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    Kansas Farmer Luke Ulrich faces long hours and low pay in part because of Trump's trade policies, but he still backs Trump.
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    Farmers Sticking By Trump Even As Trade Wars Bite

    Oct 10, 2019
    Trump's trade wars and ethanol policy hurt farmers, but polls show his support among them remains strong, and may be growing as the impeachment query moves forward.
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    More cities are passing legislation to ban the construction of drive-through windows in an attempt to curb emissions, reduce litter and improve pedestrian safety. The bans are also sometimes touted as a way to help fight obesity, but past studies suggest
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    Why U.S. Cities Are Banning New Fast-Food Drive-Throughs

    Oct 10, 2019
    Most of the bans aim to curb emissions and protect pedestrians. The bans are also sometimes touted as a way to help fight obesity, but past studies suggest they don't have that effect.
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    Depression symptoms dropped significantly in a group of young adults who ate a Mediterranean-style diet for three weeks. It's the latest study to show that food can influence mental health.
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    Changing Your Diet Can Help Tamp Down Depression, Boost Mood

    Oct 09, 2019
    Depression symptoms dropped significantly in a group of young adults who ate a Mediterranean-style diet for three weeks. It's the latest study to show that food can influence mental health.
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    A new rule proposed by the Labor Department would allow employers to require waitstaff and others to share their tips with kitchen staff. But labor advocates say it could allow bosses to take advantage of their workers.
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    Restaurants Would Get More Flexibility With Workers' Tips Under Proposed Rule

    Oct 07, 2019
    The rule would allow employers to require waitstaff and others to share their tips with kitchen staff. But labor advocates say it could allow bosses to take advantage of their workers.
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    When Efforts To Eat 'Clean' Become An Unhealthy Obsession

    Oct 07, 2019
    Whether it's gluten or dairy, many people avoid certain types of foods these days. Sometimes food avoidance can take over people's lives and veer into an eating disorder.
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    A worker at a bog owned by Massachusetts-based Decas Cranberry Products, Inc., removes vines from a batch of just-harvested berries.
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    How The Trade War Crushed A Growing Chinese Market For U.S. Cranberries

    Oct 06, 2019
    The U.S. has spent millions to get China to embrace the unknown fruit — and it did. Now, tariffs have driven China to buy its cranberries from other countries, leaving U.S. farmers in the lurch.
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    A new study finds that tuna harvests, including of some species considered "vulnerable," have increased by an astonishing 1,000% in the last 60 years — a rate that some scientists warn is unsustainable.
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    We're Pulling Tuna Out Of The Ocean At Unprecedented — And Unsustainable — Rates

    Oct 04, 2019
    A new study finds that tuna harvests, including of some species considered "vulnerable," have increased by an astonishing 1,000% in the last 60 years — a rate some scientists warn is unsustainable.
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    A pile of rough-hewn pink Himalayan salt cubes.
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    Pakistan Wants You To Know: Most Pink Himalayan Salt Doesn't Come From India

    Oct 03, 2019
    The salt has become trendy in the U.S. But Pakistan hasn't benefited much economically from that popularity. Now, Pakistan's government wants to trademark the salt and cash in.
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    The long arms of pivot irrigation rigs deliver water <a href="https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=766510790&live=1">from the Ogallala Aquifer</a> to circular fields of corn in northwestern Kansas. A new study suggests many of the world'
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    Irrigation For Farming Could Leave Many Of The World's Streams And Rivers Dry

    Oct 02, 2019
    A new study shows many of the world's streams and rivers could dry up because people are draining underground aquifers that sustain streams through dry periods. Climate change won't help matters.
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    A new set of analyses contradict the current dietary recommendations to limit red and processed meats.
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    No Need To Cut Back On Red Meat? Controversial New 'Guidelines' Lead To Outrage

    Sep 30, 2019
    A prominent medical journal has published a new recommendation from a group of scientists concluding there's no need to cut back on red and processed meats. This contradicts current guidelines.
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    U.S. adults put on about a pound a year on average. But people who had a regular nut-snacking habit put on less weight and had a lower risk of becoming obese over time, a new study finds.
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    Just A Handful Of Nuts May Help Keep Us From Packing On The Pounds As We Age

    Sep 30, 2019
    U.S. adults put on about a pound a year on average. But people who had a regular nut-snacking habit put on less weight and had a lower risk of becoming obese over time, a new study finds.
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    A Swedish government program called the Edible Country recruited Michelin-starred chefs to create recipes that use ingredients that can be<strong> </strong>foraged from the areas around 13 picnic tables scattered across the countryside. Diners book a tab
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    Foraging Is Part Of Swedish Identity; Now Its Countryside Is The Wildest Restaurant

    Sep 26, 2019
    The government recruited Michelin-starred chefs to craft recipes from ingredients that can be foraged at sites across the Swedish countryside. Diners book a table, show up and hunt for their own food.
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    A selection of small feeding vessels dating back to the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age. Researchers now say vessels like these were used as prehistoric baby bottles.
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    Prehistoric Babies Drank Animal Milk From Bottles

