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The GOOD Fair Food Toolkit

Want to help fix America's flawed food system? Here are ideas you can implement at the personal, local, and national levels.

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Chicken Eat Arsenic, You Eat Chicken: How to Stop Big Ag's Poisoned Poultry

Poultry producers feed their birds arsenic to make chicken flesh a more appetizing shade of pink. Maryland lawmakers are fighting back.

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How Fingerprinting Food Stamp Recipients Hurts Everyone

New York will stop fingerprinting its food stamp recipients. That's good for the hungry—and the economy.

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Could Superweeds Mean the End of Genetically Engineered Crops?

Superweeds could be the final nudge needed to prompt an about-face on America’s acceptance of GE foods.

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Beyond the Food Desert: Why We Can't Get Healthy Foods in Poor Communities

Two new studies challenge the existence of "food deserts"—but the link between poverty and obesity runs deeper.

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Cheap Shrimp, Funded by Human Trafficking and Environmental Destruction

Hidden costs lurk in those discounted bags of shrimp.

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How Consumers Are Fighting Genetically Engineered Food—And Winning

Four recent consumer wins that have put serious dents in GE foods’ reign

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This Is Your Chicken on Drugs: Count the Antibiotics in Your Nuggets

Scientists have found traces of banned antibiotics, arsenic, and seven other household medications from Tylenol to Prozac in factory-farmed poultry.

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Let's Make Sustainable Food Less Elitist

Sustainable food initiatives don't serve everyday Americans. Here's how to change that.

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Dead Meat: How 'Pink Slime' Can Start a Food Industry Revolution

Factory food doesn’t stand a chance against consumers wielding their forks—and their wallets—for good.

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Gag Order: Why States Are Banning Factory-Farm Whistleblowers

Lawmakers wanted to crack down on the folks who hurt their bottom line: animal welfare advocates.

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I Am the Lorax, I Speak for Rainbow Sprinkle Pancakes and Mazda SUVs

Universal Pictures—along with Dr. Seuss Enterprises and Random House—have been pushing the new Lorax film through a cornucopia of corporate tie-ins.

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Pig Love: How the Fast-Food Industry Is Making Pork More Humane

Mistreated porkers are increasingly finding some unusual allies—fast-food restaurants.

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'All-Natural'? How to Guard Against 3 Misleading Food Labels

How to read past the labels in the grocery store.

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The Invasivore Movement: 4 Invasive Species That Taste Great

The most effective method for dealing with the peskiest of invasive species: Turn them into dinner.

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Why the U.S. Government Won't Protect Us From Toxic Chemicals In Our Food Supply

Three decades later, Americans are still waiting for the EPA to fulfill its promise on examining dioxins in our food supply.