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It's not as obvious as it might seem. ALWAYS read the label. Delete the scoop?
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Climate change is already creating new winners among Europe's winemaking regions. (Great bubbly from Britain — who knew? Via Vitabella Luxury Wine / Twitter @Vitabellawine / Also check www.vitabella.fr Delete the scoop?
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As the public’s appetite grows for locally grown eats, so do the smart marketing campaigns designed to help local farmers, and foster more of them. Via Chana Andler Delete the scoop?
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Although many countries choose to import food right now, the model showed that there are surprisingly few that could not maintain the same diet and still be food self-sufficient. "Today, 66 countries are not able to be self-sufficient due to water and/or land constraints," said Fader. This equates to 16% of the world's population depending on food imported from other countries.
The countries with the most reliance on imports were found in North Africa, the Middle East and Central America, with over half the population depending on imported food in many of these locations. Outside those locations many countries could become food self-sufficient if they chose to. But roll the clock forward to 2050 and population pressure paints a very different picture.
Vast swathes of the global map are coloured red and orange, highlighting those countries that would have to maximize food production – by improving agricultural productivity, and expanding cropland, for example – in order to feed their population. The figures suggest that over half the world's population could depend on imported food by 2050. Via Robin Landis Delete the scoop?
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El Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM) nos da la posibilidad de contemplar la exposición titulada Arte y Gastronomía: La cocina de la pintura.
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Food art exhibit in Valencia, Spain! Delete the scoop?
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New Uses For Old Things Like Jeans, Wine Corks And Egg Cartons (PHOTOS) Delete the scoop?
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Jonell Galloway walks you through the farmers market in Switzerland: what's in season at the end of April, a slide show Delete the scoop?
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Plusieurs chefs français ont lancé le label "restaurant de qualité" pour séparer les vrais cuisiniers des simples "assembleurs". Une initiative qui laisse perplexe quant à sa nécessité dans le pays censé incarner la gastronomie. Via Fabien Lemaire, Elisabeth Paul-Takeuchi 
Charles-Louis Mazerolles's curator insight,
April 26, 6:24 AM
la Gastronomie française, mythe ou réalité? Delete the scoop?
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April 23, 2013 - Salon The biotech industry is working to prevent mandatory labeling for foods with genetically engineered contents... The biotech industry, led by Monsanto, will soon descend on the state of Washington to try its best to defeat I-522, a citizens’ ballot initiative to require mandatory labeling of foods that contain genetically engineered (GE) ingredients. Voters should prepare themselves for an onslaught of discredited talking points, nonsensical red herrings, and outright lies designed to convince voters that they shouldn’t have the right to know what’s in the food they eat http://www.salon.com/2013/04/23/monsanto_doesnt_want_you_to_know_what_youre_eating_partner/
April 26, 2013 World Environment News
READ THIS: BE WARY, VERY WARY INDEED GMO CORPORATIONS TRY END RUN AROUND PUBLIC LABELING: A SNEAKY LEGAL MOVE KNOWN AS "PRE=EMPTION" http://sco.lt/71YtAf
April 24, 2013 Center for Food Safety
April 23, 2013 Center for Food Safety
