Food and Ag

Tom's Kitchen: Udon Noodles With Eggplant, Greens, and Beans

Fall meets spring in this Japanese-inspired dish.

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| Wed Oct. 10, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Historic Food Market Gets Torched in Syria's Civil War

Aleppo's Souk Madina, badly damaged last weekend, is a part of global culinary heritage.

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| Thu Oct. 4, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

How GMOs Unleashed a Pesticide Gusher

And it's only just begun, a new peer-reviewed paper finds.

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| Wed Oct. 3, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Forget Baconpocalypse—Fishageddon Will Be Worse

Climate change is really bad news for people who depend on seafood (and even you bacon lovers).

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| Mon Oct. 1, 2012 12:30 PM PDT

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Tom's Kitchen: Quick and Easy Zucchini Fritters

Had enough summer squash? Nothing a fritter won't sort out.

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| Fri Sep. 28, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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BPA From Cans Messes With Your Ovaries

A new study on rhesus monkeys—a species with a reproductive system very similar to humans'—shows serious trouble with the ubiquitous, FDA-approved chemical.

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| Thu Sep. 27, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

My SXSW Eco Panel: the Future of Organic

I'll be in Austin next week speaking at the green schmoozefest.

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| Wed Sep. 26, 2012 8:20 PM PDT
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The Impending Global Bacon Shortage... and Climate Change

If this won't convince you to care about global warming...

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| Wed Sep. 26, 2012 8:33 AM PDT
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Does Monsanto Man Mitt Romney Secretly Eat Organic?

By privately eating organic and publicly pushing industrial food, Mitt Romney is following a tradition that dates to Clinton and Bush II.

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| Wed Sep. 26, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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Is Raw Milk Really Good for You?

It might taste great, but pasteurization was invented for a reason.

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| Mon Sep. 24, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

VIDEO: "Farm It Maybe"

Watch out, Carly Rae Jepsen. This kid has moves AND cows.

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| Fri Sep. 21, 2012 11:02 AM PDT

"New" CO2 Source Spells Trouble for Marine Life

As the oceans warm, the combined effects of CO2 from the atmosphere with CO2 from water pollution will intensify ocean acidification more than the sum of the two—bad news for oysters, clams, mussels, and finfish.

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| Fri Sep. 21, 2012 3:07 AM PDT

Does GMO Corn Really Cause Tumors in Rats?

The significance of the first long-term study of GMO safety is getting a lot of buzz—but it's strictly limited by small sample size.

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| Fri Sep. 21, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Waiter, There's Arsenic in My Rice

A new Consumer Reports study finds significant amounts of arsenic in rice—and implicates factory chicken farming.

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| Wed Sep. 19, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Hottest Ever Water Temperatures Off East Coast All the Way Down to the Bottom of the Ocean

It got crazy warm wildly early for the first six months of 2012—in the same place just declared a fishery disaster zone.

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| Tue Sep. 18, 2012 11:49 AM PDT

Monsanto's Roundup Is the Most Used Herbicide in NYC

Despite piles of research suggesting that Roundup is dangerous, the Big Apple continues to douse its parks with the stuff—potentially exposing millions of New Yorkers to toxic effects.

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| Mon Sep. 17, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

"Pink Slime": Back, With a $1.2 Billion Lawsuit

BPI, maker of the famed burger-meat filler, is suing ABC News; Cargill, meanwhile, may start ramping up production again.

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| Sat Sep. 15, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

How Mitt Romney Helped Monsanto Take Over the World

The presidential candidate helped Monsanto transform from teetering, scandal-plagued chemical firm to shiny new ag-biotech giant.

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| Fri Sep. 14, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Fisheries Declared Disasters on 4 Coasts

Will fishers be able to get the kind of disaster relief commonly given to farmers?

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| Thu Sep. 13, 2012 2:37 PM PDT

The Sugar and Alzheimer's Connection

An emerging body of research links Alzheimer's and other brain dysfunction with insulin resistance.

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| Thu Sep. 13, 2012 10:10 AM PDT