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High Food Prices

Food Fight; Falling Corn Prices Reveal Big Food's Lies

Dave Vander Griend | Posted 12.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Farming, U.S. Economy, High Food Prices, U.S. Farmers, Economy, Economic Crisis, Farmers, Food Prices, Green News
Dave Vander Griend

When it was convenient for them, critics of the biofuels industry were quick to place blame for rising food costs on ethanol, claiming that ethanol was increasing the price of corn.

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Half Of All Food And Water Produced Worldwide Goes To Waste

Huffington Post | Posted 09.26.2008 | Green

Read More: Food, Water, Politics of Food, Food Politics, Food Prices, High Food Prices, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Stockholm International Water Institute, Green News, Green, International Water Management Institute, Green News

A report authored by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the Stockholm International Water Institute, and the International Water Ma...

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Students Discover Through DNA Testing That New York Fish Is Often Mislabeled

NYT | John Schwartz | Posted 09.22.2008 | Home

Read More: Dna, Dna Testing, Trinity School, Mislabeled Fish, High Food Prices, Mislabel, Food Politics, Food, Mislabeled Food, Food Prices, Politics of Food, Home News

Many New York sushi restaurants and seafood markets are playing a game of bait and switch, say two high school students turned high-tech sleuths. In ...

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Save Money and the Environment: Cool Off Your Food this Summer

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 08.07.2008 | Green

Read More: High Food Prices, Local Food, Eating Locally, Food, Eating, Green Living, Local Farmers, Green Food, Carbon Footprint, Green News
Andrew Kimbrell

We can use summer to consider how much better locally grown foods are, not only in taste and price, but because they help to cool the planet. Change can taste delicious.

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Plant Your Own Insurance

Jenna Woginrich | Posted 08.02.2008 | Green

Read More: High Food Prices, Green Living, Food Prices, Gardening, Organic Food, Going Green, Happiness, Green News
Jenna Woginrich

Knowing how to produce, preserve and create your food feels good when the average barrel of petrol is going for $150 a pop. When your next salad costs $10 a pound you'll feel it there and at the pump.

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Food for Thought

Jessica Catto | Posted 07.29.2008 | Green

Read More: Healthy Eating, High Food Prices, Organic Food, Cooking, Food Crisis, Food, Eating, Food Prices, Green News
Jessica Catto

Meals should have some pleasant communal and familial function, and food production should support local commerce for its own sake, as well as reducing carbon emissions from long-range air travel.

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Food Fight - A "Vanguard" Special Report

Current TV’s “Vanguard” | Posted 07.23.2008 | Green

Read More: High Food Prices, Global Food Crisis, Global Economy, High Oil Prices, Food Crisis, Renewable Energy, Oil Prices, Food, Ethanol, Food Prices, Green News
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Hoarding Nations Driving Food Costs Even Higher

New York Times | KEITH BRADSHER and ANDREW MARTIN | Posted 07.07.2008 | Business

Read More: High Food Prices, World Hunger, Food Crisis, Food Prices, Business News

At least 29 countries have sharply curbed food exports in recent months, to ensure that their own people have enough to eat, at affordable prices. Wh...

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Honey Bee Crisis Could Push Food Prices Even Higher

AP | STEPHANIE S. GARLOW | Posted 07.04.2008 | Business

Read More: Honey Bees, Honey Bee Crisis, Food Prices, High Food Prices, Honey Bee Crisis Food Prices, Business News

WASHINGTON — Food prices could rise even more unless the mysterious decline in honey bees is solved, farmers and businessmen told lawmakers Thur...

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Our Love, Hate Relation to Inflation

Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 07.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil Prices, Energy, Gas Prices, Inflation Rate, High Food Prices, Inflation, Business News
Max Fraad Wolff

Housing prices went nuts from 1996-2007, and there virtually no complaints. So why is speculation influenced inflation in food and energy prices the work of Satan?

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Bush/McCain's Gas Price Scam is an Enron Re-Run

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Efficiency, Enron, Solartopia, Renewable Energy, Mccain, California Electric Rates, Offshore Drilling, Bush, High Gas Prices, Atomic Energy, High Food Prices, Solar Energy, Utility Deregulation, Harvey Wasserman, Global Warming, Nuclear Power, Green News
Harvey Wasserman

Today, despite years of grassroots advocacy, Bush has done everything in his power to squelch the conversion to a green-powered economy.

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Smaller Packaging Equals Hidden Eco-Costs

Treehugger.com | Christine Lepisto | Posted 06.25.2008 | Green

Read More: Economic Slowdown, Efficiency, High Food Prices, Activism, Packaging, Business, Recession, Green News

Are Producers Helping You to Stay on Budget? USA Today recently headlined a shocking review of the big name food companies that are trying to beat r...

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Inflation Eases Despite Huge Food Price Jump

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 05.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Inflation, High Food Prices, Food Prices, Business News

WASHINGTON — Consumer prices slowed in April despite the biggest jump in food costs in nearly two decades. But with oil near record levels, Amer...

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Is This The End Of Cheap Food?

Washington Independent | Mary Kane | Posted 05.01.2008 | Business

Read More: High Food Prices, World Food Prices, Commodity Prices, Food Crisis, Food Prices, Cheap Food, Food Shortage, Hunger, Business News

A sharp spike in prices for wheat, corn, rice and other staples has sparked riots in Mexico and Egypt, marches by hungry children in Yemen and the spe...

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Bay Area Shoppers Asked To Limit Rice Purchases

NBC 11 San Francisco | Posted 05.01.2008 | Business

Read More: High Food Prices, Bay Area Food Shortage, Rice Prices, Food Crisis, Food Staples, Food Prices, Food Shortage, Bay Area Rice, Rice Shortage, Business News

The price of a food staple -- rice -- is rising significantly, NBC11 reported. The price of rice has increased dramatically in recent weeks due to cr...

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