    Sep 25, 2019
    The remnants of ruminant milk were found in tiny vessels buried with infants thousands of years ago. Scientists say the ancient baby bottles were sometimes shaped like "mythical animals."
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    An engraving dating from the 19th century depicts passenger pigeons, once one of the most common birds in North America but now extinct because of overhunting and deforestation.
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    When We Love Our Food So Much That It Goes Extinct

    Sep 23, 2019
    A new book explores how overhunting and habitat destruction have left us with only a fraction of the foods that existed a century ago, and the changes that are needed to preserve our culinary variety.
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    A diver maintains an open-water cage where tuna are being farmed in Izmir, Turkey. In the U.S., federally controlled ocean waters have been off limits to aquaculture, curbing the industry's growth. But the tide may be turning.
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    The Battle Over Fish Farming In The Open Ocean Heats Up, As EPA Permit Looms

    Sep 18, 2019
    Advocates say farmed seafood is more sustainable than wild-caught. Critics say these farms pollute surrounding waters. Federal waters have been off-limits to aquaculture, but that may soon change.
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    An employee handles sides of pork on a conveyor at a Smithfield Foods Inc. pork processing facility in Milan, Mo.
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    USDA Offers Pork Companies A New Inspection Plan, Despite Opposition

    Sep 17, 2019
    Under new federal rules, pork companies can hire workers to do some tasks currently reserved for federal inspectors in hog slaughterhouses. Critics say it's a move toward privatization.
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    Illustration from a 19th-century edition of <em>Robinson Crusoe</em>, a novel by Daniel Defoe first published in 1719. It relates the story of Robinson Crusoe, stranded on an island for 28 years and his subsequent fight for survival. Out of desperation,
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    The Spirit Of Innovation Still Thrives In The Good Old Kitchen Hack

    Sep 17, 2019
    What would Robinson Crusoe have done with a watermelon cuber? His spirit of ingenuity lives on in the kitchen, as inventive cooks still think beyond the norm of conventional kitchen tools.
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    An adult spotted lanternfly searches for tasty grapevines at Vynecrest Vineyards and Winery, near Allentown, Pa.
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    Vineyards Facing An Insect Invasion May Turn To Aliens For Help

    Sep 16, 2019
    A stowaway from China, the spotted lanternfly, is eating its way across Pennsylvania, killing trees and grapevines. Scientists are considering importing the bug's natural enemies from back home.
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    Chef Omari McQueen stands in the doorway of his vegan Caribbean pop-up restaurant Dipalicious.
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    This Rising Star Chef Is Black, Vegan — And Only 11 Years Old

    Sep 10, 2019
    U.K. tween Omari McQueen began to cook at age 7, when his mother experienced paralyzing migraines. It wasn't long before he appeared on TV, opened a trendy food hall booth and sat on an expert panel.
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    Since purple sea urchins have eaten up their food supply, many of them are empty inside.
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    Saving California's Kelp Forest May Depend On Eating Purple Sea Urchins

    Sep 09, 2019
    Purple sea urchins are devouring the kelp forest off California's coast. To help the forest survive, researchers are trying to make these urchins a delicacy on menus at seafood restaurants.
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    James Toner feeds cows at his family's dairy farm in Northern Ireland's County Armagh. Thirty-five percent of Northern Irish milk is sold to Ireland. Northern Irish farmers who have built lucrative cross-border trade with the Irish Republic are especiall
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    How A No-Deal Brexit Could Destroy The Irish Dairy Industry — And Threaten Peace

    Sep 05, 2019
    The lack of a border has contributed to a booming dairy business between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland – the types of dealings experts say helped make peace between the two a reality.
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    A food pantry client adds a carton of yogurt to her cart at the food pantry at Jewish Family Services in Denver, Colo.
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    Fewer U.S. Households Are Going Hungry. But Cuts In Food Aid Loom

    Sep 04, 2019
    Some 14 million U.S. households are struggling to get enough to eat — a return to pre-recession levels. The USDA data comes as the Trump administration proposes tightening eligibility for food aid.
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    Researchers in the U.K. say a teen has suffered vision loss after years of eating a highly limited diet consisting of snacking on Pringles potato chips, as well as French fries, white bread and some processed pork products.
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    Blind From A Bad Diet? Teen Who Ate Mostly Potato Chips And Fries Lost His Sight

    Sep 03, 2019
    A poor diet can lead to vision loss, experts say. For a teen, it's certainly rare, but a new case study documents blindness in a boy who ate lots of chips, white bread and bits of processed meat.
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    Hector Osorno is the Kraft Heinz Ketchup Master, whose job it is to make sure around 70% of the ketchup sold in America tastes the way it should.
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    Meet The Man Who Guards America's Ketchup

    Sep 02, 2019
    Deep inside the company that dominates the business of ketchup-making, there's a man who makes sure that every squeeze of this all-American condiment comes out just right. He's the Ketchup Master.
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    Jasmine Cho's cookie portrait of Afong Moy, who is often cited as the first Chinese woman to step foot in the United States. Beginning in the 1830s, Moy was put on display before crowds as a curiosity.
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    Cookie Artist Teaches Edible Lessons In Asian-American History

    Aug 31, 2019
    Jasmine Cho makes cookie portraits of people like Takao Ozawa, who was denied U.S. citizenship on the basis of race in a landmark case. Her goal: to make social justice lessons more palatable.

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