April 24, 2013 - Huffington Post Green April 24, 2013 Sustainable Business
TRYING TO HOLD BACK THE ONSLAUGHT OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS - OR AT LEAST SLAP THEM WITH A LABEL http://sco.lt/8oAG5x
BILLS WOULD REQUIRE LABELS ON GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD RECENT STATES UPDATE http://sco.lt/53rpzN
BIG PESTICIDE CORPORATE 6 UNDERMINE HAWAII'S 'RIGHT TO KNOW' LABELING http://sco.lt/8XC9BJ
THE GLOBAL CHEMICAL BIOTECH CARTEL - AN UNPRECEDENTED POWER OVER WORLD FOOD SUPPLY http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/1716244040/the-global-chemical-biotech-cartel-an-unprecedented-power-over-world-agriculture-and-human-health
>WHY IS OUR FOOD BEING MADE AND MODIFIED BY THE WORLD'S LARGEST PESTICIDE MANUFACTURER? http://gmo-awareness.com/all-about-gmos/gmo-defined/
OBAMA QUIETLY DE-REGULATES GMO/ GENETIC BIOTECH INDUSTRY : Fast-tracking approvals, waiving regulations ... http://sco.lt/6sEPOT
MONSANTO: A CORPORATE PROFILE From Saccharin to GE Seed - Chemicals for Food, Agriculture, War http://sco.lt/5TGVDl
WHY THE MOST POWERFUL THING IN THE WORLD IS A SEED - AND THE GLOBAL CORPORATE MONOPOLY IN SEED PATENTS http://sco.lt/5YXapV
MAJOR US FOOD RETAILERS TO SHUN GENETICALLY MODIFIED, FACTORY FARMED, ENSLAVED SEAFOOD http://sco.lt/4qgoDZ
RE-ENGINEERING, RE-PROGRAMMING AND PATENTING LIFE ITSELF. THE ETHICS AND LEGALITIES http://sco.lt/7NZvsH
HOW GMO FOODS AFFECT HEALTH - GENE ALTERED FOODS NOW LARGE PART OF AMERICAN DIET http://sco.lt/7oVxQH
30 YEARS OF GENETICALLY ENGINEERED PLANTS - CONSEQUENCES OF COMMERCIAL GMO CULTIVATION IN THE USA http://sco.lt/69Lbqz
USDA: BIOTECHNOLOGY FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQs) http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=BiotechnologyFAQs.xml&contentidonly=true
NEW CHARGES AGAINST MONSANTO'S ROUNDUP PESTICIDE/HERBICIDE - THE ULTIMATE KILLING MACHINE http://sco.lt/8iHda5
FROM 'FERTILIZER TO FORK': INDUSTRIAL FOOD ACCOUNTS FOR A QUARTER OF THE WORLD'S GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS http://sco.lt/5kCdfd
WATCH: "GENETIC ROULETTE" The Gamble of Our Lives http://youtu.be/wnlTYFKBg18
WATCH: "MONSANTO FOOD WARS: GMO SEEDS AND ANIMALS" http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3997411054/watch-monsanto-food-wars-gmo-seeds-and-animals
WATCH: A SYSTEM BASED ON PROFITS IS UNSUSTAINABLE ....Vandana Shiva on Industrial Agriculture http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/1614565249/a-system-based-on-profits-is-unsustainable-vandana-shiva-on-industrial-agriculture
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Jacqueline Silva's curator insight,
April 25, 7:19 AM
Dont want us to know they are feeding us POISON! 
Jessica Ballard's curator insight,
April 25, 10:45 AM
I deal with this daily. It is so important to know what we are eating. Clear labeling is very important, but I don't want the government regulating anything else. They keep messing enough up. I just refuse to buy something that is not clearly labeled or that causes a reaction in my family. Power of the Pocketbook, and my voice. Delete the scoop?
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Feb 26, 2013 - Common Dreams Corporations relying on cheap land and labor are ruining human lives and the natural world, says campaign The world's largest food and beverage companies may be profitable, but according to Oxfam International their practices are helping to destroy not only the natural resources that support a global food system but the lives of the people they depend on most: their employees and their customers.... In a new effort called Behind the Brand, part of their ongoing GROW campaign to fix the broken food system, Oxfam has singled out the ten largest food processing companies—Associated British Foods (ABF), Coca Cola, Danone, General Mills, Kellogg’s, Mars, Mondelez, Nestlé, Pepsico and Unilever—to make a singular statement about the failure of these behemoths to fulfill their social and environmental responsibilities. According to Oxfam, these “Big 10”—that together generate $1 billion-a-day in profit—are failing millions of people in developing countries who supply land, labor, water and commodities needed to make their products. http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/26
