motor and psychosocial problems more food allergies and a higher risk of developing celiac disease But it also notes that babies in western countries who were exclusively breastfed for 6 months were apparently less likely to succumb to infections, such as pneumonia,
But breast-milk-sharing isn't encouraged by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA. The use of donor milk, especially off the internet, according to the agency this past December, poses risk for the baby.
the development of so-called next-gen biofuels made from non-food crops (or cellulosic ethanol) has fallen flat.
Actually, the agricultural materials that will go into these bottles are byproducts from its foods business,
However, about 90 percent of the world's water consumption is being tapped to produce food and energy,
Such a product allows grocers to keep track of their food and sell it before it spoils.
Entrepreneurs deliver healthy food to Indianapolis food deserts Shopping cart helps consumers make smarter food choices
New school designs learn from zoos, museums, wine and naturearchitects working in the education sector may be the zaniest innovators around.
The goal, according to the farm's website, is to improve access to very good food
to connect city people more closely to farms and food production, and to make urban farming a viable enterprise and livelihood.
and quality of life of the community, continues their description, bringing people together through green business and around good food.
reduce greenhouse gas emissions and end the use of food crops like corn for fuel.
The end goal is to improve sanitation in a world where 1. 5 million children die every year due to diarrhea caused by food
Earlier this summer, Smartplanet's Stacy Lipson reported on graphic cigarette labels released by the US Food and Drug Administration which included pictures of rotting teeth
NYC has the infrastructure to support an urban ag boom There are substantial opportunities to take advantage of underused existing refrigeration, food processing,
which are all critical to delivering food from the urban farm to the consumer. Urban farming is becoming be a legitimate business In addition to selling food directly to the public,
farmers have developed direct marketing relationships with restaurants and institutions, initiated revenue-generating education and training services,
One answer to toxic food fears in Chinathe fear among Chinese of biting into a toxic-laden morsel has created a potentially huge market for food safety products in the country.
Now, scientists at the Tianjin University of Science and Technology are working on an at home food testing indicator paper.
if their food is contaminated with pathogenic bacteria and excessive amounts of drug residue by identifying more than 60 varieties of chemicals, reported China's official Xinhua news agency.
We wanted to guarantee that our food was safe. Â Green league staff prepare produce for delivery.
Combined with rapidly rising food prices (Beijing s food price inflation was over 13 percent this September),
if more people could enjoy food as clean as this
Overlooked Los angeles through the lens of Bruce Davidsonknown for his iconic images of Brooklyn street gangs in the 50s, East 100th street in Harlem,
With a low-voltage solar-powered electric fence and no additional food or maintenance costs, the project didn't require too much investment,
The food and beverages company is pumping $30 million annually into its Mexican subsidiary in an effort to bolster the health profile of its products
The American food and beverage giant--Quaker Tropicana, Gatorade and Frito-Lay are all brands--says it's already testing the system at 22 farms in the U k. It didn't offer any further details as to how it works, however.
when it comes to food policy, thanks to a forward-thinking mayor and nonprofit organization The Food Trust,
I toured town with Food Trust staffers Yael Lehmann, Brian Lang and others. We visited corner stores in North Philadelphia that have enrolled in the Healthy Corner Store Initiative,
For more on this topic, Sustainable Cities Collective has a great interview with urban food researcher Nevin Cohen on the subject.
The Food Trust
Philadelphia's ambitious green infrastructure, clean water planthe City of Philadelphia announced that it will move forward on a plan to invest $2 billion over the next 25 years on green infrastructure to clean up the city's water.
and food products companies to apply the sensors to measuring the isotopes in foods. The intention:
and what the food itself tells you are the same thing. Iain Green, vice president of business development for Picarro, said every food gives off a unique isotope signature.
It's nature's bar code, he said. So, for example, it would be possible to distinguish corn-fed cattle from Vermont from their cousins from Texas or Idaho.
