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Vatican Cautions Against GMOs

by Jeff Nield, Vancouver, British Columbia on 03.18.10
Food & Health

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Vatican Gardens by Hello, I Am Bruce via Flickr

For years, groups both for and against Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) have been lobbying for endorsement from the Vatican. Up until now the the Holy See has remained neutral on the subject although is has sponsored studies that seemed to have the goal of promoting the use of GMOs to cure world hunger.

The Catholic News Service (CNS) is now reporting what looks to be an official stance against GMOs.

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Cook From Scratch with Destination Dinners Kits: Hit or Miss?

by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 03.18.10
Food & Health

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Springwise, a "daily fix of entrepreneurial ideas" shows us Destination Dinners, which makes "cooking authentic dishes from around the world fun, easy and educational." For $25 or $30, you get "pre-measured hard to find spices, sauces and dried ingredients, preparation instructions, shopping list for fresh items and trivia about the destination."

Plus a lot of plastic.

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How to Feed The World? (Video)

by Jeff Nield, Vancouver, British Columbia on 03.18.10
Food & Health

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Still from How To Feed The World? by Denis van Waerebeke

The world food system is extremely complex. Trying to comprehend how farmers in Africa are impacted by decision we make at the grocery store in the west - and the whims of commodities traders in Chicago - can hurt the brain.

Lucky for us French multimedia artist Denis van Waerebeke made a video to help us understand.

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Gorilla Marketing 101: Nestlé, Palm Oil and the Power of the Internet

by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 03.18.10
Food & Health

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Protesters in Orangutan suits and modified Kit Kat signs.

In a great example of Gorilla marketing, Greenpeace in Europe appears to have been successful in persuading Nestlé to drop Indonesian palm oil producer Sinar Mas Group because of their "continued expansion into rain forests and "critical orangutan habitat." The campaign focuses on Kit Kat, the most popular chocolate bar in Europe, and is a great example of how activists can succeed and how corporations can screw up bigtime.

(Note: Nestlé does not make Kit Kat in the United States, it is licenced to Hershey)

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Water Wars - Pitting Salmon Against Agribusiness

by Jaymi Heimbuch, San Francisco, California on 03.17.10
Food & Health

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Photo via Dan Bennett

Salmon and salad. Two things we might not jump to make a link between unless they're both on a menu at a restaurant. However, they're more intensely connected than one might think. And we're not talking water pollution from farm land run off. Nope - we're talking no water at all...for the salmon. Agribusiness is draining the very rivers and streams the salmon need to reproduce.

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Wasted Food: Trashing the Idea of Throwaway Food

by Sami Grover, Carrboro, NC, USA on 03.17.10
Food & Health

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Image credit: Wasted Food

On some basic moral level, there is very little more repugnant than wasting good food. Having written about massive on-site composting, freeganism and even jet fuel made from food waste, it would be fair to say that I am somewhat obsessed with this subject. But the other day I was handed a business card in the street by Jonathan Bloom, author of a blog called Wasted Food—and Jonathan puts my mild obsession to shame. This guy lives, breathes, sleeps and, dare I say it, eats food waste.

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Con Man Jailed for Selling Fake Organic Eggs

by Bonnie Alter, London on 03.15.10
Food & Health

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Image from doh.sd.gov

This is not a yolk. It's something many of us may have thought about: how do we know that the eggs we are buying really are organic or free range? The answer is: we don't.

Last week a man was jailed for selling more than 100 million eggs that were supposedly free range or organic. Instead, it turns out that they were raised in battery cages and sold to Britain's biggest supermarkets under false pretenses over an 18 month period.


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Happy Pi Day From TreeHugger and Planet Green

by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 03.14.10
Food & Health

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We are big fans of Pi Day and have been celebrating it for years, last year with this yummy mushroom and barley pie. Having the great event fall on a Sunday this year threw us off, so instead we round up our previous posts.

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