• Food

Why We Need Crop Diversity

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• agricultre
• biodiversity
• crops
• farming
• food

Over the past 50 years, fewer crops are feeding the world’s people and diets around the world are becoming more alike. This puts us at risk of a “globalized diet” based on major crops such as soybeans, wheat, rice, and corn–which are grown on almost half the world’s agricultural lands.

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One Smaller Thing: Half a Loaf of Bread Cuts Food Waste

• food waste
• half a loaf

The Wall Street Journal’s headline says it all — “Smaller Loaves of Bread Are on the Rise.  Bakers cook up new options to suit small households and millennials who don’t want to waste food.”  We hate food waste!  And we know you do too, and don’t want to buy more than you will use. So […]

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This Year, Should You Pardon the Turkey?

• plant based
• Thanksgiving
• vegan
• vegetarian

A vegetarian or even vegan Thanksgiving does not have to be a sacrifice!  This year, there are more ways to prepare a meatless Thanksgiving meal, with recipes in abundance (keep reading).  And more Americans than ever are preparing meat-free meals this Thanksgiving, according to Time Magazine — due to climate change and health reasons.

Why This Matters:  Time reports that a Neilsen poll taken in December 2018 found that more than 60% of Americans are willing to cut back on their meat consumption in order to personally reduce their carbon footprint.

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One Strong Thing: The Game Changers Tells Story of Exceptional Athletes Who Gave Up Meat

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• #GameChangersMovie
• #TeamGameChangers
• plant-based diet

What do James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jackie Chan, Lewis Hamilton, Novak Djokavic, and Chris Paul have in common?  They are the producers of a documentary film called “The Game Changers” that sets out to show that one can be an exceptional athlete on a solely plant-based diet without any meat protein.  The film tells the […]

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New York To Bid Foie Gras Adieu

• animal cruelty
• animal rights
• foie gras
• New York City

The New York City Council voted overwhelmingly to ban the French delicacy foie gras from being sold in restaurants, stores, and farmer’s markets because it is made by force-feeding ducks and geese to fatten up their livers in a way that some consider the “most inhumane process in the commercial food industry,” according to The […]

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Cranberry Farmers in Massachusetts Giving Thanks for Solar Opportunity

• cranberries
• solar power
• trade war

Cranberries, well cranberry prices actually, are underwater — today it costs $35 to produce a barrel of the tart red fruit, but in 2018 that barrel sold for only $25 according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data.  Now some cranberry producers in Massachusetts, the second-largest grower after Wisconsin, want to do something that has not been tried before at scale — build solar panels above the bogs they harvest each fall.  They hope to build solar arrays high enough off the ground and in spaced-out clusters that allow for cranberries to be safely grown and harvested underneath.