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1.25 Billion Chicken Wings? The Vast Amounts of Crappy Food Americans Consume on Super Bowl Sunday
By Tara Lohan / AlterNet
We've somehow turned watching a sport into eating (and drinking) like it's a sport.
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The Scary Danger of Meat (Even For Those Who Don't Eat It)
By Martha Rosenberg
AlterNet
The Truth Behind Why High Calorie Chef Paula Deen Is Pushing Diabetes Drug
By Brad Jacobson
AlterNet
Paula Deen: Populist Cook or Diabetic Scam Artist?
By Lynn Parramore
AlterNet
While Republicans Play Politics Over Food Stamps, New Film Focuses on Hunger in America
By Amy Goodman, Raj Patel
Democracy Now!


Sugar High: The Dark History and Nasty Methods Used to Feed Our Sweet Tooth
By Jill Richardson / AlterNet
How Activists Can 'Occupy' Their Cities with New Legal Structures That Empower Communities Over Corporations
By Jeff Reifman, Thomas Linzey / YES! Magazine
Hope for Salmon as Dams Come Down
By Jennifer Kaye / YES! Magazine
Why You Can Be Branded a Terrorist for Fighting Animal Abuse
By Rania Khalek / AlterNet
Why You May Be Drinking Soda That Contains a Dangerous Flame Retardant Banned in Europe and Japan
By Brett Israel / Environmental Health News

We've Lost Nearly All of Our Wild Foods -- What Happened? And What Are We Missing?
By Jill Richardson / AlterNet
More Nature, More Sex, More Sleep: 8 New Year's Resolutions That Will Actually Make You Happy and Healthy
By Alison Pace / AlterNet
Goodbye 'Shop Til You Drop' Mentality: Renegade Band of Economists Call for 'Degrowth' Economy
By Christine MacDonald / AlterNet
The Wrong Kind of Fat Tax: Forget Taxing Soda to Curb Obesity, Tax Producers of Sugar and Sweetners
By Emily Badger / Miller-McCune.com
Why Is the FDA Saying It's OK to Eat Seafood 10,000 Times Over the Safe Limit for Dangerous Carcinogens?
By Brad Jacobson / AlterNet
The Best, Worst and Most Overlooked Food Stories of 2011
By Ari LeVaux / AlterNet
Family Farmers Are the 99 Percent: How Occupy Wall Street Is Bridging the Rural/Urban Divide
By Dave Murphy / AlterNet

The Health of Children and Consumers Is Threatened by Conservative Push for Corporate Speech Rights
By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet
Welcome to Peak Water: Scientists Say Time Is up to Prepare for Melting Glaciers
By Douglas Fischer / Daily Climate
Regulators Crack Down on Micro-Dairies, But Small Farmers Fight Back With Local Food Sovereignty Ordinances
By Rebekah Wilce / AlterNet
Why Is a Farmer Who Sells Extra Milk From His One Cow to Neighbors Being Sued By the State of Maine?
By Rebekah Wilce / AlterNet
Bugs and Krill, the Other White Meats: Time to Start Eating at the Bottom of the Food Chain
By Anneli Rufus / AlterNet
10 Most Horrifically Unhealthy Cereals
By Kiera Butler / Mother Jones
Occupy Your Food Supply: Radical Farmer's March Aims to Bridge Urban-Rural Divide, Focus in on "Food Justice"
By Anna Lekas Miller / AlterNet

Arsenic in Your Apple Juice? How a Dangerous Poison Found Its Way Into Fruit Juice
By Tom Philpott / Mother Jones Online
Can Ocean Farms Actually Be More Sustainable Than Even the Most Environmentally Sensitive Traditional Farms?
By Brendan Smith / AlterNet
Globalization Leads to Struggle for Food that Imperils Filipino Poor
By Erika Eichelberger / AlterNet
Who Will Be the Biggest Loser if We Don't Fix the Farm Bill?
By Rich Bindell / Food & Water Watch
4 Absurd, Damaging Right-Wing Lies About Food Stamps
By Jake Blumgart / AlterNet
What Drugs Was Your Thanksgiving Turkey On?
By Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet

5 Ridiculous Myths People Use to Trash Local Food -- And Why They're Wrong
By Jill Richardson / AlterNet
Why the Most Important Fish We Need to Save Is One You've Never Heard Of
By Jill Richardson / AlterNet
When It Comes to the Environment, Are We the 99 Percent or the 1 Percent?
By Christine MacDonald / AlterNet
Are Farm Subsidies Really to Blame for Obesity?
By Wenonah Hauter, Carmen Rita Nevarez / Other Words
Why Is the State Department Using Our Money to Pimp for Monsanto?
By Jill Richardson / AlterNet
7 Billion and Counting: Welcome to a Planet With Population Overload and Resources in Crisis [With Photos From National Geographic]
By Scott Thill / AlterNet

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