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5 Food Labels That Mean Nothing

Organic Authority.com | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Food Tips, Local, Natural Food, Food, Consumers, Usda, Free Range, Grocery Shopping, Whole Grains, Organic, Food Labels, Lightly Sweetened, Food News
Organic Authority.com

While certain words and phrases such as "Low Sodium" or "Certified USDA Organic" are regulated and certified by government agencies, most are not -- and it's up to the consumer to read between the lines in order to find something healthy to eat.

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Eco Etiquette: What's The Greenest Thanksgiving Turkey?

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Heritage Turkeys, Sustainable Turkey, Green Turkey, Factory Farming, Green Living, Free Range, Gmos, Organic Turkeys, Green Tips, Pasture Raised, Green Thanksgiving, Eco-Friendly Turkey, Green News
Jennifer Grayson

Send all your eco-inquiries to Jennifer Grayson at eco.etiquette@gmail.com. Questions may be edited for length and clarity. I'm about to order my Tha...

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Humane Meat Is the Solution to What, Again?

Nil Zacharias | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Animal Agriculture, Factory Farming, Humane, Vegan Diet, Vegan, Factory Farms, Plant-Based Diet, Humane Myth, Cage Free Eggs, Conscious Consumerism, Humane Slaughter, Cruelty Free, Free-Range, Organic Dairy, Sustainable Meat, Free-Range Myth, Food News
Nil Zacharias

No one can deny that it's better to be less cruel in the ways we confine and kill animals (if we are going to kill and eat them anyway), but if we're interested in long-term change, we can't look at killing with kindness or gratitude as a solution in itself.

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Raise Your Own BBQ Wings: A Workshop in Backyard Chicken Harvesting

Jenna Woginrich | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Farming, Chickens, Backyard Chickens, Organic Food, Free-Range, Green Living, Eating Meat, Meat, Green News
Jenna Woginrich

I have now been eating my own meat birds for two seasons, and I was excited to do the slow-motion magic trick of turning a live chicken into a perfect roasting bird just like you'd see at the grocery store.

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Meat, greet, eat

Ellen Snortland | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kosher, Farmer's Markets, Michael Pollan, Organic Food, Certified Humane, Sustainable Food, Free-Range, Cage Free Eggs, 4-H, Alice Waters, Jonathan Safran Foer, Costco, Food News
Ellen Snortland

It helps to have a personal relationship with your next meal Sitting down to supper as a 4-year-old, I recall my sisters' ardent concerns about who w...

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Organic Egg on Our Faces

Suzan Colón | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cornucopia Institute, Salmonella, Chickens, Organic Eggs, Egg Recall, Free-Range, Eggs, Cage Free Eggs, Food News
Suzan Colón

If you pay more for organic, cage-free eggs, guess what: The yolk's on you.

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Avoiding Factory Farm Foods: An Eater's Guide

Nicolette Hahn Niman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vegetarian, Eating Animals, Farmers Markets, Vegan, Factory Farms, Nicolette Hahn Niman, Food, Meat, Free Range, Jonathan Safran Foer, Food News
Nicolette Hahn Niman

Eventually, I mostly gave up on supermarkets and began exploring new ways to get at the good food I was seeking. My goal was simple: I wanted all my food to come from places I would enjoy visiting.

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Meat Labels: What Do They Really Mean?

The Stir | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hormone Free, Usda, Grill, Natural, Free Range, Meat, Organic, Labels, Grass Fed, Slidepollajax, Meat Labels, Food News
The Stir

You're strolling past the meat counter, wondering what to grill this weekend, and you see all of those labels: organic, free range, natural. Natural? ...

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Leave Your Children at the Park and Your Paranoia at Bay

Darell Hammond | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Playground, Parenting, Helicopter Parents, Children, State of Play, Free-Range, Park, Healthy Living News
Darell Hammond

The newly proclaimed "Take Your Children to the Park... and Leave Them There Day" (this Saturday, May 22) has a provocative name for a reason: to call...

