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Today’s Healthy Monday tip: Eat Less Meat!
It’s up to you whether you you want to give the stuff up completely, but it’s good food for thought (ha ha) to know that reducing your personal consumption of meat is better for the environment and for your body.
You can reduce your carbon footprint significantly by eating less [...]

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(image courtesy of R. Stevens of Diesel Sweeties, via lolpresident)
But what’s his food policy? Congrats to Democratic Presidential Nominee Barack Obama. A few weeks ago, an interview regarding his agriculture policies was posted to the Tufts Comfood listserv. Jill Richardson, aka orangeclouds115 of Daily Kos, dissects his answers over at Golden Apple Press.
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This is the first entry in a series of blog posts by Gwen Schantz, a former employee of (and eternal devotee to) the Eat Well Guide. Lately Gwen’s been traveling throughout the US and Canada, seeking out good food and collecting stories along the way. Gwen’s been making use of the Guide from the road, [...]

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Take Out, the new film by Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou about an illegal Chinese immigrant scrambling to pay off his debt to the people who helped smuggle him into the US with tips from his delivery job, has extended its stay at Quad Cinemas after selling out last weekend.
The film opened to rave reviews [...]

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Green Fork devotees may recall that the day this blog launched, I was in New Orleans for the Jazz & Heritage Festival. It was my first time in the city and as I mentioned in posts about the New Orleans Food and Farming Network and the Crescent City Farmers Market, I was really inspired [...]

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What are you doing on Labor Day? We’ll be in San Francisco, at this summer’s must-attend foodie event, Slow Food Nation. Tickets went on sale last week, so grab ‘em while they’re hot. Speaking of hot, this East Coast heatwave is already inspiring West Coast daydreams, but just imagine the Bay Area [...]

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Today’s Healthy Monday Tip: Take a hike! Hiking is one of the most enjoyable forms of exercise, and unless you are flying or driving long distances to get to the trailhead, it’s one of the greenest, too. If you live in an urban area with a lot of smog, it’s also a [...]

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For some, food shortage a political opportunity Zimbabwe’s President Mugabe, up for re-election later this month, is leveraging the hunger of the country’s citizens in an outrageous scheme where only those who can produce party registration cards get food aid. (ABC News)
For others, local food is worth a gamble California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and [...]

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Once upon a time, gardens were considered high art, and gardeners were commissioned to landscape beautiful gardens for the rich. Ok, so lots of rich folks probably still have fancy gardens, but when was the last time you heard anyone refer to a person who tends to the growing of plants as an artist? [...]

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Today’s Healthy Monday Tip:
Get good eggs. New York Magazine just put out this great article on how not all eggs are created equal. Pasture-raised eggs are much, much higher in Omega-3 fatty acids, and therefore, much, much better for you.
Those less nutritious industrially-produced eggs come at a greater cost to society and the [...]

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