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Blue Crabs in Chesapeake Benefitting From Climate Change

• blue crabs
• Chesapeake Bay
• climate change

A study published in late July found that because climate change will shave a few weeks off winters in the mid-Atlantic, baby crabs will stand a better chance of surviving the colder season since food will be available to them sooner and thus they are less likely to starve.

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Fishless Fish — But Does It Taste Fishy?

• Impossible Burger
• seafood

The California based company, Impossible Foods, is on a mission to create tasty alternatives for all animal-based food by 2035 and so are several others — all in the name of feeding the growing population across that globe that relies on fish as its main source of protein.  Following the success of the meatless burger,

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Hummus is Good for You AND the Planet

• chickpeas
• farmers
• farming
• legumes
• pulses

For many of us, hummus is already a snack staple but its popularity as a healthy and filling snack is steadily growing. As NPR reported, Americans spent four times as much money on hummus in the marketplace last year than they did 10 years ago: more than $800 million in 2018 alone. The main ingredient […]

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5 Delicious Things: Food and Drinks to Support National Parks

As we head into the 4th of July holiday, what’s on the menu is often just as important as the fireworks. Did you know that you can support our national parks through some seriously delicious snacks and drinks? Take a look at this list from Food & Wine Magazine to learn more about 5 food […]

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Lox From A Lab on the Horizon

• fish
• food security
• lab
• meat
• overfishing
• Salmon
• sustainable

A company called Wild Type is working to create “better meat to address the most pressing challenges of our generation: climate change, food security, and health.” Overfishing is one of the most pressing risks of our generation – dwindling fishing stocks threaten the oceans ecosystems as well as our own way of life – but Wild Type is working towards finding a solution by developing sustainable alternatives.

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Yikes, We’re Eating 2,000 Pieces of Plastic Each Week

• beer
• BPA
• Chemicals
• food
• National Geographic
• plastic

A new study put out by the University of Newcastle in Australia has revealed that humans are eating, swallowing or breathing in about 2,000 tiny pieces of plastic each week, an amount equal to the weight of one credit card. That’s some literal food for thought as we consider how to curb our addiction to […]

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Midwest Flooding Preventing Farmers from Planting Their Crops, Threatens Food Prices

• agriculture
• crops
• farming
• floods
• Midwest

Here's where the #CropWatch19 #soybeans will be planted in central Kansas, if it ever dries out. pic.twitter.com/w9DkokOlUG — Karen Braun (@kannbwx) May 28, 2019 All across the midwest farmers are not able to begin planting their crops as persistent flooding has caused their fields to resemble shallow lakes. As Reuters explained, “Excessive rain has caused […]

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Climate change coming for our bananas

• agriculture
• bananas
• climate change

The conditions that are ideal for growing bananas–sunny, humid, tropical environments–are also an ideal incubator for the fungus Mycosphaerella fijiensis, more commonly known as Black Sigatoka disease. As Phys explained, Black Sigatoka disease emerged from Asia in the late 20th Century and has recently completed its invasion of banana-growing areas in Latin America and the Caribbean. […]

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New York Times forces us to examine how our diets contribute to climate change

• climate change
• food waste
• New York Times

This week the New York Times wrote a series of fantastic pieces about food and its connection to climate change. We covered the story about how climate change is altering the way some of our favorite crops are being cultivated but we highly recommend that you check out more from this series. Start with this […]

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Changing our mentality around food waste

• agriculture
• food
• food waste
• NatGeo
• produce

Food waste is not only a terrible thing when 15 million U.S. households are food insecure but the one-third of our food supply that we waste is a major contributor to climate change. Yesterday was Stop Foodwaste Day and while most people likely they don’t think they waste THAT much food, more than 80 percent of food waste has been traced to homes and consumer-facing businesses.

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New York fights food waste with ambitious new plan

• Andrew Cuomo
• compost
• food wate
• New York

After the most pro-environment budget agreements in many years, Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature reached an agreement to enact a congestion pricing plan, a new law to ban plastic bags as well as an ambitious new goal to cut food waste.

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96 People Fall Ill Due To E Coli Outbreak

• E. coli
• food
• food safety
• outbreak

Nearly 100 people in 5 states have been sickened due to the latest E. coli outbreak, with eleven of those people being hospitalized since the first case was reported in early March.  Symptoms of E. coli 0103 are serious, including watery or bloody diarrhea, fever, abdominal cramps, nausea, and vomiting, and usually begin 3-4 days after exposure.