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  GM Alfalfa Deregulated: Our Responsibility

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  Sustainable Food: Continued from Part One: GM Alfalfa Deregulated: An Organic Farm Responds /> It is possible, then, to consider using alfalfa that is not held to seed

  

  Keri Marion • January 28 • 1

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  GM Alfalfa Deregulted: An Organic Farm Responds

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  Sustainable Food: "After conducting a thorough and transparent examination of alfalfa through a multi-alternative environmental impact statement (EIS) and several publ

  

  Keri Marion • January 28 • 0

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  GMO Alfalfa: Vote for Diversity

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  Sustainable Food: Continued from Part Two But genetically Modified seeds are patented seeds. They are owned by companies. They are the property of other people. Open-

  

  Keri Marion • January 23 • 5

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  GMO Alfalfa: Issues of Cross-Contamination and Biodiversity

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  Sustainable Food: Continued from Part One In the case of alfalfa, it is a wind-pollinated crop. That means rather than primarily by birds or insects, pollen is simply

  

  Keri Marion • January 23 • 2

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  GMO Alfalfa: Republicans Want Deregulation Now

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  Sustainable Food: U.S. Representative Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) and U.S. Senators Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) and Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) penned a letter to Secretary of Agricu

  

  Keri Marion • January 23 • 3

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  GM Sugar Beets & Rising Concern For Food Security

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  Sustainable Food: Genetically modified sugar beets make up almost the entire crop for commercial sugar production in the United States, banking 95% of the market. As g

  

  Keri Marion • January 17 • 6

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  Australian Organic Farm Cross Contaminated With GM Crop

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  Sustainable Food: A certified organic grain farmer in Australia, Mr. Stephen Marsh, has recently discovered that nearly 70% of his organic farm has been infected by cr

  

  Keri Marion • January 16 • 0

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  Genetically Modified Crops & You

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  Sustainable Food: Genetically modified organisms (also sometimes called "genetically engineered organisms, or simply genetically engineered / GE), specifically food cr

  

  Keri Marion • January 16 • 0

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  Environmental Sustainability: Real Numbers of the BP Oil Spill

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  Sustainable Food: Environmental sustainability in the Gulf of Mexico has never been more important than now, when nobody is really talking much about the BP "Oil Spill

  

  Keri Marion • January 05 • 0

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  Sustainable Food: Rhode Island Rye

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  Sustainable Food: Rhode Island, the littlest state with a highly agrarian populace, is making a new case for sustainable food: Rye flour. Rye is a typical cover crop f

  

  Keri Marion • January 04 • 0

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  The Perennial Plate: An Exercise in Sustainable Food

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  Sustainable Food: Sustainable food is super trendy these days, and we're all the better for it. Forerunners like Michael Pollan or Eric Schlosser have helped create a

  

  Keri Marion • January 02 • 1

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  Sustainable Agriculture Introduces The Pecanigator

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  Sustainable Food: Part of making agriculture a more sustainable practice is reconsidering conventional methodologies and reinvesting in them to make them function bett

  

  Keri Marion • December 31 • 0

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  GMOs: What Are They?

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  Sustainable Food: For many people the definition of a Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) is veiled at best. The terms GMO and Genetically Engineered (GE) in regards t

  

  Keri Marion • December 29 • 0

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  Organic Food: GMO Alfalfa is Still on the Menu

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  Sustainable Food: Organic Food Today put out a press release that talks about the court's decision to deregulate Genetically Modified (GM) / Genetically Engineered (GE

  

  Keri Marion • December 28 • 0

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  Local Food Grocery Looks to CSA Model

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  Sustainable Food: In Toronto, Canada, a small local food grocer is struggling to make ends meet. Culinarium is local foods grocery that is now looking to sell shares o

  

  Keri Marion • December 27 • 0

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  Permaculture: Maggots for Chickens

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  Sustainable Food: Here's an interesting idea in permaculture: What to do with leftover meat, offal or carrion that exists in every kind of farm establishment? Some per

  

  Keri Marion • December 26 • 2

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  Vilsack Statement about S510 / HR2751

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  Sustainable Food: Tom Vilsack, United States Agricultural Secretary, made a statement on the passing of Senate Bill S510/ HR2751 (which is now all amassed in the HR275

  

  Keri Marion • December 25 • 0

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  Wanted: Legal Support for Sustainable Agriculture

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  Sustainable Food: A growing number of concerned Americans are becoming more aware of the need to radically change the way our food system operates, and make the shift

  

  Ellen Sabina • December 22 • 0

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  Obama Due To Sign S510 Into Law

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  Sustainable Food: Senate bill S510 has had a rocky past six months, but that's nothing compared to the two years it's been in and out of discussion. The last update wa

  

  Keri Marion • December 22 • 0

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  Organic Food Labeling, a Video Explanation

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  Sustainable Food: A topic often covered in Justmeans editorial is that of organic food labeling. For the average consumer, it can be rather difficult to navigate the s

  

  Keri Marion • December 20 • 0

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