·      Study: Global Food: Waste Not, Want Not http://bit.ly/VR1dWu

o   Rich Countries Trash Up To Half Of All Food: Report http://huff.to/13lrQY6

o   The Independent: Letters: End the scandal of edible food going to waste http://ind.pn/ZT48Uk

o   Dumpster Diver TV: Austrians Cook Up Food Waste Reality Show http://n.pr/ULzlVb

o   Fine dining’s trash-to-table movement http://wapo.st/13eWsM0

·      Food produced globally is enough to feed almost double the existing population http://bit.ly/XtkMp6

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·      Food as Weapon http://bit.ly/Y0ZNu4

Dr. Vandana Shiva Brings Earth Democracy to Hawai’i

·      Peasant Leaders Stage Hunger Strike Against Genetically Modified Corn http://bit.ly/Wgepa4

Planting of GM corn would be ‘coup de grace to food sovereignty for the Mexican people.’

·      McDonald’s Sustainable Fish:...

·      Force-fed: How corporate sponsorship poisons nation’s top group of nutritionists http://bit.ly/T0Lt5I

·      This 15-year-old helped convince PepsiCo to stop putting flame retardant in chemical in Gatorade http://bit.ly/XN2X2M

Now can we get the stuff banned and off the GRAS list?

·      26 States to Consider Toxic Chemicals Legislation in 2013 http://bit.ly/145p8r0

Despite intense industry opposition and Congressional inaction, state governments continue to defend the vulnerable...

·      India’s rice revolution http://bit.ly/Yo0Nbq

In a village in India’s poorest state, Bihar, farmers are growing world record amounts of rice (22.4 tonnes per hectare)  – with no GM, and no herbicide. Is this one solution to world food shortages?

Using a system called System of Rice (or root) Intensification (SRI)

o   Miracle grow: Indian farmers smash crop yields records without GMOs http://bit.ly/15ApQgO

·      Baltimore Food Hub: $10M campus for food related businesses, job training...

·      Arizona charity’s Wal-Mart snub may have paid off http://bit.ly/VAa6SK

·      Worldwatch Institute: Climate Friendly Food Production http://goo.gl/geDED and here is the Report: Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture: Supporting Climate Friendly Food Production http://goo.gl/sGm53

·      What does obesity have to do with climate change? Plenty, say some scientists http://bit.ly/Uiqo2A

o   Obesity in Young Is Seen as Falling in Several Cities http://nyti.ms/Xd697M

·      Vandana Shiva:...

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·      Cornstalks Everywhere But Nothing Else, Not Even A Bee http://goo.gl/zcE1S

·      Europe Milk Quota Protests: Police Sprayed with Thousands of Liters of Fresh Milk http://goo.gl/UDg9S

o   Milky Way: Infuriated farmers spray milk on riot police in Brussels http://goo.gl/h4Z31

Thousands of dairy farmers on Monday protested low prices for their

product, choking traffic in the Belgian capital with their tractors and spraying European Union headquarters and police with...

·      Backyard (San Joaquin Valley, California) citrus harvest helps feed those in need http://goo.gl/lCMIG

·      Fish Fraud Criticized By Sen. Barbara Boxer, 500 Restaurateurs http://goo.gl/d0QbH

·      The History of Pink Slime: The Sliming http://goo.gl/LNWCk

How processed beef trimmings got rebranded, again and again and again…

·      Truck Driver Steal and Sells 1,500 Cases of Beer http://goo.gl/W8hud

·      McDonald’s To Sell Ground Coffee In Canada http://goo.gl/PrjOC

·      In Dairy Industry...

·      North Dakota Voters Add Farmer Protection to Constitution http://goo.gl/7aaTo

·      To Get Around Tax Hike, Spanish Theater Sells Carrots Not Tickets http://goo.gl/mJacc

·      3 Inspiring Examples of Urban Agriculture http://goo.gl/fcDwX

Havana, Cuba; Atlanta, Georgia; Oakland, California

·      Marion Nestle: Food Politics: The election is over (whew): what’s next? http://goo.gl/Vt7ca

o   Kids Don’t Need Kids Food http://goo.gl/gIFJk

·      School Lunches From Around the World http://goo.gl/9...

·      Declaration On Seed Freedom http://goo.gl/NG9dj

·      After Graduating From College, It’s Time to Plow, Plant and Harvest http://goo.gl/N5cvj

·      That Flawed Stanford Study http://goo.gl/fgMrX

·      Land reform protests heat up in Paraguay http://goo.gl/c6ttj

·      Man eaten by hogs at Oregon farm http://goo.gl/TKgdX

·      US farmers turn to gummy worms, fruit loops to feed cows after corn shortage http://goo.gl/jhTqz

·      For Local Fisheries, a Line of Hope http://goo.gl/lEJPi

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·      Guerrilla Grafters Secretly Graft Fruit-Bearing Branches onto San Francisco Trees http://goo.gl/JdiHn

This has been a movement in San Francisco for several years, I posted about it when they first started…

·      Australia Passes Super Trawler Ban http://goo.gl/AVXny

·      Reuters: Mystery of the disappearing bees: Solved! http://goo.gl/cASCP

·      The world’s largest vertical garden is as long as a city block (Italy) http://goo.gl/0GfX6

·      FAO: Global status of human-induced soil...