Tag: food
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10 Best Sustainable Food and Farming Documentaries: Vote for Your Favorite
The nation’s newest, most vibrant competition for short films about sustainable food and farming—the first annual Real Food Media Contest—recently announced it had chosen the top 10 films from among 150 entries. A panel of judges will select the first, second and third place winners, but it’s up to the public to name the “People’s…
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Can the World Feed China?
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Petition Launched to Halt GMO Production, Pesticide Use in Hawaii
A Maui Citizens Group is asking Hawaiians to sign a petition released on Monday that would give voters the choice of whether or not to temporarily suspend the production of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on Hawaii’s second-largest island, reports Reuters. [caption id="attachment_323307" align="alignnone" width="500"] In a recent poll, 54 percent of Maui County citizens said…
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America’s Favorite Meat Is Also One of Its Most Lethal Commodities
Grocery shoppers probably assume the food on display is safe to take home, but in the poultry aisle, that simple assumption could lead people directly into the emergency room. [caption id="attachment_323254" align="alignnone" width="500"] “More deaths were attributed to poultry than to any other commodity,” according to an analysis of outbreaks from 1998 through 2008 by…
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California Senator Introduces GMO Food Labeling Bill
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Remember California’s Proposition 37, the defunct 2012 ballot initiative that would have required genetically engineered (GE) food sold in the West Coast state to be labeled as such? [caption id="attachment_323182" align="alignnone" width="500"] California Sen. Noreen Evans (D-Santa Rosa) has introduced Senate Bill 1381, which would require GE food…