25 February 2013 - Oxfam International
BEHIND THE REPORT "BEHIND THE BRANDS" - A SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS HORROR STORY http://sco.lt/594zeT
March 21, 2013 - CSRWire by Franceca Rheannon
HOW THE FOOD GIANTS HOOKED US http://sco.lt/4m8ptp
HOW THE JUNK FOOD INDUSTRY HAS ENCOURAGED US TO EAT OURSELVES TO DEATH http://sco.lt/6xAPtx
FOOD AND DRINK COMPANIES UNDERMINING PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY, SAY SCIENTISTS - Feb 12, 2013 - The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/feb/12/food-drink-alcohol-health-regulation
26 March 2013 Alternet WALMART'S DEATH GRIP ON GROCERIES IS MAKING LIFE WORSE FOR MILLIONS OF PEOPLE http://www.alternet.org/food/walmarts-death-grip-groceries-making-life-worse-millions-people-hard-times-usa
PROCESSED FOODS MAKE UP 70 PERCENT OF THE US DIET- WITH ABOUT 5,000 DIFFERENT CHEMICAL ADDITIVES http://sco.lt/7FPtxZ
March 2013 AMERICAN PROCESSED FOODS - IN COLOR TO DYE FOR by Robyn O'Brien @unhealthytruthhttp://organicconnectmag.com/wp/american-processed-foods-in-colors-to-dye-for/#.UU0ZIxk0ORQ
WHY WE POISON OUR FOOD AND DR. SEUSS http://sco.lt/9AMeXZ
TOO MUCH POWER IN TOO FEW HANDS : FOOD GIANTS TAKE OVER THE INDUSTRY http://sco.lt/7d5xkP
IS FAST FOOD WITH INTEGRITY POSSIBLE? March 1, 2013 - Guardian Sustainable Business - Supply Chain Hub http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/chipotle-fast-food-integrity
Corporate Watch : Nestlé SA : UNETHICAL MARKETING OF ARTIFICIAL BABY MILK, EXPLOITING FARMERS, PROMOTION OF GMO FOOD, DUBIOUS MARKETING STRATEGIES http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/?lid=240
>> WHY IS OUR FOOD BEING MADE AND MODIFIED BY THE WORLD'S LARGEST PESTICIDE MANUFACTURERS? http://gmo-awareness.com/all-about-gmos/gmo-defined/
WARNING BELLS FROM NATURE - THE FOOD CHAIN AND AG KILLING CHEMICALS/PESTICIDES http://sco.lt/5popNp
HOW GMO FOODS AFFECT HEALTH - GENE ALTERED FOODS NOW LARGE PART OF AMERICAN DIET http://dailyhealthpost.com/how-gmo-foods-affect-health/#axzz2NCebcdtc
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE GMOs - A MOTHER'S VOICE SPEAKS OUT ON CORPORATE BETRAYAL OF TRUST - Tracy Madlener http://sco.lt/9Dv6VF
UNLEASHING GENETICALLY SALMON ONTO YOUR DINNER PLATE = NO REGULATIONS, NO OVERSIGHT - "FATALLY FLAWED" FDA ASSESSMENT http://sco.lt/8ZDraz
PATENT FOR A PIG: SCIENTISTS "IMPROVE" TRANSGENIC GMO "ENVIROPIGS" http://sco.lt/7hrnF3
THE GLOBAL CHEMICAL BIOTECH CARTEL - AN UNPRECEDENTED POWER OVER WORLD FOOD SUPPLY http://www.panna.org/issues/pesticides-profit/chemical-cartel
March 12, 2013 - Tree Hugger
A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF HOW WE DESTROY OUR ENVIRONMENT FOR CONSUMERISM AND PALM OIL ECOCIDE - http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life?q=PALM+OIL+ECOCIDE
WATCH: -------------------A VERY IMPORTANT DOCUMENTARY (1 hr) -----------
+++WATCH: TED VIDEO FORMER WALL STREET FOOD INDUSTRY ANALYST TURNED 'REAL FOOD' EVANGELIST - ROBYN O'BRIEN http://sco.lt/5zL0fR
+++WATCH +++ IN EL SALVADOR, AMERICAN JUNK FOOD CREATING CHAOS WITH HEALTH, CHILDREN AND CULTURAL NORMS - VIDEO REPORT http://sco.lt/5qSxOL
FILM: "CONSUMING KIDS: THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF CHILDHOOD - FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE" http://sco.lt/6Qs0p7
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Does New York City have backyard chickens? Thanks to an innovative company called Victory Chicken, the answer is yes—and in ever-increasing numbers. Via Organic Connections Delete the scoop?
