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Happy Halloween!
Spooky! The Chinese melamine scandal has expanded to include eggs and has prompted a massive chicken cull.
Fishy! Friends at the Consumers’ Union tell us that organic standards are at risk in the seafood department. Basically, farmed fish that are fed wild fish (which sounds good, but many of these fish are from [...]

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This post was written by Luba Guzei.
There’s no way around candy on Halloween, but for those of us concerned about our health and the health of the environment, the thought of all that individually-wrapped commercially produced candy can be a little spooky! But so is being “that house” that gives out healthy snacks.
Your challenge this [...]

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This post is by Luba Guzei, an Eat Well Guide intern, who studies and eats in the belly of New York City (also known as lower Manhattan/Brooklyn). As a student at New York University, her academics include contemplating the importance of food on an international scale. However, Luba is also interested in the very food [...]

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This post was written by Pooja Mottl.
Today’s Healthy Monday tip: Watch your bread (labels).
We’ve talked about reading between the lines of the label-crazed food industry before. Earlier this month, our government’s watchdog agency, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), released a report giving the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency responsible for oversight of [...]

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Our new friend Ari LaVeux, whose Flash in the Pan column is a favorite new read (check out his interview with Obama and this deliciously clever Food Club) is in Turin for Terra Madre. I’m guessing he’s found his way into the Salone by now — he missed it the other night but it [...]

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