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Inside Florida’s Ban on Lab-Grown Meat

Modern Farmer

A long list of other states, meanwhile, have banned the word “meat” from cultivated meat packaging. Italy became the first country to criminalize cultivated meat in 2023, as well as banning the use of words like burger and sausage on packaging for alternative proteins. In actuality, cultivated meat is not that mysterious.

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Ask a Scientist: Stopping Big Ag from Hijacking US Farm and Food Policy

The Equation

Their suggested marker bills included provisions that would broaden access to US farm loans for historically underserved borrowers, help farmers address the climate crisis, better protect food and farm workers, halt industrial agriculture mergers by strengthening relevant antitrust laws, and expand SNAP benefits and government nutrition programs.

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The U.S.-Mexico tortilla war

Food Environment and Reporting Network

The Aztec believed the first man resulted from Quetzalcóatl’s gifting of cultivated corn; in the Maya story, the first spiritually fit humans are crafted from maize seeds after failed attempts to use wood and mud. Much of this section is drawn from a public database of academic research that Mexico’s science agency has maintained since 2020.

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Remembering Joan Gussow

Civil Eats

Understanding that nutrition is much more than just nutrientsthat [it] is agriculture, politics, the environment, and moreshaped my thinking about food and the work I do to this day. I consider myself a product of the big, robust garden you cultivated. She was a happy and inspiring warrior against the forces of industrial agriculture.

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Our Summer 2024 Food and Farming Book Guide

Civil Eats

The book details her journey to connect head (Western science) with heart (Indigenous worldview)—the latter of which she says is the “missing puzzle piece” in our efforts to re-establish planetary health amid an ongoing climate crisis. Could cultivating it offer me an opportunity to make up for all that had not passed down to me?”

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Op-ed: Egg Prices Are Soaring. Are Backyard Chickens the Answer?

Civil Eats

What we do know is that the virus is now endemic in some wild birds, like wild ducks that move through our country, says Carol Cardona, a professor of veterinary and biomedical sciences at University of Minnesota. We know that is partially why we keep getting these seasonal outbreaks.

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A palm oil company, a group of U.S. venture capitalists, and the destruction of Peru’s rainforest

Food Environment and Reporting Network

At least 28 species were new to science. ” As Spoor pointed out, most deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon today comes at the hands of small-scale farmers , and he wanted to convince me that industrial agriculture, which had deepened climate impacts elsewhere, could achieve the opposite here. ” Doldourov asked.