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April 22, 2013 The Permaculture Research Institute of Australia A comparison of US Midwest non-GM with GM corn shows shockingly high levels of glyphosate as well as formaldehyde, and severely depleted of mineral nutrients in the GM corn... http://permaculturenews.org/2013/04/22/stunning-difference-of-gm-from-non-gm-corn/
April 7, 2013 Sustainable Pulse
OXFAM: WORLD'S LARGEST FOOD COMPANIES CREATING LEGACY OF DESTRUCTION http://sco.lt/6sSzK5
CONSCIOUS FOOD - VICTIMS OF BIOCULTURAL EVOLUTION OR MINDFUL FOOD AND BETTER WORLD HEALTH? http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3994750421/corporate-hijacking-of-food-and-agriculture-genetic-engineering-and-the-gmo-industry
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John Lasschuit ®™'s comment,
April 25, 4:47 AM
We need to stop GM food, stop Monsanto, Dupont, Bayer, BASF to poison our food.
CineversityTV's comment,
April 25, 7:10 AM
Hi John, the sad part is Obama signed a protection act of Monsanto a few weeks ago. Above the law, so what is your proposal?
John Lasschuit ®™'s comment,
April 25, 7:13 AM
Spread the word. Contribute to 'March against Monsanto' on May 25th, make people aware and create a movement like the Zeitgeist or Occupy Movement, with the goal to change the protection act, the codex etc and give people back their right of freedom to choose what they want to eat.
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So you’re a big Hollywood star and you have it all — heaps of money, a Beverly Hills mansion, and more Porsches than Jerry Seinfeld. What more could one want? A Ferris wheel? A helipad? Nope, a winery. Via Vitabella Luxury Wine / Twitter @Vitabellawine / Also check www.vitabella.fr Delete the scoop?
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Hugo, Jasmin, François, Kevin… Un carré de prénoms, prénoms de l’équipe de la Maison de Thé Camellia Sinensis, de l’autre côté de l’atlantique pour nous autres Français. Via Bethoux, Elisabeth Paul-Takeuchi Delete the scoop?
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Just One Cookbook shares quick and easy Japanese home cooking with step by step photos. Via Frank Kusters Delete the scoop?
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Have you ever noticed that sourdough bread takes longer to get moldy than other types of bread? Canadian scientists have discovered the reason for this phenomen (Coming to a breadbox near you? Via Living Innovative Delete the scoop?
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If you only have a regular size teapot and if you have many guests, how do you serve tea? Via Bethoux, Alexandra Verville-Paris, Frank Kusters Delete the scoop?
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Can eating a #healthy #diet actually save you money? http://t.co/oJuTf1hFDp http://t.co/jFUUZmfHgt Via leedobbins 
leedobbins's curator insight,
April 5, 9:34 AM
Eating healthy seems like it's expensive, but it can save money on your grocery bill now and in doctors bills later on in life. The key is to eat what you buy and not waste food. 
Danielle Schaeffer's curator insight,
April 9, 8:47 AM
It's not only healthier to eat food from your own garden, gardening is also good for your health too. Growing your own food can save you a lot of money and increase your healt too.
Arun Shrivastava's curator insight,
April 24, 10:23 AM
This is so true and yet people ignore this simple solution to our health problems. We are so fortunate in India that we have hundreds of varieties of grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts, roots, stems, barks, leaves...and we all use some of these in our everyday meals. And our lands can produce heaps and heaps of food and yet over 50% of us are malnourished and facing serious health problems.
Our kids have being vaccinated when there is no need for vaccination, no need for expensive modern medical care and for the rich medical insurance. We lived a very healthy life 50 years ago and if we take some hard decisions we can easily go back to the basics of good food, nutrious foods and good health.
Wanna make a start? Dump canola oil, the so-called "healthy oil"...if at all you wish to use oil, use local mustard oil, Ghee, local white butter, coconut oil, sesame seed oil....so many. From the time Lever Bros introduced DALDA to today when worst criminal food multinational corporations have entered India, they have created a health disaster.
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Twelve tips that can help reduce food waste, nourish your family with delicious food and save you money! (RT @wheatsfield: 12 tips to reduce food waste http://t.co/VHavAQBzcP Happy Earth Day! Via Living Innovative Delete the scoop?
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For those who have a preference for champagne, this is an enlightening article. Delete the scoop?
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