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Food - when, where, and how we grow, create, breed, catch, process, and enrich it; and what this means for our planet, culture, health, and palate.
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Research and Markets: China Food Manufacturing Industry Report - 2010| TradingMarkets.comTradingMarkets News for Research and Markets: China Food Manufacturing Industry Report - 2010Thanks to all! Bye. added 2 weeks ago
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Taste Test: Kabosu Boing BoingKabosu is a citrus fruit that tastes kind of like a cross between a lemon, lime, and yuzu. It gets harder to find the further you get from Oita Prefecture, on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, because 98% of all kabosu production takes place there. Legend has it that the tree first arrived ...
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Sea Change: Environmental Group Gives First-Time Nod to Sustainable Salmon-Farming Method: Scientific AmericanFarm-raised salmon has long been the poster child of unsustainable aquaculture practices. Issues of escape, pollution and inefficiency have plunged it deeply into the "avoid" territory of environmental groups—until now. In a report released January 14, the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch ...
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High school students use DNA barcodes to uncover food fraudTwo New York City high school students use a new DNA analysis technique to find 95 different animal species around them. The duo found much more than anticipated with the project when 11 of the 66 foods they looked at had misrepresented the actual contents on the labels. These foods ...
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Rio Tinto accepts Amcor offer for AlcanRio Tinto today formally accepted the offer by Amcor to buy Alcan Packaging for US$2.025bn. The mining giant said the deal would include Alcan’s food Europe and food Asia divisions, as well as its global pharmaceutical and tobacco operations. The company said it has issued its approval ...
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Drug-resistant infections lurk in meat we eat - Infectious diseases- msnbc.comAh yes, those 65K USA lives JUST LAST YEAR (maybe more uncounted internationally and more coming!) lost to diseases probably made or aided in becoming drug resistance by the use of antibiotics to keep animals healthy and food cheaper shouldn't be counted against those "economic benefits". After ...JDP added 2 months ago
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Snow at Highest Elevations No Longer Pure - Yahoo! NewsSop much for "the [snow fed] water from pure mountain streams". How convenient for the corporate water barons.JDP added 3 months ago
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Killer Petunias and Murderous Potatoes Revealed - Yahoo! NewsOh my ... so much for the "gentle kingdom". Turns out plants not only engage in intraspecies and interspecies warfare amoung themselves, but many more of them than originally thought prey on some members of the animal kingdom as well.JDP added 3 months ago
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China executes two over tainted milk scandal - Yahoo! NewsNow there's something one might think about outsourcing to China - appropriate punishments for corporate criminals. Considering how much China lost on the global bankers' gambling, one might wonder if any of those "paragons of finance" will be visiting the Great Wall anytime soon.JDP added 3 months ago
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Shun beef to stop climate change, says India - Yahoo! NewsDUH! India by far and away has the largest number of methane producing cattle at 281,700,000, followed by Brazil (100 million LESS), China, and only then the USA. SO, if reducing the number of cattle will help, India is on the front lines. So what will it be - eat some of those cows? ...JDP added 3 months ago
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