not to purchase genetically modified foods. Monsanto says that we have that c...
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Nuclear Fallout of Japan's Food System
Early this morning, the news came swiftly: radiation had been detected on the California coast. Moments later, another...
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USDA Gives The OK To Japanese Food Imports
Japanese food is delicious and usually very healthy, clean, simple and elegant. And while it isn't a significant intere...
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McDonald's Latest Green(ish) Initiative
McDonald's recently announced a new sustainability initiative with the stated goal of ensuring that the food they sourc...
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Road Trip: Perennial Plate Goes National
The Perennial Plate, an online series of documentary shorts featuring local eating and exploration based out of Minneso...
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Own The Food, Own The World
Those that own the food, own the people. Most of us understand the dangers in patenting staple seed crops like corn, w...
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Coffee and Climate Change
The Coffee Cooperative of Dota (Coopedota) just announced that they will be exporting the world's first batch of carbo...
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Organic Seed And Development
Over the course of a conversation with a reader, there was some discussion about seed patents, development and organics...
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Accountable vs. Organic
For the past three years I have been fortunate enough to be a shareholder in a Community Supported Agriculture plan her...
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Bittersweet: How Kraft's Acquisition of Cadbury Ended the Dynasty of a CSR Luminary
Kraft boss Irene Rosenfield has infuriated British MPs by once again snubbing them and refusing to show her face during...
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Food Fight: Why Agricultural Policy is Caught in an Urban-Rural Culture War
"I took it as a slam on rural America" US Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said to economic policy blogg...
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GOP Budget Cuts to Hurt Farmers and Consumers
The Republican-led House has proposed ill conceived cuts to the federal budget which will disincentivize farms from mov...
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We're Not Responsible For Your Choices, Right?
It doesn't even surprise me to hear the utter, inexcusable nonsense pasted all over Monsanto's website anymore. It seem...
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GMOs, Hunger And Predatory Practices
It's a vicious cycle, Vandana Shiva explains, how indebtedness to large seed supplying corporations puts third world f...
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Sustainable Propaganda
This has to be one of the most brazen falsified statements about sustainable agriculture that has ever passed my primar...
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The Price of Hunger: Rising Food Costs Hit Home
Tens of millions of Americans are still unable to afford enough food to feed their families, according to new data rele...
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Food: A Project Envision Documentary
This little documentary is only about a half hour long, but it does brush across the general scope of the problem of in...
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Water, Water Everywhere...
Of the four classical elements, it is hard to say which is most important because they are so deeply interconnected. Bu...
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PLU Codes Are More Than Just Numbers
Have you ever wondered what all those numbers on the produce stickers actually mean? I had always thought they were jus...
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