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We’ll be running our usual News Feed tomorrow but couldn’t resist posting a little roundup for those of you who are following the likely connection between CAFOs and “swine flu” (now dubbed H1N1).
A US export? The Humane Society points to CDC documentation of similar flu bugs first identified over 10 years ago in North Carolina.
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Hope to see those of you in the NYC area at Saturday’s Brooklyn Food Conference!

The conference aims to create a solid foundation for the food movement in Brooklyn in order to advocate for Food Democracy locally and globally. In the words of its mission statement, the conference “will bring together a uniquely broad and diverse [...]

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Last Monday, as I boarded a commercial flight, I sneezed. I had sneezed in the car on the way to the airport, and I would sneeze more throughout the day. On my way to the W.K Kellogg Foundation’s Food & Society conference, a gathering of nearly 600 “good food” advocates, and excited about the trip, [...]

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Today’s Healthy Monday tip: What you need to know about Swine Flu.
With forty cases of Swine Flu infection identified to date in the United States it is important to be aware and informed in order to protect yourself and your family. Swine Flu is spread from person to person through coughing [...]

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Want to mitigate climate change, reduce green house gasses and protect endangered song birds, pollinators and the native grasslands they inhabit? Support local grass-fed beef!
Okay, so the logic behind raising or eating beef as a means to reduce greenhouse gasses sounds flawed. Meat-eaters can get a lot of flack and finger-wagging for contributing to [...]

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Aside from Earth Day, today marks the Green Fork’s one-year anniversary. That we launched this blog one year ago today (with 20 Ways to Green Your Fork) is no coincidence — the team at Eat Well, along with a growing number of consumers, are  concerned about how our food choices impact the environment.  Social justice [...]

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Enough with the Earth Day blah-blah-blah–until we start celebrating earth with a small “e” everyday, all the compact fluorescent light bulbs and reusable shopping bags and hybrid cars and stainless steel water bottles in the world won’t cut it. We need to learn to love and cherish our dirt, because without healthy soil, we’re toast. [...]

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Originally posted on Sustainable Table’s Daily Table blog.

Today’s Healthy Monday Tip: Make an Earth Day commitment to skip meat on Mondays!
Give it a try. Make the plan today. Next Monday can be your first Meatless Monday. Try it for a week. A month. A year.
With World Health Day and Earth Day both in April, health [...]

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It’s been sitting quietly in the left hand sidebar for a couple of weeks, but we have yet to give this gorgeous video its due. Because it’s spring and in honor of Earth Day (we’ll be running Earth-friendly stories all this week to celebrate), please enjoy this short video of farmers and shoppers at [...]

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Yes! The Spring issue of Yes! magazine is entirely devoted to food and mentions the Eat Well Guide. Thank you, Yes!
Failure to yield That’s the name of a new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists on yield increases in Bt cotton and corn, which Elanor at The Ethicurean calls “stunningly lame.” [...]

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