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Relinquishment Can Be Fun! Redefining the Pursuit of Happiness to Create a Greener World

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Eating like this every day wouldn't be very good for the environment -- and it wouldn't be much of a treat either. Photo by Jennifer Hattam.

Before I moved to Istanbul, I always thought of eating seasonally as a great idea in theory, but kind of a chore in practice.

You Art What You Eat: LA Art Museum Collaborates with Food Collective

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Edible Art: Tomato Hootenanny at LA County Museum of Art. Image courtesy of Fallen Fruit

Yesterday I adopted a Zebra Heart tomato seedling at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's "Tomato Hootenanny," one of several seasonal events the museum is mounting all year in collaboration with the art collective, Fallen Fruit.

With the Wheel of Nutrition, Even Your Dinner Plate is a Nag

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HAF

We have got to the point where restaurants have to post the nutritional content of the food that they serve, but really, is having your dinner plate tell you what to eat a step too far?

Taste Testing School Lunches

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Image credit: Mrs. Q/Grist

The brave employees of the country's school cafeterias are tasked with solving a mind-bogglingly difficult problem: creating a healthy, delicious, lunch that costs less than 90 cents per meal.

10 Underestimated Spring Fruits and Vegetables to Sink Your Teeth in Now

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Photo via Jengod @ Flickr

If you've had just about all you can stand of canned fruits, frozen vegetables, and cold-weather comfort food, rejoice: Spring foods are here!

Sales of Organic Fresh Food Falling in the UK

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Image from Soil Association

Sales of organic fruits, vegetables, and meat are plummeting in the UK. In the past year they have fallen by 12.9% in all as cost-conscious shoppers watched their pennies. The independent sector has been hardest hit with farm shops and health food outlets' sales dropping by 17.7%.

Super Weeds, Bees, and Diabetes: 7 Food Safety Predictions

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Happy as a pigweed in GMOs. Appropriately named superweed takes over a soybean field. Photo by Pawpaw67 via Flickr

The Organic Center, a research institute focused on the science of organic food and farming, recently revealed concerns for the state of the food industry and agriculture.