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Chef Tom Colicchio Finds New Direction; Big Oil Wastewater Seeps Into Agricultural Land; Honey Bees VS. Native Populations: What’s the difference?

Posted on January 29, 2018

Chef Tom Colicchio Leaves Food Policy Action Group He Started Tom Colicchio, a chef and television personality who has in recent years become well-known for his political action, is leaving Food Policy Action, the organization he helped found in 2012. … Read More

Posted in In The News Tagged with: #bee keeping, #bil oil industry, #environmental preservation, #environmental working grou, #farmer, #food and water watch, #fpa, #ken cook, #large food corporations, #legislation, #oil wastewater, #take action, #Tom Colicchio, #toxic chemicals, #wild honeybees

Keep the Soil, Not the Grass; Artists’ Share More Than Fruit; Healthy School Food is Here to Stay; NY Fast-Food Workers Make Political Gains; Nestle Comments to Protect Food Safety

Posted on June 13, 2017

U.S. Pays Farmers Billions To Save The Soil. But It’s Blowing Away – NPR, the Salt In recent years, dust storms have returned, driven mainly by drought. But, according to rural residents and others, farmers are “making the problem worse by … Read More

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In The News: World’s Largest Spice Company to Go Organic and Non-GMO by 2016; Scientists Want To See Microbeads Banned; Chinese Companies are Mass Producing Plastic Rice; How Top Restaurants Rate on Reducing Use of Antibiotics in Their Meat Supply

Posted on September 21, 2015

World’s Largest Spice Company to Go Organic and Non-GMO by 2016 If you are familiar to cooking at home, then you have to be familiar with the leading spice company, McCormick, who pledges that most of their products with be … Read More

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In The News: National Program Continues to Increase Local Foods in Schools, Stop Monsanto?s attack on GMO labeling, Celebrating World Water Day, How Plastic In The Ocean Is Contaminating Your Seafood

Posted on March 24, 2015

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National Program Continues to Increase Local Foods in Schools Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the release of a request for applications for the USDA’s Fiscal Year 2016 round of Farm to School grants. Designed to increase the availability of … Read More

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