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Headline	Author	Published	Section
School-lunch crunch Higher food prices mean crappier cafeteria fare for kids	Tom Philpott	16 Apr 2008	Gristmill
As food prices rise, who gets hit first and hardest? Clearly, urban dwellers in the global south, where people spend upwards of half of their incomes on food. According to the Wall Street Journal, here's the ever-growing list of nations that have experienced food-price riots:Rioting in response to soaring food prices recently has broken out in Egypt, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Senegal, and Ethiopia. In Pakistan and Thailand, army troops have been deployed to ...
Topics: agriculture, education, food, green living, health, parenting (all these topics)

Dropping (Fatty) Acid Organic food healthier than non-organic, research finds		29 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 5:16 PM on 29 Oct 2007 Who woulda thunk: Organic food is healthier than pesticide-ridden food, according to preliminary results of a four-year study funded by the European Union. Researchers found that organic nosh contained more antioxidants (yum!) and less fatty acids (ew!) than non-organic. Organic milk was found to have up to 80 percent more antioxidants than conventional cow juice, as well as higher amo ...
Topics: agriculture, food, green living, health, news, organic food, scientific research (all these topics)

Sow What? A Grist special series on food and farming		09 Oct 2007	Grist Feature
You know where babies come from, sure -- but do you know where Tater Tots come from? In this two-week series, we'll take you on a behind-the-scenes tour of your very own diet. Everybody eats, every day, but we tend to gloss over the details. Things like the work that really goes into putting food on our plates, the environmental impacts of food production, and how we can make the best choices -- for our bodies and the planet -- ...
Topics: agriculture, food, green living, health (all these topics)

Too, Too Sullied Flesh Meat production spews more greenhouse gases than a three-hour joyride		20 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Too, Too Sullied Flesh Meat production spews more greenhouse gases than a three-hour joyride The next time you chomp a hamburger, think of this: the process of getting that beef to your bun may have spewed more greenhouse-gas emissions than leaving all your house lights blazing while taking a three-hour joyride in your car. Researchers looked at b ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, climate change impacts, food, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, health, news (all these topics)

More beef = fewer babies? Growth promoters in beef may damage sperm	Julia Olmstead	29 Mar 2007	Gristmill
As reported by the BBC, a University of Rochester study found recently that men whose mothers ate lots of beef during their pregnancies had lower sperm counts than the sons of women who ate little or no beef while pregnant: Among sons of mothers who ate a lot of beef, 17.7 percent had a sperm concentration below the World Health Organization sub-fertility threshold of 20 million sperm per millilitre of seminal fluid. The figure for the sons of lower beef consumers ...
Topics: agriculture, food, green living, health (all these topics)

Punishment for gluttons? Rising costs affect consumers	Clark Williams-Derry	28 Mar 2007	Gristmill
One of the side effects of the rapid increase in ethanol consumption in the U.S. is that corn -- the main feedstock for ethanol -- has gotten much more expensive. Just take a look at the futures markets: the July 2007 corn contract started climbing last fall, which was about the time people started to realize just how quickly demand for corn-based ethanol was growing. Obviously, rising costs trickle down to consumers in all sorts of ways. If corn prices st ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, energy, ethanol, food, green living, health (all these topics)

Rethinking the bottom line Bill McKibben questions thinking as usual when it comes to climate.	Anna Fahey	21 Mar 2007	Gristmill
The old thinking, as author and thinker Bill McKibben explains in today's LA Times, goes like this: bigger is always better, growth is good no matter what, and a booming stock market is the ultimate measure of our success. McKibben illustrates the kind of lopsided priorities that naturally flow when we're ruled by the bottom line, pointing to a scarcely-reported White House report that said the U.S. would be pumping out almost 20 percent more greenhous ...
Topics: agriculture, Bill McKibben, farmers markets, food, green living, health, local food (all these topics)

'Drop-dead gorgeous guts' Metamucil's bold new marketing, uh, move	Tom Philpott	20 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Most people know intuitively that when they eat plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, they feel better and probably even look better. It's a virtuous circle, and you can try it at home. Eat fresh produce. Feel better. Look better. Crave fresh produce. But the food-pharmaceutical industry (yes, they're related) doesn't make much money when you eat a lot of fresh produce. It makes much more sense to them if you eat a lot of 'value-added' (i.e., highly processed) ...
Topics: agriculture, food, green living, health (all these topics)

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