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Fish farming may be answer to depleted oceans

Story from Here and Now. Listen to audio above for full report.A senior EU official recently said that fish populations are so depleted that when today's children are adults, there may be no fish left...

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'Green' grocery store lets you package your own food

Story from Living on Earth. Listen to audio above for full report.A soon-to-be-opened Austin supermarket called In.gredients intends to create zero waste shopping in their store. Its concept will have...

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Salmonella outbreak leads to largest meat recall in U.S. history.

Story from The Takeaway. Listen to audio above for full report.One person has died and at least 76 are ill after being exposed to a salmonella outbreak traced back to a Cargill meat production plant in...

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More access to healthy foods for low-income Americans

Story by Jessica Ilyse Smith, Living on Earth. Listen to audio above for full report.A record number of Americans are now receiving federal food aid. Forty-six million people a month -- half are kids....

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How fast food rewires our brains

Story from Here and Now. Listen to audio above for full report.Why do McDonald's, Starbucks and other chain restaurants offer huge dollops of whipped cream to consumers at no extra cost, but at more...

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New food safety law's impact on Indian street food

Story by Elliot Hannon, PRI's The World. Listen to audio above for full report.At a small corner stall in the Old Delhi neighborhood of the Indian capital, a satellite dish sized pan sizzles with...

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Beer mystery solved: A yeast voyage and the birth of lager

Story from PRI's The World. Listen to audio for full report.First brewed in Barvaria in southern Germany, lager is a clear, cold, fermented beer that requires a specific kind of hybrid yeast -- half...

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Food art: Oreo cookie portraits and bread embroidery

Story from Here and Now. Listen to audio for full report.Intricate Victorian-style cameo portraits carved out of Oreo cream, old-fashioned hand-cross-stitched Chex cereal, and elaborate bread...

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Skyscraper greenhouses could be farms of future

Story by Living on Earth. Listen to audio above for full interview.More than half the people in the world today live in cities. True, but sad says scientist Dickson Despommier, because "In reality the...

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Ancient Incan agriculture revived due to climate change

Story from PRI's The World. Listen to audio above for full report.To get to some of Peru's most remote Andean communities, you head out over pockmarked dirt roads from a small town already 10,000 feet...

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Factory farms may be breeding drug-resistant bacteria

Story by Here and Now. Listen to audio above for full report.Federal agencies aren’t doing enough to keep an eye on the use of antibiotics on farms, according to a new report by The Government...

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How organic food saved a hard-luck, Vermont town

Story by Here and Now. Listen to audio for full report.All aspects of the organic, local and sustainable foods movements are converging on a tiny New England town.Over the last decade, Hardwick, Vt.,...

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The next trendy wine destination: Kosovo?

Story from PRI's The World. Listen to audio for full report.Kosovo's wine country, Rahovec, doesn't have much name recognition outside of the region, though it's been making wine for some 2,000...

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Dumpster diving to live off America's food waste

Story from Here and Now. Listen to audio for full report.How much food do you throw out? As a country, we waste 96 billion pounds a year and according to filmmaker Jeremy Seifert, you’d need a train...

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Cantaloupes contaminated with listeria cause 16 deaths

Story from The Takeaway. Listen to audio above for full report.As many as 72 people have fallen ill and 16 have died, after eating cantaloupes from Colorado that were contaminated with listeria, a...

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Chef describes last meals for death row

Story from To the Best of Our Knowledge. Listen to audio above for full interview.Texas has recently ended its so-called last meals for death row inmates, spurred by furor over a meal requested by...

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The Tavis Smiley Show's "Poverty in America"– Hunger

Story from The Tavis Smiley Show. Listen to audio above for full report.In its 2010 Household Food Security survey, the U.S. Department of Agriculture revealed that 49 million Americans don't have...

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Boston man launches urban composting program

Story by Living on Earth. Listen to audio above for full interview.Americans throw away 68 billion pounds of food each year, most of which winds up in landfills.Some Massachusetts residents are working...

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Teacher goes undercover, anonymously blogs about a year of eating school lunch

Story from Here & Now. Listen to the above audio for a complete report.Chicago school teacher Sarah Wu spent 2010 eating school lunch.For 162 days, the elementary school teacher's lunch consisted...

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Some Chinese buying organic to avoid food contamination -- but is it enough?

Story from PRI's The World. Listen to the above audio for a complete report.Li Lan, a 38-year-old architect in Shanghai, wants to provide safe, healthy meals for her husband and 4-year-old son.In China...

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