Technology for tracing food origins has been available for decades. What is different now is that it is now cost-effective enough to be used more widely in food quality control operations
or on processing plant manufacturing floors, Green said. Picarro's technology costs about $100, 000,
Picarro expects food companies to use its technology to prove the authenticity of food origins, and the company is already working with a number of the larger ones.
and consumers understand that there is more of an imperative for people to know where their food is really coming from,
This is another evolution in food tracing and sourcing verification. Related stories: PG&E first utility to embrace new gas leak detection technology From predicting weather to tracking greenhouse emissions
Some of the motorists located by police have been stranded for up to 24 hours without food or water and have walked long distances through dangerous terrain to get phone reception.
When Europe is without food, we will see how we will survive. But the way it is going,
It is called The Value of Producing Food, Energy and Ecosystem Services within an Agro-Ecosystem.
where both food crops and biofuels are produced, as evidence. The study reaches back into 1995 for its data.
and raise animals for food--chickens, bees, et cetera. Another aspect of the study is to  work on a standard lease agreement that can be used by various city departments with vacant land to make it easier to lease those spaces for community gardens.
There is a burgeoning interest in local food, and this study will help facilitate that. We're also working on a variety of other types of projects that aren't considered traditional planning work,
Is Whole Foods Market spearheading a new form of advertising? Vadan Less and Jacob Ellenberg, cofounders of Dark Rye.
 On the entire Dark Rye website, the Whole Foods logo is nowhere to be seen.
says the online magazine does not mean to hide that it published by Whole Foods Market.
the online magazine presents stories that are not necessarily about food or products, but use inspirational storytelling to bolster the cultural ideologies of Dark Rye parent brand.
What motivates Whole Foods to publish an online magazine that isn directly about food? Jacob Ellenberg:
So Whole Foods doesn want to create more of that. From what I â â¢ve heard through the business channels,
Whole Foods traditionally had very small marketing budget. While this falls under that, we â â¢re lucky to be able to produce content that relevant to people.
We want to tell the Whole Foods Market story and we believe Dark Rye is part of that.
when we come across a supplier of Whole Foods who really interesting, we â â¢ll include them.
but we will sometimes re-purpose that material and put it on another channel, for example Whole Foods Twitter Account or Whole Foods Facebook.
Whole Foods does not do traditional advertising. I shouldn say it doesn, it does a little here and there,
Whole Foods is a huge, successful company. Why is the marketing budget so small? Jacob Ellenberg:
They â â¢ve got about 137,000 members at this Point the way it works is each member can scan any product barcode they come into contact with--whether it food or from the pharmacy or hardware store.
Rob Rhinehart, creator of Soylent, on super-fast foodrob Rhinehart is a young engineer who sees food as an interruption in life.
food has apparently become a bother. Grabbing slices of pizza and fast-food burgers became a dangerous habit for Rhinehart
and after months of research, he produced a formula for liquid food that could completely supplant regular meals,
It's food, both chemically and in the traditional sense. It has all the calories and all the nutrition that the body requires.
What if we had a food pill that could take care of hunger when you didn't want to spend time preparing food.
At the time I was working on a start-up and I was very busy. I didn't have much free time and
It was frustrating to solve the problem of making food over and over again. I don't like to repeat myself.
Before I was living on foods that were calorie dense because those were easiest, a lot of pizza, cheeseburgers, and fast food.
Would you say you enjoy food? Do you like eating? Yes. I have my favorite foods, like sushi and barbecue,
and I really enjoy the whole experience of eating. But to do it three times every single day seems kind of repetitive
Food is extremely complex. It's made of thousands of different chemicals and you're testing on people who could have any manner of different lifestyles.
But no one was focusing on specific biochemical or metabolic details of consuming food. There lot of weak correlations,
Food processing has lowered significantly the cost of food and given us greater control. People are spending much less time on working on food consumption than before and
I think that's encouraging. I think people should have the option. I think in the future cooking
which they can plan a good food behavior schedule. On average, in the U s.,it takes about 90 minutes out of a person's day to prepare
Soylent is regulated as a food and not a supplement. There are products on the market that would be designed a supplement
But the design of Soylent is to act as a food. Soylent gives you all the calories that you would need in a day
Seeing how food and agriculture behavior has been changing over centuries, we're heading in the direction of not being able to provide for everybody.
