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What About Excess Waist? To cut down waste, some Hong Kong restaurants charge for leftovers		19 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
What About Excess Waist? To cut down waste, some Hong Kong restaurants charge for leftovers Do you miss the good ol' days of childhood? The park, the play dates, the eat-everything-on-your-plate-or-else lectures? Well, we can't fit you on the child-size slide or bring back your pre-K paramour, but if you want to be chided for leaving leftovers, get ye to Hong Kong. In an effort to cut down on excess waste, som ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Hong Kong, news, waste (all these topics)

Grinding to a Halt Changes in USDA policy could hit organic coffee hard		09 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Grinding to a Halt Changes in USDA policy could hit organic coffee hard Hold onto your latte: News is seeping out about a change at the U.S. Department of Agriculture that could affect the cost and availability of organic products from developing countries, including bananas, spices, sugar, and coffee. Normally, a farm must undergo an annual inspection to get certified. But for years, co ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, news, organic food (all these topics)

Don't Make Me Pull This Cargill Over Amazon soy export plant shut down in win for environmentalists		28 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Don't Make Me Pull This Cargill Over Amazon soy export plant shut down in win for environmentalists Greens did a victory dance this weekend as Brazil forced U.S. agribiz giant Cargill to close a soy export terminal in the country's Amazon region. The facility has long been the focus of a targeted Greenpeace campaign protesting rapid deforestation of the tropical rainforest -- which lost about 6,5 ...
Topics: Amazon, Big Ag, deforestation, food and agriculture, news (all these topics)

I'm Hot, Sticky Sweet Vermont's maple-syrup industry braces for climate change		26 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
I'm Hot, Sticky Sweet Vermont's maple-syrup industry braces for climate change Will warmer winters stop the flow of Vermont maple syrup? That's the question of the day in the Green Mountain State, where folks worry that climate change will make the $200 million industry -- which provides 32 percent of U.S. syrup output -- dry up. "I've always been, 'Oh, global warming, I don't kno ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, food and agriculture, news, Vermont (all these topics)

Cob Report Coalition of ranchers and farmers fights subsidies for corn ethanol		19 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Cob Report Coalition of ranchers and farmers fights subsidies for corn ethanol It's one thing when dirty hippies oppose your energy-independence scheme, but when ranchers, chicken farmers, and pork producers pile on the hate, that's trouble. An ad hoc coalition is opposing U.S. corn ethanol subsidies and pushing to end U.S. tariffs on Brazilian sugarcane ethanol. "This ...
Topics: ag subsidies, energy, ethanol, food and agriculture, grassroots activism, news (all these topics)

Turnip Out is Fair Play FDA issues voluntary produce-safety guidelines		16 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Turnip Out is Fair Play FDA issues voluntary produce-safety guidelines If you've shied away from spinach since last year's widespread E. coli outbreak, this should give you comfort: the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued voluntary guidelines this week to help keep fresh-cut produce safe. What, the "voluntary" part gives you pause? Pshaw. Pointing out that voluntary guidelines for pro ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Food and Drug Administration, news (all these topics)

Was It the Cowlick? U.S. federal judge bans sales, planting of genetically modified alfalfa		13 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Was It the Cowlick? U.S. federal judge bans sales, planting of genetically modified alfalfa A first-of-its-kind ruling in the U.S. will stop Monsanto's genetically modified alfalfa in its tracks -- for now. Citing the USDA's failure to conduct an environmental impact statement before approving the crop in 2005 and its "cavalier" response to concerns that the franken-falfa could contami ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, GMOs, news (all these topics)

Now If Only They'd Stop Serving Meat Restaurant biz hops onto the green bandwagon		08 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Now If Only They'd Stop Serving Meat Restaurant biz hops onto the green bandwagon Green ain't just the color of the broccoli anymore in the restaurant biz. And a good thing too: the average restaurant generates 50,000 pounds of waste (half of it food) and uses 300,000 gallons of water every year. Enter the Green Restaurant Association, which provides environmental assessments and "certifi ...
Topics: business, food and agriculture, greening biz operations, news (all these topics)