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Eco-Food Buzz Words: What Do They Mean? (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Factory Farming, Cage Free, Sustainable Food, Slidepoll, Food Buzz Words, Hormones, Free Range, Grass Fed, Carbon Footprint, The Week of Eating In, Organic Food, Local Food, Eco Food Words, Food, Gmo, Green News

Local. Organic. Cage Free. Free Range. What does it all mean? It's easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer number of labels out there for your food, a...

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Your "All Natural, Organic, Free-Range Turkey" Never Ate Its Natural Food Or Stepped Outdoors

Steven R. Gundry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Organic Food, Thanksgiving Commentary, Free-Range, Thanksgiving, Free Range Turkey, Green News
Steven R. Gundry

A farmer can keep your turkey in a dark warehouse, open a door just once to a patch of grass and the "access to the outside" distinction for the USDA 'free-range' label has been met.

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What's Next For Jonathan Safran Foer And Eating Animals?

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Natalie Portman, Animal Cruelty, Everything Is Illuminated, Book Reviews, Natalie Portman Eating Animals, Eating Meat, Agriculture, New Books, Jonathan Safran Foer Eating Animals, Free Range, Jonathan Safran Foer, Vegetarian, Book Review, Vegetarianism, Eating Animals, Food Politics, Safran Foer Eating Animals, Books, Farming, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Factory Farms, Bestsellers, Books News

Beginning the week of October 26, 2009, we ran a series of reviews on HuffPost Books on Jonathan Safran Foer's new book, Eating Animals. It was a surp...

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Eating Animals: Why Eating Matters

Kathy Freston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farms, Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated, Eating Meat, Agriculture, New Books, Omnivore's Dilemma, Jonathan Safran Foer Eating Animals, Free Range, Jonathan Safran Foer, Michael Pollan, Farm Forward, Vegetarianism, Foer Eating Animals, Eating Animals, Books, Farming, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Factory Farms, Thanksgiving, Books News
Kathy Freston

If ever there was a book that could profoundly affect our lives at the most fundamental level, this one is it.

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What Men Want

Dr. Nicholas Perricone | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Brad Pitt, Matthew McConaughey, Men, David Beckham, Christian Bale, Usher, Mark Wahlberg, Taye Diggs, Antioxidant Foods, Grass-Fed, Health Food, Impact of Eating Meat, Dr. Perricone, Omega-3-Fatty-Acids, Free-Range, Free-Range-Chickens, Alzheimer's, Diabetes, Healthy Living News
Dr. Nicholas Perricone

Eating a lot of fish and fresh fruit and vegetables is ideal for creating beautiful skin and eliminating body fat, and is ideal for women andmen.

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Beyond Organic: Animals Raised Organic Can Be Mistreated and Caged, in the Guise of Good

Makenna Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hormone Free, Organic Farming, Chickens, Humane, Cruelty Free, Free-Range, Joel Salatin, All Natural, Organic, Food, Green News
Makenna Goodman

Organic may, in fact, be little more than a sweet notion and marketing campaign that rests easy the hearts of the eco-conscious consumer. Organic, in other words, is not always the right choice.

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Are Contrarians Helping or Hurting the Food Movement? Pork Op-Ed in NYT a Shill for Big Ag

Paula Crossfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pork, Shill, False Equivalence, Free-Range, New York Times, Big Ag, Media, Free-Range Pork, Food Policy, Factory Farms, Food Safety, Green News
Paula Crossfield

It seems that the New York Times, in its desperation to sell papers, fell into the trap of story building over truth-finding.

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Vegans And Meat-Eaters Unite To Support California's Proposition 2

The Huffington Post | Johanna Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Humane Society of the United States, Usda, Animal Rights, California Proposition 2, Wayne Pacelle, Humane Society, Eating Matters, Free-Range, Animal Welfare, Vegan, Proposition 2, California, Cage-Free Animals, Green News

Proposition 2, a sweeping California ballot initiative designed to improve the treatment that farm animals receive, will be decided by voters on Novem...

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