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  Industrial Organic Pressed For Transparency

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  Sustainable Food: The question about organic growing practices in industrial agriculture seems almost like an oxymoron: How can the industrial complex promote healthy

  

  Keri Marion • April 25 • 0

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  Urban Gardening Movement Grows Strong Communities

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  Sustainable Food: If there's one thing we can say we've been lacking in industrial American society, it certainly is the structure of a functioning community. But all

  

  Keri Marion • April 11 • 0

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  Market Trends: Greenwashing

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  Sustainable Food: Walmart sells organics; sets up a fruit stand in front of their automated doors. Hundreds of thousands of re-useable bags decorated with pre-war ico

  

  Keri Marion • April 05 • 1

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  Bt Corn: Fail.

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  Sustainable Food: The International Journal of Biological Sciences claims that three varieties of GMO corn have now been linked with organ failure in a study performed

  

  Keri Marion • April 04 • 2

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  The Nuclear Forest Recovery Zone

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  Sustainable Food: "The enormity and unprecedented nature of this combined natural and human-made disaster will require a massive and completely novel approach to manag

  

  Keri Marion • March 24 • 4

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  Ownership of Product vs. Food

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  Sustainable Food: Those that own the food, own the people. Most of us understand the dangers in patenting staple seed crops like corn, wheat, soy, alfalfa however, I s

  

  Keri Marion • March 16 • 0

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  Organic Seed And Development

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  Sustainable Food: Over the course of a conversation with a reader, there was some discussion about seed patents, development and organics. The reader said that organic

  

  Keri Marion • March 15 • 0

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  Effects Of Glyphosate

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  Sustainable Food: Glyphosate is the primary ingredient to Monsanto's best selling herbicide, RoundUp. Conveniently and somehow without status of a monopoly, Monsanto a

  

  Keri Marion • February 22 • 0

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  The Ripple Effect Of Consumerism

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  Sustainable Food: In our economy, every single action we put forth reverberates globally. We all live in an enclosed system of atmosphere, soil and water. There is no

  

  Keri Marion • February 14 • 0

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  Baby Steps To Sustainability

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  Sustainable Food: Since the mid eighteenth- century, many countries have sought to streamline daily routines into marketable little packages, to "save us time" that we

  

  Keri Marion • February 14 • 1

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  Can Biotech Companies Provide Sustainable Food Options?

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  Sustainable Food: Pesticides and herbicides are poisons, no matter how a person wants to slice it. So far, biotech companies have instituted two major forms of genetic

  

  Keri Marion • February 05 • 4

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  Considering Past Pesticide Use for a Sustainable Future

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  Sustainable Food: The biotech industry wants us to believe that their products maintain "sustainable and environmentally-conscious agricultural practices." They claim

  

  Keri Marion • February 05 • 0

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  Organic Food: Integrative Pest Management

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  Sustainable Food: Organic food is food grown within a certain set of conditions, most notably without genetically modified seed and without synthetic herbicides or pes

  

  Keri Marion • January 07 • 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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  USDA Starts Carcass Composing Program

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  Sustainable Food: The USDA has put together a program helping to dispose of large animal roadkill in rural areas, with its pilot program sponsored by the Natural Resou

  

  Keri Marion • December 30 • 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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  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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  Officials Comment on Food Safety

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  Sustainable Food: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack answered questions delivered via Facebook and the White H

  

  Keri Marion • December 18 • 3

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  GMO Alfalfa - Vilsack Revisits Court Decision

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  Sustainable Food: Early last summer (2010), Monsanto had won a court case to lift the ban on Genetically Modified Alfalfa, or RoundUp Ready Alfalfa, through the United

  

  Keri Marion • December 17 • 0

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