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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 […]