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Giving all geeks the opportunity to amend for spawning a generation of sedentary screen-junkies, First Lady Michelle Obama is offering a chance at both money and fame to software developers and game designers who create tools and games that get kids moving. The Apps for Healthy Kids Challenge opened this week and will accept submissions through June 30, with a first prize of $40,000.

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USDA is Loco for Local: Everyone’s excited about the new Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food initiative (henceforth to be known as KYFx2) the USDA rolled out this week, which includes a focus on rural development and direct marketing, the opening of the new farmers’ market near the White House and funds for farm-to-school programs and community food projects. Tom Philpott brings us back down to earth.

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Because I didn’t manage to post the News Feed last week, enjoy an extra dose of food news this weekend, some of it a bit fresher than others.
$20 billion food security initiative announced at G8 World leaders dug a little deeper than expected today, pledging an extra $5 billion in food aid to poor countries.  [...]

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Monsanto according to Change.org Hot on the heels of Secretary of State Clinton’s love letter to genetically modified food technology as a solution to global hunger, Natasha Chart has a 4-part series on the subject. (1 2 3 4) Tom Philpott also takes Clinton’s science czar to task on Seed Magazine Forum and gives [...]

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Have a great Memorial Day! We’ll be back on Tuesday.
Vilsack on CAFOs, swine flu H1N1 Last week, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack stood up for industrial livestock operations, saying that the “‘vast, vast, vast majority of farmers who are raising livestock are very sensitive’ to the need to be careful about the management of [...]

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