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Having spent the last several years following the issues outlined in the film, I did not expect to be surprised by much that it covered and I wasn’t, but as I was caught off guard by my emotional response to it. Food, Inc. basically left me crying like a baby for the people — farmers and consumers alike — who’ve been hurt by our food system.

That said, if you eat food and haven’t seen this film yet, you should.

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An Unappealing Appeal In a ruling certain to discourage communities that don’t want a factory farm as a neighbor,  the Illinois Supreme Court denied an appeal filed by residents who are being sued for $300,000 in damages after their unsuccessful attempts to have environmental issues addressed before construction of a Cargill affiliated pork CAFO.
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Meet FLUPSY (Floating Upweller System), the solar and wind powered clam nursery.  This brilliant boat is good for the economy (because it’s increasing the number of clams in Hempstead Bay) and good for the bay (because the clams they’re growing are bivalves and help filter it) and it utilizes only renewable energy.  Love it.  From [...]

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3.56 million Quarter Pounders According to Grist’s Tom Philpott, the go-to guy on the mystery meat front, that’s what the 864,000 lb. ground beef recall, the first of 2010, adds up to.  Philpott also wonders whether industry will “grope for techno fixes,” presumably not of the “pink slime” variety.  Never one to miss an opportunity [...]

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Cultivating Contrariness This week, The Atlantic published a hit piece by Caitlin Flanagan on school gardens, which elicited near-immediate responses from Grist’s Tom Philpott, Serious Eats’ Ed Levine and The Atlantic’s own Corby Krummer.
Leasing Land In a questionable scheme to localize food production, land-rich, capital-poor Ethiopia, a major food importer, is leasing large tracts [...]

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Myriad stumbling blocks, good (holidays) and bad (illness) have made for nearly a month without News Feeds!  We’re back on track, though, and while a few of these nuggets may be past their expiration date, we’re throwing them in anyway, assuming that a few of you are catching up on your food news, too.  Enjoy.
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Last week, when a few news organizations ran away with the (non)-story of a “Danish text” supposedly leaked last week in Copenhagen that gave excess leniency to rich nations and too little support to poor ones, it was met with anguish by many, but not so much with surprise.
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Fix-ated on the Wrong Solutions? This week, the Union of Concerned Scientists released a new report called No Sure Fix on the ability (or lack thereof) of biotechnology to decrease the abuse of nitrogen fertilizers.
Local Going Global Check out this cool new collection of local business case studies from BALLE and the Wallace Center, which [...]

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The economic burden of antibiotic resistance on the American healthcare system is measurable and staggering. In 2008, the Institute of Medicine reported that antibiotic-resistant bacteria, including MRSA, cost the U.S. $4-5 billion a year. Accordingly, the CDC estimates that 2 million Americans contract resistant infections and out of those, 90,000 die.

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Today’s post comes from our friends at Meatless Monday…
Sir Paul McCartney has teamed up with climate change expert Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri to encourage cities worldwide to go meatless on Monday! The duo urged legislators to adopt the program during the “Less Meat = Less Heat” hearing at the European Parliament on December 3rd. McCartney [...]

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