Tag: food
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Guess How One Nation’s Army is Fighting Climate Change
By Kristina Chew Here’s the Norwegian army’s plan to fight climate change: have everybody go meatless once a week. Norwegian troops will be eating vegetarian meals on Mondays to cut their consumption of ecologically unfriendly foods whose production contributes heavily to global warming. Spokesman Eystein Kvarving says the plan is meant to be “a step to protect our climate” by serving food…
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7 Traditional Thanksgiving Foods Brought to You By Bees
It’s easy to take the food that appears before us for granted particularly during the holidays. However, there is one really important creature responsible for much of our favorite Thanksgiving fare: bees. Bee pollination is a $20 billion to $30 billion per year contributor to U.S. agriculture and vital to the majority of fruit and…
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Canada Approves Genetically Modified Fish Eggs
The Canadian government has approved commercial production of genetically modified Atlantic salmon eggs, which environment watchers are calling an alarming decision that positions Canada as the source of global environmental risk. The Environment Canada approval, published Nov. 23 in the Canada Gazette, is the first government approval for the company, AquaBounty. The company has asked…
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U.S. Banks Financing Rainforest Destruction for Palm Oil Plantations
A new report names major U.S. and European banks that are financing land grabs in Indonesia for palm oil production—which is harming the rainforest and the lives of the people who live there—and the investors who are profiting from the business. Palm oil producers in Indonesia are clearing tropical rainforests to plant their oil palm trees, obliterating the…
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100,000 Americans Tell McDonald’s to Pass on Biotech Fries
Food & Water Watch (FWW) delivered a letter signed by more than 100,000 Americans telling fast-food giant McDonald’s not to buy a new genetically engineered organism (GMO)—a potato from one of its main suppliers that is up for approval by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The Innate brand GMO potato that awaits regulatory approval was…