Carry On My Wayward Gene Kansas could see first commercial crop of human-gene-containing rice		02 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Carry On My Wayward Gene Kansas could see first commercial crop of human-gene-containing rice A California company is one step closer to growing rice that contains human genes on a commercial scale. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has given a preliminary OK to a plan to sow 450 Kansas acres with the stuff this spring, with 2,750 more acres to come. Ventria Bioscience's three Frankenr ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, GMOs, Kansas, news (all these topics)

Kenya Screw Me Now? African farmers fear impact of U.K. supermarkets buying local		22 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Kenya Screw Me Now? African farmers fear impact of U.K. supermarkets buying local Last month, British supermarket giant Tesco announced a few changes it's making with the climate in mind, including limiting flown-in food. Which is all well and good, unless you're a farmer in Africa wondering what the hell is going on. Some fear that moves in the industrial world meant to reduce the carbon footprint -- an ...
Topics: Africa, food and agriculture, news, United Kingdom (all these topics)

The Way to a Manchester's Stomach New study says some organic food no better for the environment		20 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
The Way to a Manchester's Stomach New study says some organic food no better for the environment In case you weren't confused enough about your grocery shopping, a government-sponsored study in the U.K. has added a possible twist. It suggests that some organic foods may not be better for the environment than their conventional counterparts. While the 200-page study by the Manchester Business School found that man ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Chow Pain Faced with contaminated food, Chinese shoppers pony up for organics		13 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Chow Pain Faced with contaminated food, Chinese shoppers pony up for organics Got a hankering for lard made from sewage and industrial oil? Look no further than the mean streets of China's cities. Such "fake food," along with real food contaminated by pollution and pesticides, is showing up on shelves -- and turning the stomachs of urban denizens. As a result, according to state-conducted research, mo ...
Topics: China, food and agriculture, news, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

You Put Your Seed in There Norway reveals design for 'doomsday' seed vault		09 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
You Put Your Seed in There Norway reveals design for "doomsday" seed vault Architecture geeks are salivating over Norway's release of the design of an agricultural "doomsday vault." The structure, which will cost $5 million to build and $125,000 a year to run, will hold seeds for the world's 1.5 million distinct crop varieties. You know, in case the guy who survives the apocalypse gets the nibbles. Li ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news, Norway (all these topics)

The Airspeed Velocity of an Uneaten Swallow Food imported by air may lose organic certification in Britain		30 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
The Airspeed Velocity of an Uneaten Swallow Food imported by air may lose organic certification in Britain Foods imported into Britain by airplane may not qualify as organic if the country's main certification body has its druthers. On Friday, the Soil Association announced it will spend a year considering a proposal to factor flight distance into its organic standards. While it will ponder differen ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news, placemaking, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Don't Have a Cow About 20 percent of farm-animal breeds* are endangered, says FAO		18 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
Don't Have a Cow About 20 percent of farm-animal breeds* are endangered, says FAO Word association time: What comes to mind when you think "endangered animals"? Odd-looking tropical frogs and obscure birds with funny names? Time to adjust your thinking: The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that one in five breeds of farm animal are in danger of extinction. Of more than 7,600 b ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news, United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

Situation Normal, All Ducked Up Feds won't make livestock-identification plan mandatory		13 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
Situation Normal, All Ducked Up Feds won't make livestock-identification plan mandatory Surprising exactly no one, a federal plan to track all U.S. livestock with ID tags remains controversial with farmers. Surprising some, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has given up on making it mandatory. Intended to trace disease and to combat -- wait for it -- agroterrorism, the National Animal Identification S ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, news (all these topics)

