Food Production, Processing and Distribution to June 2012
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Brazil has pulled off an environmental coup.
Can We Make Enough Food To Eat Without Cutting Down All The Trees?
Though human life has changed much over a few hundred thousand years, the drive to kill and eat other animals lingers on from our earliest days. But with technology transforming so many other aspects of daily life, will feedlots and slaughterhouses someday go the way of stone tools and cave dwellings? They may if scientists succeed in their experiments in culturing meat muscle tissue grown in a laboratory dish.
Lab Meat Would Sidestep ‘Grossly Inefficient’ Livestock Industry
Eric Draper for The New York Times Rufina Cowboy removes weeds in the community garden near her home in Cuba, N.M. With her doctor's help, Ms.
Pepsi and Competitors Scramble as Soda Sales Drop
Supporting local agriculture and food traditions? Far too narrow a goal, they said.
For Them, a Great Meal Tops Good Intentions
Peter Kaminsky's Culinary Intelligence at Epicurious
P eter Kaminsky is no stranger to good eating. He's written cookbooks with Gray Kunz, Daniel Boulud, John Madden, and, new in May 2012, Adam Perry Lang . He worked for four years as a food critic for New York magazine and dissected the art of Argentine grilling with Francis Mallmann in the 2010 James Beard Award–winner Seven Fires .
Source: alertnet // Anastasia Moloney Ester Jerome, Tanzania, March 2012. Photo credit: OXFAM INTERNATIONAL
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We’ll See Your Cheeseburger Stuffed Crust Pizza and Raise You
Just when you thought the world’s pizzamongers couldn’t pack any more mind-boggling ingredients into a pizza crust, they did. Pizza Hut Middle East has just introduced their latest heart attack on a plate, the “ Crown Crust Cheeseburger Pizza .” It’s actually fairly impressive.Pizza Hut's Crown Crust Pizza
In an apparent on-going effort to fatten up the rest of the world American-style, Pizza Hut — which just released a pizza with hot dogs stuffed inside the crust in the UK — is now offering a cheeseburger crust pizza in the Middle East. Yes, this culinary abomination — called the “Crown Crust Pizza” — is no joke, and it has an equally appalling companion: a chicken nugget crust pizza.Perhaps you've heard by now of the Crown Crust pizza , the pizza-cheeseburger hybrid recently unveiled by some of Pizza Hut's international franchisees.
What Pizza Hut's Crown Crust Pizza Says About Global Fast Food Marketing : The Salt
The U.S.D.A. has introduced new nutrition labeling. June 11, 2012 | Updated
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It may look nothing more than an oddly shaped greenhouse, but the 'Globe (hedron)' is a concept for a rooftop aquaponics dome that Urban Farmers hopes will help address global food security