Tag: food stamps
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10/7 Binge & Purge: Sick, Soda, Studies
Study: 63% of restaurant workers handle food while sick // Politics of food in the pacific northwest // New york seeks food-stamp ban on soda // UN says 22 countries facing food crisis
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8/19 binge & purge: sour, sugar & service
‘fructose-slurping’ cancer could sour the soda business* gm salmon: aquabounty tech seeks fda approval of fast-growing salmon* sugar beetdown; monsanto wins again* dems may use food-stamp money to pay for michelle’s nutrition initiative* US food crops absorb toxic pharmaceuticals & personal care products from treated wastewater* wic should include more organic, says senate; congress disagrees*…
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Food Stamp Tally Nears 40M, Higher Each Month Since Dec ’08
Nearly 40 million Americans received food stamps – the latest in an ever-higher string of record enrollment that dates from December 2008 and the U.S. recession, according to a government update.
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2/11 binge & purge: codex, cocktails & cola cancer
video: how organic is organic? codex alimentarius cohorts wage war against food* (more on codex alimentarius here & here) pharma says: stop selling unlicensed natural health remedies* food stamps at record 32.8m* china recalls 170 tons of melamine milk* flashback: another melamine-tainted milk scandal in china* nyc cracks down on eggs in cocktails* soft drinks…
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survey says: US households struggle to afford food
from nytimes: Nearly one in five Americans said they lacked the money to buy food at some point in the last year, according to a survey co-sponsored by the Gallup organization and released by an anti-hunger group. The numbers soared at the start of the current recession, but dipped in 2009 despite the continuing rise…
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waterwars, recalls, factory farms & foodstamps
growing your own food: green, cheap & delicious ‘flow’: documenting the global water crisisfrom sustainablog: Host Sean Daily talks subject with filmmaker Irena Salina, director of the documentary “FLOW: How Did a Handful of Corporations Steal Our Water?” about the global water crisis and her experience making the film. Wired Magazine referred to the documentary…