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The Inconvenient Truth About Cheap Food and Obesity: It's Not Farm Subsidies

Stop blaming farm subsides for making unhealthy food cheap and causing the sky-rocketing obesity rates.

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Since 1995, GOP Congresspeople Have Received More Than $5 Million in Farm Subsidies

Democrats have received less than a tenth of that. But the debate over farm subsidies is complicated.

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Organizations are Awesome: On College Campuses, CoFed Replaces Fast Food with Good Food

Research shows that fast food can cause cognitive difficulties that result in lower test scores. So why are college campuses serving it? Enter CoFed.

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Your Nuts Are Making California a Squalid "Bee Bordello"

How our appetite for industrial-farmed almonds creates an orgy of sickly, exhausted bees. And why that's a really bad thing

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Modernist Cuisine, Michael Pollan, and MRIs Dietary Supplements: Monday, February 21

The edible mysteries of hot soup, shiitake dermatitis, and MRI wine scanners in today's daily roundup of what we're reading at GOOD Food HQ. Enjoy!

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The Food Gods Speak: Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser Dish About Walmart, National Security, and Chicken Nuggets

When Pollan last ate a chicken nugget, whether Schlosser thinks that Walmart's new healthy food initiatives are for real, and what you and I can do.

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Food for Thinkers: Online Advertising, or Where Toaster Strudels and Chez Panisse Meet

Kristen Taylor examines the incongruous side dishes of corporate copywriting that adorn most food blogs.

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The Invasive Species Diet

The New York Times' reports on the latest food movement in the making: behold the Invasivores.

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Year in Review 2010: The Year in Food Stories

Ten food stories you should read this year (or next year).

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Paperclips and Samosas: a Q&A with Paola Antonelli on the Design of Food

GOOD asks the Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City what design can do for food.

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Healthy Eating 101 With CoFed

CoFed creates sustainable, student-run cafes & food stores at college campuses as an alternative to the typical fast food options offered.

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Do the Math, Eat More Vegetables

When you crunch the numbers, a plant-based diet always wins. Here's more proof.

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Backyard Bunnies Are the New Urban Chickens

Why rabbit is the most sustainable meat for the city farmer. (Plus: How to cook it, and how to raise your own.) By now we...

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The Decade in Food

Ten years of organic, local, and a lot of unsavory processed food. This decade has changed our relationship with food. Food went from a fringe...