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Better Burger Challenge Launches Nationwide on Memorial Day
A better burger replaces standard industrial beef with higher quality certified grass-fed and/or organic pasture-raised meat — and then blends 30 percent of the burger with organic veggies and…
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Senate Should Take a Stand On Perdue
The USDA needs a champion who will support small family farmers, food safety standards, and healthier food — not another shill for big agribusiness.
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How Greener School Lunches Can Help Fight Climate Change
Greening school food should be a primary ingredient in combating climate change—just as important as making schools more solar-powered and energy efficient.
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New data find climate-friendly, healthy meals within reach for public schools
While cities and states are leading efforts to combat climate change, shifting institutional food purchasing has rarely been tapped as a climate mitigation strategy.
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Time to Turn Olive Garden’s Good Food Rhetoric into Reality
Darden is a major purchaser of meat and dairy — and should use that purchasing power to demand that its suppliers employ better animal welfare practices.
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Farming for the Future: Organic and Agroecological Solutions to Feed the World
Farming for the Future details the science that demonstrates that organic and agroecological farming are fundamental to feeding all people, now and into the future.
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Chain Reaction II: How Top Restaurants Rate on Reducing Use of Antibiotics in Their Meat Supply
Second annual report and scorecard that grades America’s top restaurant chains’ on their policies and practices regarding antibiotics use and transparency in their meat and poultry supply chains.
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Comments on U.S. Food Service Guidelines
On behalf of Friends of the Earth (FOE), I appreciate the opportunity to provide responses to questions seven and eight from the RFI for solicitation number: FY15WellnessAmenityProgram regarding the 2…
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Big food and chemical corporations spend millions to attack organic
This onslaught of industry-sponsored spin is aimed at stemming the growing tide of consumers seeking healthier food produced without GMOs, toxic pesticides or routine antibiotics.
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Spinning Food
The industrial food and agricultural sector spent hundreds of millions of dollars from 2009 to 2013 on communications efforts to spin the media, drive consumer behavior and advance its policy agenda.