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• survey says!

  Feed the world sustainably by 2050? Yes, we can! 3

  Posted 17 hours ago by Tom Laskawy

  Adding a bit more data to food system reformers' arguments, a new study led by Germany's prestigious Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research takes on the question of whether we can "feed the world" while preserving the planet come 2050. Read More

• The Copenhagen Conference on food security 6

  Posted 1 day, 13 hours ago by Lester Brown

  For the 193 national delegations gathering in Copenhagen for the U.N. Climate Change Conference, the reasons for concern about climate change vary widely. For delegations from low-lying island countries, the principal concern is rising sea level. For countries of East Asia and the Caribbean, more powerful storms and storm surges are a growing worry. This climate change conference is about all these things, and many more, but in a very fundamental sense, it is a conference about food security. Read More

• Slow food, fast trains

  Random Monday thoughts inspired by a throwaway line from Mark Bittman 4

  Posted 2 days, 12 hours ago by Tom Philpott

  Perhaps feeling punchy because it's Monday, Tom Philpott jots down some random thoughts after reading an interview with home-cooking authority Mark Bittman. Read More

• Climate Citizen: Michael Pollan on agriculture and health care 1

  Posted 5 days, 10 hours ago

  Michael Pollan talks to Grist about the interrelationship between the energy crisis, health care, and our food systems. Read More

• Reckless behavior

  For swine flu, forget origins and start thinking about practices 5

  Posted 6 days, 11 hours ago by Tom Philpott

  Amid a trickle of news and science about swine flu over the past week, I've been rethinking my position on the novel H1N1 virus that has now infected millions of Americans. Read More

• the empire strikes back

  Soda lobby gets its game on 3

  Posted 6 days, 13 hours ago by Tom Laskawy

  The sugar lobby has kept their work against the soda tax off their paperwork and thus out of public sight. But its invisibility doesn't lessen its ferocity or, so far, its effectiveness. Read More

• Two words: endocrine disruptor

  Consumer Reports finds BPA traces in common canned foods 12

  Posted 6 days, 21 hours ago by Tom Philpott

  Bisphenol A, commonly abbreviated as BPA, is vile stuff--not the kind of thing a smart species knowingly introduces into its ecosystem. Tom Philpott marvels that we're doing just that---and storing food in it, no less. Read More

• ISI isn't so popular

  New allies in fight against Obama’s pesticide lobbyist nominee 1

  Posted 1 week ago by Tom Laskawy

  I'm sure many of you have seen the various petitions zipping around the Internet encouraging opposition to President Obama's nomination of pesticide lobbyist Islam "Isi" Siddiqui to the Office of the United State's Trade Representative. The argument against him goes something like this: Read More

• Drinking problems

  I drink raw milk (sold illegally on the underground market) 49

  Posted 1 week, 1 day ago by Joel Salatin

  Isn't it curious that at this juncture in our culture's evolution, we collectively believe Twinkies, Lucky Charms, and Coca-Cola are safe foods, but compost-grown tomatoes and raw milk are not? With legislation moving through Congress demanding that all agricultural practices be "science-based," Joel Salatin believes our food system is at Wounded Knee. Read More

• weasel in sheep's clothing

  If you can’t beat ‘em, cheat ‘em 2

  Posted 1 week, 2 days ago by Tom Laskawy

  Issue 2, on Ohio's ballot, is the livestock industry’s attempt to head off restrictions on their worst practices, such as tail docking, battery cages, and gestation crates Read More

• Deniers with attitude (and power)

  Sen. Inhofe and U.S. Farm Bureau chief casually chat about destroying the climate bill 0

  Posted 1 week, 2 days ago by Tom Philpott

  On the floor of the U.S. Senate, a pair of climate change deniers flexed their muscles against the Kerry-Boxer climate bill. Read More

• Not just a river in Egypt

  Michael Specter’s new book ‘Denialism’ misses its targets 43

  Posted 1 week, 4 days ago by Tom Philpott

  A big-time New Yorker writer has come out with a book denouncing scientific "denialism." Tom Philpott can't believe Michael Specter let climate deniers off the hook--and instead goes after proponents of organic agriculture. Read More

• N.Y. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand answers Grist’s questions on the Kerry-Boxer bill 1

  Posted 1 week, 5 days ago by David Roberts

• The most frightening story this Halloween is ... pumpkintop removal 1

  Posted 1 week, 5 days ago by Ashley Braun

• This Halloween, have your pumpkin—and eat it, too 5

  Posted 1 week, 6 days ago by April McGreger

• Save us, [insert techno-fix here], you’re our only hope! 7

  Posted 1 week, 6 days ago by Tom Laskawy

• Six months after the outbreak, who’s investigating the CAFO-swine flu link? 16

  Posted 1 week, 6 days ago by Tom Philpott

• Heat makes honey toxic, and other myths of the hive 10

  Posted 2 weeks ago by Lou Bendrick

• Black (fly) magic 5

  Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago by Erik Hoffner

• Scientists claim junk food is as addictive as heroin 18

  Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago by Tom Laskawy

• Obama’s attempt to tap an agrichemical-industry flack runs into trouble 2

  Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago by Tom Philpott

• Ask Umbra on canned and frozen foods 23

  Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago by Umbra Fisk

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