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A Legal Twist In The Effort To Ban Cameras From Livestock Plants By Alastair Bland (NPR)
A Nation Of Meat Eaters: See How It All Adds Up By Eliza Barclay (NPR)
Agricultural Output Climbed in 2013, Recovering From Drought By Floyd Norris (The New York Times)
Almonds are out. Dairy is a disaster. So what milk should we drink? By Annette McGivney (The Guardian)
Americans waste up to 40 percent of the food they produce By Megan Thompson and Melanie Saltzman (PBS NewsHour)
Back to the land: are young farmers the new starving artists? By Lucia Graves (The Guardian)
Bad Diets Are Responsible For More Deaths Than Smoking, Global Study Finds By Allison Aubrey (NPR)
Can The Meat Industry Help Protect Wildlife? Some Say Yes By Eliza Barclay (NPR)
Center for Labor Research and Education (UC Berkeley)
Chef Knows The Cows That Go Into 'The Truth' By Marie Cusick (NPR)
Consumers Contribute To Retail Food Waste By Kristofor Husted (NPR)
Did Tyson Ban Doping Cows With Zilmax To Boost Foreign Sales? By Peggy Lowe (NPR)
FDA Found Drugs Used In Food Animals To Be 'High Risk' By Dan Charles and Eliza Barclay (NPR)
Food Access Research Atlas (USDA)
Food for 9 Billion -- Timeline (Marketplace)
Food Giants Want 'Sustainable' Beef. But What Does That Mean? By Dan Charles (NPR)
Food Labor Research Center (UC Berkeley)
For A Healthier Planet, Eat These 50 Foods, Campaign Urges By Eleanor Beardsley (NPR)
From Pets To Plates: Why More People Are Eating Guinea Pigs By Alastair Bland (NPR)
Harvest Public Media: Cultivating Stories from the Ground Up
How America’s food giants swallowed the family farms By Chris McGreal (The Guardian)
How Do We Get To Love At "First Bite"? An Interview with author Bee Wilson. (NPR)
How School Lunch Became the Latest Political Battleground By Nicholas Confessore (The New York Times)
Illinois farmers put rare pig back on the dinner table to save it from extinction By Shahla Farzan (Harvest Public Media)
In The New Globalized Diet, Wheat, Soy And Palm Oil Rule By Dan Charles (NPR)
Industrial Meat Bad, Small Farm Good? It's Not So Simple By Eliza Barclay (NPR)
Investigating The USDA’s Silence On Climate Change (Science Friday)
Is France’s groundbreaking food-waste law working? By The PBS NewsHour (PBS)
Is Sushi ‘Healthy’? What About Granola? Where Americans and Nutritionists Disagree By Kevin Quealy and Margot Sanger-Katz (The New York Times)
Is Tyson Foods' Chicken Empire A 'Meat Racket'? By Dan Charles (NPR)
Is There Wood Pulp In That Parmesan? How Scientists Sniff Out Food Fraud By NPR Staff (NPR)
It's Not Just Salt, Sugar, Fat: Study Finds Ultra-Processed Foods Drive Weight Gain By Maria Godoy (NPR)
It Takes How Much Water to Grow an Almond?! By Alex Park and Julia Lurie (Mother Jones)
It Takes HOW Much Water to Make Greek Yogurt?! By Julia Lurie and Alex Park (Mother Jones)
'Like sending bees to war': the deadly truth behind your almond milk obsession By Annette McGivney (The Guardian)
Making Food From Flies (It's Not That Icky) By Dan Charles (NPR)
New York Times Topic: Agriculture and Farming
Preparing for Invasive Pests Before They Arrive By Stephanie Parker (Undark)
Ramen to the Rescue: How Instant Noodles Fight Global Hunger By Eliza Barclay (NPR)
Rooftop Farming is Getting Off the Ground By Eliza Barclay (NPR)
Sky-High Vegetables: Vertical Farming Sprouts In Singapore By Michaeleen Doucleff (NPR)
Students Win Seed Money To Make Flour From Insects By Rae Ellen Bichell (NPR)
Take Extinction Off Your Plate: A Project of the Center for Biological Diversity
The case for a nutrition revolution By PBS NewsHour (PBS NewsHour)
The 'Ghost Geography' Of Midwest Farmland And A Year In The Life Of A Modern American Family Farm By Grant Gerlock (Harvest Public Media)
The Joys and Ethics of Insect Eating By Barbara J. King (NPR)
There’s an Amazingly Simple, Beautiful Way to Fix Midwestern Farmlands By Tom Philpott (Mother Jones)
The Salt: What's on Your Plate - NPR Food Blog
These Pictures Might Tempt You to Eat Bugs By Maria Goody (NPR)
The System Supplying America's Chickens Pits Farmer Vs. Farmer By Dan Charles (NPR)
This Stanford Ph.D. Became A Fruit Picker To Feed California's Hungry By Sasha Khokha (NPR)
Turning Off The Spigot In Western Kansas Farmland By Dan Charles (NPR)
U.S. Research Lab Lets Livestock Suffer in Quest for Profit By Michael Moss (The New York Times)
U.S. Right to Know
Vertical 'Pinkhouses:' The Future Of Urban Farming? By Michaeleen Doucleff (NPR)
When a deep red town’s only grocery closed, city hall opened its own store. Just don’t call it ‘socialism.’ By Antonia Noori Farzan (The Washington Post)
Why Farmers Can Prevent Global Warming Just As Well As Vegetarians By Eliza Barclay (NPR)
World Resources Institute: Food
World's first lab-grown burger is eaten in London (BBC)