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Brooklyn Grange Roots Down — in Queens An ambitious group of hipsters agrarians from Brooklyn, including ex-Gracer Gwen Schantz, have found a home for their farm in a one-acre rooftop in Long Island City.  You can donate to the project at Kickstarter.
Highway to the Safety Zone Yesterday, the USDA’s new rolling food safety project, the [...]

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Lettuce Beware The FDA is investigating a farm in Arizona as the likely source of the latest E. coli outbreak and subsequent recall, which has sickened at least 19 people around the country.
A Roundup Roundup The herbicide glysophate, known commercially as Roundup, is losing ground to superweeds on farms around the country.  The New York [...]

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I didn’t manage to get up a Feed last week, but  I did hang on to the links I’d been gathering.  So, open wide and be sure to click through at the jump, here’s two weeks worth of links for you.
Roundup Ready Alfalfa Hits the Supreme Court Monsanto has taken a ruling against the deregulation [...]

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It’s easy for people under 50 to imagine that first Earth Day, 40 years ago today, as a gathering of a bunch of idealistic hippies, but in many ways, things were just as serious then as they are today. Sure, most people didn’t know how rapidly we were approaching peak oil or the climate tipping point, but they were living under the threat of nuclear war. There were virtually no environmental regulations, so factories were spewing pollutants willy-nilly into the air and water ways. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring had raised major eyebrows over rampant pesticide use with its release in 1962, but the US wouldn’t ban DDT until 1972. Rivers caught fire. Forget the fact that everyone was still driving gas-guzzling V-8s, there was still lead in gasoline.

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Kathleen Merrigan — Just in Time! Our esteemed Deputy Secretary has earned a spot in the 2010 Time 100.  Stop by and vote her up!
On the Move Deb Eschmeyer reports back from the White House Childhood Obesity Summit.  In other Let’s Move news, our food-savvy First Lady toured a community garden run by international refugees [...]

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