Dumpster Diver Arrested & Handcuffed for Taking Food From Trash
Back in 2008 we heard about a man arrested for stealing waste grease to make biodiesel but as Kristin noted in her post about the freegan documentary Dive! The Film, dumpster divers eating from the...
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Bloom Energy, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California has developed an incredible technology that traces its roots to NASA’s Mars program. This technology is one of the few available that saves you...
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Local Food Freedom Laws Enacted in Maine
Blue Hill, Maine will be one of several towns in Maine to recently enact food freedom laws declaring that the federal government doesn’t have the right to intervene in local food matters, according to...
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USDA Outsources Biotech Crop Evaluation to the GMO Industry
The U.S. is already cultivating 165 million acres of genetically modified crops, up 7 million acres from just two years ago. Modified seeds and large monocultures in general, are monopolizing our...
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Callous New Law to Close Award-Winning Urban Farming High School For Pregnant...
If there’s ever a story that hit me hard, it was this one. I wrote about Catherine Ferguson Academy last year. It was the subject of the groundbreaking documentary Grown in Detroit. The school is one...
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Thanks To Jamie Oliver Los Angeles Schools May Actually Ban Flavored Milk
Chocolate milk has become a real point of contention in schools across the nation. Schools in the District of Columbia and Los Angeles County have become the center of controversy over none other than...
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FDA Issues First Rules Under New Food Safety Bill
The new rules are set to be implemented July 3. According to Food Production Daily: The first regulation allows the FDA to detain foods that the agency believes to have been produced under unsanitary...
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Artisan Yogurt Producer Choked Out of Business By Bureaucratic Red Tape
Just as it seems we may be moving back toward some sort of food culture in a nation plagued by the side effects of big Ag, red tape chokes another small producer out of business. Take the story of...
View ArticleSenate Introduces Bill to Limit Use of Antibiotics in Livestock
Antibiotic resistance has finally made its way onto the Senate radar again and with good reason considering that we’ve seen antibiotic resistance across British farms and this year in US hospitals and...
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