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Future Farm: A Sunless, Rainless Room Indoors

DEN BOSCH, Netherlands -- Farming is moving indoors, where the sun never shines, where rainfall is irrelevant and where the climate is always right. The perfect crop field could be inside a windowless building with meticulously controlled light, temperature, humidity, air quality and nutrition. It could be in a New York...

Wal-Mart Pledges to Put Healthier Food in Grocery Aisles

Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer and grocery, announced today that it is continuing its push toward healthier food with a five-year program to reduce sodium, fat and sugar content in the chain's in-house brands and to encourage suppliers to do the same. First lady Michelle Obama joined Wal-Mart executives in...

More Farmers' Markets Expand to Year-Round

PLYMOUTH, Mass. -- A steady stream of customers filled baskets and shopping bags with vegetables, cranberries, cheese, fresh-baked breads and pies while chatting with the dozen or so farmers selling goods in the visitor's center of a local museum. Gary Kazanjian, AP Ching Thao of Mao's Farm gives change to...

What Is Organic? USDA Trying to Define It

(Nov. 7) -- If you've ever wondered exactly what that "USDA organic" seal actually means, you're in good company. The U.S. Department of Agriculture itself has been asking the same question ever since it established the National Organic Program in 2002. "Organic" is intended to mean agricultural products produced without...

Organic Egg Farms May Not Be as Clean as You Think

(Oct. 13) -- After a massive health crisis like the recent 550 million egg recall for salmonella (which came despite new FDA rules), many consumers may have flocked toward USDA organic hoping to find a safer, more environmentally product. But that little green sticker may not be telling you the whole story. Two weeks ago,...

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The Last Diet You Will Ever Need

Why is it that we believe we can feed our bodies industrial, nutrient-depleted food-like substances empty of life and be healthy?

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What's the World's Weirdest Ice Cream Flavor?

Like its old pal cake, ice cream is fine plain but can be adapted endlessly with every flavor and texture you can think of -- and some you can't.

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David Trumble: Life Is Organic, Subjective and Entirely Individual

Two years into my life, I was trying to make sense of the world through drawing.

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Want To Get Your Bronze On? Try This Tan In A Tube

Want to add a little bronze to your skin without the sun? Scott Barnes Body Bling adds a touch of colour and the kind of shine you'll never get with a real tan, without the effort of a sunless tan.

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The Diamond Jubilee and Nature's Prince

On Saturday, June 2, the world's attention will turn to Buckingham Palace, where Queen Elizabeth II will celebrate her Diamond Jubilee. 60 years of being the heir apparent -- the longest time anyone has waited to become king.

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06/03/12 Food Trucks Add American Flavor to Paris Source: The New York Times - New York NY In France, there is still a widespread belief that the daily diet in the United States consists of grossly large servings of fast food.
06/03/12 Best Exotic Meats Source: LA Weekly - Los Angeles CA Michael Pollan and Jonathan Safran Foer have helped bring ethically raised meat into the popular consciousness in recent years.
06/03/12 GMO will not help Swazi farmers Source: Times of Swaziland Kindly publish my responding concern regarding our handling of the GMO technology issue and possible impacts in Swaziland, as published in your newspaper.
06/03/12 Young firm offering healthy vending-machine options Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee WI Ana Docta believes vending machines should dispense more than candy, Cheetos and chips.
06/03/12 How Cleveland is changing its part of broken food... Source: Cleveland.com In Cleveland and around the world, vast amounts of food are wasted while many go hungry.

Background on organic food

Organic foods are foods that are produced using methods that do not involve modern synthetic inputs such as synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers, do not contain genetically modified organisms, and are not processed using irradiation, industrial solvents, or chemical food additives.

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