Polis’ “MeatOut” edict draws ire of Nebraska governor, some in Colorado
By Marie Fazio
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Depending on which side of the Colorado-Nebraska state line you’re on, the meat-related significance of March 20 varies drastically.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis recently declared...
By Candice Choi
The Associated Press
NEW YORK » Instead of finishing your leftovers, you let them go bad and buy takeout.
It’s a familiar routine for many — and indicative of habits that contribute to a global food waste problem that a new United Nations report says needs to be better m...
By Ernesto Londoño
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RIO DE JANEIRO » After years of whipping up large vegan meals for an ashram in the mountains outside Rio de Janeiro, Luiza de Marilac Tavares found her life upended and herself out of a job when the pandemic forced the center to shut down.
She started c...
By Zachary Small © The New York Times The installation of steak grown from human cells at the Design Museum in London was intended to criticize the meat industry’s rising use of living cells from animals. It ended up triggering a roiling debate about bioethics and the pitfalls of artistic critique.
...
Drought, pandemic and neglect create a disaster in southern Madagascar
By Laetitia Bezain
The Associated Press
ANKILIMAROVAHATSY, MADAGASCAR » “It’s the hunger that killed him,” the grieving mother said.
In this village in Madagascar’s extreme south, the 31-year-old Lasinatry lost her 3year-old ...
Eat Just’s “cultured chicken” to be an ingredient in nuggets
By Mike Ives
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HONG KONG » First, meat came from farms and forests. Then, it came from factories. More recently, entrepreneurs have been making it from plants.
Some have wondered whether there’s a more ...
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By Bella Huang and Amy Qin
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Chinese regulators are calling out live-streamers who binge-eat for promoting excessive consumption. A school said it would bar students from applying for scholarships if their daily left...
The Associated Press, The Denver Post eEdition, July 6, 2020 NAIROBI, KENYA»The crunch of young locusts comes with nearly every step. The worst outbreak of the voracious insects in Kenya in 70 years is far from over, and their newest generation is now finding its wings for proper flight. The li...
Shared from the 5/14/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Richard C. Paddock and Dera Menra Sijabat
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BANGKOK»Six days a week, the butchers of Tomohon gather at Indonesia’s most notorious market and cut up bats, rats, snakes and lizards that were taken from the wilds of Sul...
Good Afternoon,
On behalf of our colleagues a the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) we would like to share the below message.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic:
Purchase and Distribution of Food Eligible for Public Assistance
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, it may be n...
Meat companies are now asking: Eat your veggies By Dee-Ann Durbin Shared by The Denver Post. The Associated Press
Meat companies are making it easier for you to eat your vegetables by blending them into burgers, meatballs and sausages.
Applegate is introducing a line of meat-and-veggie b...
Shared from the 12/29/2019 The Denver Post eEdition By Motoko Rich and Makiko Inoue © The New York Times Co.
IWAKI, JAPAN»The overpowering earthquake and tsunami that ripped through northern Japan in March 2011 took so much from Tatsuo Niitsuma, a commercial fisherman in this coastal c...
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By Agnieszka De Sousa Bloomberg News
The world loses about $400 billion of food before it even gets delivered to stores, according to the United Nations.
Some 14% of all food produced is lost annually, with central and southern A...
Beyond Meat has another high-profile fast-food partner — KFC — to help the faux meat maker tackle a plant-based substitute for a different major protein source: chicken.
KFC, owned by Yum! Brands Inc., will test plant-based nuggets and boneless wings at one of its Atlanta restaurants on Tuesday. Th...
By Kirsten Grieshaber
The Associated Press
Franziska Lienert, a spokeswoman for the company that runs the “To Good To Go” app, uses a tablet to find a restaurant participating with the food-sharing community.
ABERLIN» fter a long day at work, Annekathrin Fiesinger is too tired to consider making ...
By DAVID VON DREHLE | The Washington Post
April 7, 2019 at 7:06 pm
Missouri Farm Bureau members were likely startled by the recent “Commentary” in their email queues. The farm bureau’s Eric Bohl reported on his visit to a St. Louis-area Burger King, where the fast food giant is testing a v...
The Denver Post, 11-7-18 Hey, take a gander at your kitchen wastebasket and see all the
money in there.
Statistics come in from several directions to show how much food we regularly waste
(closer-to-the-truth verbs would be “toss” or “throw out”).
In 2015, the last year for which it offe...
Shared from the 2018-07-08 The Denver Post eEdition The U.S. diet is a climate disaster
A new study suggests four easy fixes By Caitlin Dewey
The Washington Post If your household is anything like the American average, your diet generates lots of greenhouse gas emissions: roughly th...
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ES MOINES, IOWA » New rules, decades in the making, that would have required organic meat and egg producers to abide by stricter animal welfare standards were withdrawn by the federal government on Monday, frustrating organic farmers and anim...
At many Chinese restaurants in the United States, there's a special dish called shark fin soup. It's expensive — a delicacy and status symbol in Chinese culture that's served during banquets.
The soup is a hotly debated item in both the scientific and political communities, and it's illegal in 12 s...
