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Hey McDonald’s, maybe don’t make your product literally look like excrement
Is this truly the MOST appetizing that McDonald's food can look?
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Data farm: MacArthur genius looks for food solutions from space
David Lobell's technique: Rise above the debate, collect and connect datasets, and try to figure out which sustainable farming techniques actually work.
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Global food waste explained (with five tomatoes)
Each year, the world produces about 1,471 pounds of edible food for every person on the planet. We only eat about half of that. What happens to the rest? This video breaks it down.
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Super foodie Alice Waters launches anti-fracking fight
The slow food movement champ circulated a petition Wednesday that calls for a moratorium on the practice, saying it threatens water and farms.
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Cow farts still stink up the climate — but relief is possible
Livestock rearing contributes 14.5 percent of greenhouse gas emissions -- more than half of that from methane-spewing cattle. Also: We can change this.
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Teens’ school lunches include pooperoni, fish milk, and “interesting pile”
We're not sure these photos and snarky captions will improve school lunches, but they are hilarious.
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This weird chicken egg is blue because it has a virus
Want a labor-free Easter? All you need is a (harmless) chicken disease.
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Wasted food is a huge climate problem
If wasted food were a country, it would be the world's third largest contributor to climate change, after China and the U.S.
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Ground Zero garden revisited: Remembering 9/11 with a homegrown meal
"Four Fish" author Paul Greenberg assembles an entire meal out of foods grown or caught near the World Trade Center site.
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There’s arsenic in your rice, but don’t worry about it, says FDA
The Food & Drug Administration tested 1,300 samples of rice and found arsenic in them all, but only in very small amounts.
