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Is Sustainable-Labeled Seafood Really Sustainable?
By: DANIEL ZWERDLING and MARGOT WILLIAMS / NPR Capt. Art Gaeten holds a blue shark that was caught during a research trip in Nova Scotia. Scientists are studying the impact of swordfish fishing methods on the shark population.
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Guerrilla Cartographers Put Global Food Stats On The Map
By ADAM COLE | NPR’s The Salt For the past five months, University of California, Berkeley cartography professor Darin Jensen has been collecting maps about food. They fill the walls of his office, each one telling
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NPR Report of Stanford Study Sparks Wave of Criticism from Organics Fans
On Tuesday September 4, NPR ran a story entitled “Why Organic Food May Not Be Healthier For You“. It was based on a Stanford report recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The story
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Michael Pollan Responds to Study Finding ‘No Significant Health Benefit’ to Organic Food
Posted by Jon Brooks | KQED (read full transcript) You may have heard the NPR story this morning about the meta-study from Stanford University, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, which found “no significant
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Two Sides Prepare For Vote On Genetically Modified Labeling In Calif.
By KATHLEEN MASTERSON | NPR’s The Salt - This November, voters in California will decide whether the state should require labels on foods with genetically engineered ingredients. If the initiative, known as Proposition 37,
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Rwandan Coffee Farmers Turn Premium Beans Into Harvest Gold
by MICHAELEEN DOUCLEFF | NPR’s The Salt - Yesterday on All Things Considered, Allison Aubrey explained how coffee is the new wine — or, at least, how our morning brew is catching up with
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Boom-and-Bust Salmon Catch is Booming Again
By Maria Finn | Food & Environment Reporting Network - After years of going begging, Northern California is awash in salmon. Charter boats are booked up to two weeks in advance, and anglers claim
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Bhutan Bets Organic Agriculture Is The Road To Happiness
By ELIZA BARCLAY | NPR’s The Salt - The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan drew international attention a few years back for saying gross national happiness should trump gross domestic product when measuring a
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Discarded Food Cans Turn Into Canvas For British Street Artist
By APRIL FULTON | NPR - Those eyes grab you first. Only after a couple of beats do you realize you’re looking at the painted bottom of a flattened metal can left on the street,
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Struggling Dairy Farmers Find A ‘Moo’ Business Model, With Organics
From NPR | by Jessica Camille Aguirre |- A year and a half after Aaron Bell lost his contract to sell milk to H.P. Hood LLC from his 45 cow dairy operation in Edmunds, Maine,
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