Till There Was You Researchers hope new crops, methods will help farmers fight climate effects		04 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
Till There Was You Researchers hope new crops, methods will help farmers fight climate effects Agricultural researchers are joining the legions who are working to help the world respond to climate change. A coalition called the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (which goes by the just-shy-of-delicious acronym CGIAR) is launching an initiative today that will pour money into developing crops that can ...
Topics: food and agriculture, GMOs, news (all these topics)

Do Not Giggle Livestock sector spews a fifth of human-caused greenhouse-gas emissions, says U.N.		01 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
Do Not Giggle Livestock sector spews a fifth of human-caused greenhouse-gas emissions, says U.N. The U.N. has issued fresh content on a vital cause of global warming: cow farts. It seems that 18 percent of human-caused greenhouse gases stem from farm animals and the livestock industry, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. Besides poots, agriculture-related deforestation and energy us ...
Topics: climate, food and agriculture, news, United Nations (all these topics)

The Case of the Mislabeled Case Wal-Mart accused of incorrectly labeling organic products		16 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
The Case of the Mislabeled Case Wal-Mart accused of incorrectly labeling organic products Ah, Wal-Mart -- always reliable for some good old-fashioned eco-drama. This week, the Cornucopia Institute, an activist group representing small farmers, filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture that accuses Wal-Mart of incorrectly labeling or otherwise misrepresenting various products ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, news, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Adventures in Agriculture U.S. gets approval for ozone-depleting pesticide, despite international objections		06 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Adventures in Agriculture U.S. gets approval for ozone-depleting pesticide, despite international objections Pursuing its goal of world destruction (mwahaha!), the U.S. won approval to continue using and making a pesticide banned under an international ozone treaty. The decision, which countered the recommendation of the treaty's technical committee, allows a 5,900-ton methyl bromide exemption in 2008 -- ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Filet of the Land New studies give conflicting advice about the benefits and risks of eating fish		18 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Filet of the Land New studies give conflicting advice about the benefits and risks of eating fish Two studies released yesterday are likely to confuse you even further about the benefits and risks of eating fish. A report from the Harvard School of Public Health claims that fish consumption can reduce the risk of coronary death by 36 percent, and total mortality by 17 percent -- benefits that far o ...
Topics: food and agriculture, health, marine life, news, toxics (all these topics)

Take Me to Your Weeder Solar-powered robot could pick weeds and reduce herbicide use		13 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Take Me to Your Weeder Solar-powered robot could pick weeds and reduce herbicide use Here's an innovative idea for limiting herbicide use: A solar-powered robot with 20/20 vision and depth perception that uses GPS navigation to search out and destroy weeds. As it moves along at three miles per hour, the two-foot-tall, five-foot-long robot, designed by engineers at the University of Illinois, can tel ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news, solar voltaic power, toxics (all these topics)

The Killing Fields Study links breast cancer to farm work		13 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
The Killing Fields Study links breast cancer to farm work October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Think that has nothing to do with the environment? Guess again. A new study of women in Windsor, Ontario, found that those who have worked on a farm are 2.8 times more likely to develop breast cancer than those who haven't. The research was published yesterday in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. "If you ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news, toxics (all these topics)

To Catch a Leaf FBI raids companies linked to E. coli-tainted spinach		05 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
To Catch a Leaf FBI raids companies linked to E. coli-tainted spinach Federal agents raided two produce plants in Salinas Valley, Calif., yesterday, as part of a criminal investigation into whether they violated food-safety and environmental laws in distributing E. coli-tainted spinach. The FBI and the Food and Drug Administration executed search warran ...
Topics: California, Federal Bureau of Investigation, food and agriculture, Food and Drug Administration, news (all these topics)

San Joaquin Phoenix Dead San Joaquin River will be revived		15 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
San Joaquin Phoenix Dead San Joaquin River will be revived More than 60 miles of California's dead, sandy San Joaquin River may yet run with water and salmon again, as enviros and farmers have settled an 18-year legal battle over the river's fate. Based on a new 20-year, $250-to-$800 million restoration plan, agricultural water diversion from the river will be reduced by an a ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, news, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts (all these topics)

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