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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
As the highly regarded new movie Food, Inc. makes clear, Meatless Monday is not only good for your health – it’s one of the top ten actions every one of us can take to help create a better, more sustainable food system.
Food, Inc., which opens nationwide this week, aims to [...]

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The good (food) doctor A Mighty Appetite’s Kim O’Donnel serves up a heartwarming story about Dr. Preston Maring, an ob-gyn from Oakland who has helped install numerous farmers’ markets outside Kaiser Permanente hospitals, set up CSA memberships for medical offices, and gotten fresh local produce onto hospital trays.
Foie gras and farmworkers NY Times op-ed [...]

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All of this adds up to a decidedly unlevel playing field for small-scale producers, one that wouldn’t necessarily be addressed, should Vilsack install a higher price. If we want to continue to have clean, safe, dairies in this country, rather than filthy, polluting factory farms, and if we want to have farmers who aren’t merely reduced to the status of serfs, something must be done to account for the difference in operating costs based on scale, but asking for a price increase based on production costs across the board is probably a good first start in a time of emergency.

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Food, Inc. exposes the dark side of the American diet in a compelling–and surprisingly entertaining–way. Will you lose your appetite for factory farmed foods after you’ve seen it? I hope so. But its stated goal is to leave you “hungry for change,” the kind of change that’s transforming the way we think about how–and where–our food is grown.

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
It’s Monday – time to kick off a week of healthy eating. If you shop today for fresh produce, you can easilyns plan a week’s worth of delicious, nutritious menus, and what better place to begin than at your local farmers’ market? Eating locally makes sense, and farmers’ markets are [...]

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Think global hunger, grow local food A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says that aid models that employ local agriculture are faster and more cost-effective than the current US system of food aid, which the Center for Global Development calls “particularly costly and inefficient.”
Winning in the fields Two Florida farms (Lady [...]

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But bearing in mind that we are talking about our ecology, our health and our global food supply — not really the kind of stuff we want to leave to chance — we would likely do well to follow the example of our European counterparts, who, as Powell points out, have “tended to operate according to the precautionary principle essentially expressed as ‘better safe than sorry.’”

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Formerly squeamish suburbanites are learning what every little kid knows instinctively–dirt and worms are cool. If you’re on the cutting edge, you’ve already stopped trimming your lawn and started clipping your nails, ’cause the era of manicured hands and manicured lawns is officially over. It’s time to tear up your turf, grow ‘clean’ food, and [...]

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Shot in reality-show style, “Pressure Cooker” trails Gaither and her classmates Tyree (a football star) and Fatoumata (an immigrant from Mali), who have put their trust in the hands of their culinary arts teacher, Mrs. Stephenson. Dispensing plenty of tough love, Stephenson prepares the students for a city-wide culinary competition organized by Careers through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP), a New York nonprofit that provides culinary training and scholarships for students at more than 200 public high schools in six cities across the country, plus throughout Arizona.

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
With all the diet and fitness crazes, the infomercials and public service campaigns, launched over the last two decades, you’d suspect that Americans had increasingly embraced healthy habits. But an important new study in the American Journal of Medicine reveals just the opposite. Between 1988 and 2006, adults adopted consistently [...]

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