Food System

Jamie Oliver Speaks With People Around the Globe on Food Revolution Day (VIDEO)

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 05.22.2012

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Obesity is a leading preventable cause of death worldwide. To address it, Jamie Oliver launched the first-ever, global Food Revolution Day which took place in 620 cities around the globe.

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Can Food Studies Make Us Better Shoppers?

Fabio Parasecoli | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Food System, Food Studies, Public Engagement, Sustainable Food Systems, Farmers Markets, College News

Why does Food Studies attract students? Does it actually contribute to their education as individuals and as citizens? I do think that Food Studies can help us become better shoppers, and hopefully achieve much more than that.

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Grossed Out by Pink Slime? Well, Don't Just Sit There

Michael F. Jacobson | Posted 04.13.2012

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Signs that our food system is broken are all around us. So are the signs that Americans are craving change and want to do something about it.

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The Power of Sustainable Protein in the 21st Century

Johann Tergesen | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Food, Food System, Overfishing, Green News

How can we revolutionize the food system to ensure that healthy proteins, an essential nutrient for human health, are available to a global population estimated to reach from 7.5 to 10.5 billion people by 2050?

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Farm Bill 2012 Eyed For Enhancing Conservation -- Of Soil And Farmers' Livelihood

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 02.28.2012

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American farmers suffered more crop losses in 2011 than in any other year in recorded history. Total insurance payouts have surpassed $9 billion, and ...

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Towards a More Energy Efficient Food System

Kyle Rabin | Posted 04.03.2012

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It's important to understand the many interconnections between the food and energy sectors in order to make good consumer choices and develop prudent public policy.

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44 Square Miles of Forgotten Men

Linda Novick O'Keefe | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Healthy Eating, Food System, Food Justice, Rahm Emmanuel, Growing Power, Cooking, Mayor Daley, Chicago, The Plant, Illinois, Urban Agriculture, Growing Home, Aquaponics, Chicago News

The word "Food Desert" was coined to describe Chicago. Can the Emanuel administration truly make Chicago the city in a garden? Can they make the city that works, work for everyone?

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Organic or Local? I Say Transparent

Maria Rodale | Posted 03.06.2012

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by guest blogger Alberto Gonzalez, founder and CEO of GustOrganics. For most people who think about what goes into the foods they buy, there is a qu...

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David Korten: Capitalism, Democracy, and Food (Video)

Rebecca Gerendasy | Posted 01.02.2012

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David Korten argues that both "peak oil" and climate change makes it imperative that we transition to a more localized food economy to insure continued access to adequate food supplies.

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Honoring the Hands That Prepare Our Food

Mark Muller | Posted 11.04.2011

Read More: Food System, Food Chain, Labor Day, Health Care, Food News

Eat well this Labor Day. Thank our food chain colleagues for their sacrifices. But with that thanks, also make a shared commitment for a food system based on justice and health and not one that can verge on exploitation.

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The Midas Touch: Stomachs Too Big to Fail?

Lewis Lapham | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Food System, Cost of Food, Packaged Food, Cooking, Food Reform, Food, Food Suppy and Demand, Food Organization, Fine Dining, Global Food System, Food News

What is profitable is not necessarily edible; food doesn't get along well with assembly lines, farm-chemical runoff and antibiotics. Its quality deteriorates, as do the soils from which it springs and the health of those to whom it is dished out.

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The Future Of Food Guides?

Chris Elam | Posted 08.13.2011

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What if there was a place where you could learn about the exact foods you were eating -- in real time -- whether you were at your family dinner table, in a favorite restaurant, or even alongside a food truck?

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The Food Debate and Rio+20: Both Sides Now

Sara Franklin | Posted 07.27.2011

More than empty rhetoric and business as usual, Via Campesina plans to arrive at Rio+20 armed with their grievances as well as solutions.

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Spiritual Solutions #7: True Self, True Food

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011

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By Deepak Chopra and Annie B. Bond True Self Light has the power to fill the void afflicted by darkness. Healing yourself comes in two stages-...

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How to Help our Food System? Try the L3C or the B-Corp

Katherine Gustafson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stakeholders, Investing, l3c, Aneel Karnani, Corporate Social Responsibility, Low-Profit-Limited-Liability-Corporation, Business Practice, Food System, Csr, B-Corp, Food News

One way of improving the United States food system has more to do with business practices than it has to do with food.

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All Cows Don't Eat Grass, and Other Ways the Food System Has Changed Our Vernacular

Cathy Erway | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food System, Grass-Fed, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil, Brunch, Peanuts, George Washington Carver, Food News

Cows have not been evolved to digest corn, but it's become the basic feed of industrial agriculture livestock. And, most of that corn has been genetically modified. What else is new?

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