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Maine Town Declares Food Sovereignty
Sedgwick, Maine Do we really need the government to regulate our food? Sedgwick, Maine doesn’t think so and has become the first town to take action towards producing and selling their own foods....
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Food Ark: Will Seed Banks Save Our Sources of Food?
“Experts estimate that we have lost more than half of the world’s food varieties over the past century”. Charles Siebert writes in National Geographic: Svalbard Vault Mountain (Cutaway). Illustration:...
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Oregon Farmer Eaten By His Pigs
Little more remained of hog farmer Terry Vance Garner than his dentures, the Guardian reports: Oregon authorities are investigating how a farmer was eaten by his pigs. Terry Vance Garner, 69, never...
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The Meat Industry Now Consumes Four-Fifths Of All Antibiotics
Will our taste for flesh be what leads to the creation of super-strains of bacteria impervious to antibiotics? Mother Jones reports: Last year, the Food and Drug Administration proposed a set of...
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The Next Real Estate Bubble: Farmland
What’s a poor farmer supposed to do when his or her land is caught up in an investment bubble? Via The American: Farmers have been taking on mounting debt, creating an unsustainable increase in land...
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Food, Farms, Forests, and Fracking: Connecting the Dots
Picture: Zarateman (CC) Ronnie Cummins and Zack Kaldveer write at Common Dreams: If ever there was a time for activist networks and the body politic to cooperate and unite forces, it’s now. Global...
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