Focusing on the constituents of the food, by looking at it on an elemental and chemical basis we can basically cut out these very wasteful,
As well as in the food that we eat. Roughly half the people on the planet would not be around
how school food innovations are reducing childhood obesityon a chilly November morning, the auditorium at the Philadelphia School District office was sweltering.
much of this youth summit meant to encourage students to promote healthy changes at their schools was focused on food.
and listened as administration officials gave shout outs to school-based food successes, such as a salad sale at a North Philadelphia elementary school.
Over the past several years, Philadelphia has revamped its school food offerings with striking success. Over a lunch of wraps and baked chips
school food was revamped in 2010 with the passage of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act,
New lunch standards included reducing fat and sodium content, increasing whole grain foods and doubling fruit and vegetables.
according to the U s. Census bureau, Philadelphia is the poorest big city in the United states Â--the school food movement there made strides.
where red foods like strawberries and cabbage grace the menu, and fundraisers promoting fruit salad and smoothies instead of candy and brownies.
some Iowa schools shied away from offering lunchtime salad bars because of difficulties monitoring food distribution for government reimbursement,
businesses are playing a growing role in the healthy school food movement, especially since the new standards, said Lawrence Soler, president and chief executive of the Partnership for a Healthier America, a nonprofit working with the private sector in the childhood obesity fight.
â  Soler said. â Å They â â¢re going to play a critical role in ensuring that options offered in school food are appreciated healthy
When Kristin Richmond and Kirsten Tobey of Revolution Foods set out to build a company offering delicious and nutritious school meals,
â Å we â â¢re not going to set them up for success academically. â  Revolution Foods ignored critics who said kids would never give up junk food.
and one of its most popular items is a five-ingredient hotdog made with grass-fed beef. â Å Food has to taste good in order for kids to want to eat it,
And while Tobey admitted that healthy food tends to cost more than highly-processed, preservative-packed food,
she said Revolution Foods offers meals that can be reimbursed by the federal government. Farmers have been another private sector partner in the movement to make school food healthier.
The USDA Farm to School program, which helps bring local or regional food to school cafeterias, is complementary to the new nutrition standards,
said Colleen Matts, farm to institution specialist at the Michigan State university Center for Regional Food Systems. â Å If we can introduce new and different healthy foods to kids,
â Â she said, â Å those are things that can last with them through their lifetime. â Â Before connecting them with farmers,
And while the USDA works to make local food accessible to all schools through its system,
and not a single Michigan farmer has signed up for the expensive certification process. â Å They â â¢re talking about doing the school food system differently,
â Â Matts said. â Å It been institutionalized for so many years. â Â Obstacles outside school walls might pose the biggest threat to the school food movement.
school food officials believe we â â¢re headed in the right direction. Another four years with the Obama administration--and a first lady who has prioritized children health--will help institutionalize positive changes,
Food trends can start anywhere. They go a long way toward establishing a place's image (will California ever shake its sprouts?
Hargraves reminds us that in our daily lives we encounter constant natural background radiation from sources like cosmic rays, breathing radon, ingestion of food and water,
Radiation sterilizes food. Radiation serves us broadly in the medical field, both as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool.
what we need (food, fresh water and energy). This week, the project, which is supported by fertilizer companies,
local food. Fortunately San francisco's new law sees past that and celebrates all forms of the urban agriculture--from community gardens to market gardens.
Scientists say Fukushima's food is safe. So why aren't the Japanese eating it?
Japanese government officials say the region's food is safe to eat. Problem is, neither its producers nor consumers trust them anymore.
two of Fukushima largest food-producing areas, one Sukagawa farmer noted that the government approves of shipments of food that test below 100 becquerels (units of radioactivity) per kilogram,
lower than its original 500 Bq limit (and in line with global standards), selling it at below-market value.
But he would not allow his own family to eat the food he is allowed to sell. â Å We won eat it ourselves
or joy in our work anymore. â Â But despite the gut instinct that food from Fukushima cannot be safe,
together with Japan natural iodine-rich seafood diet, make Fukushima food today safer than an average CT scan.
So, the fear of Fukushima's food persists. Geraldine Thomas, Professor of Molecular Pathology at the Imperial College in London,
Thomas finds the food fear in Japan baffling a sign of modern and misbegotten hysteria. â Å The most important thing to do immediately after the accident was to restrict the consumption of locally produced milk and green leafy vegetables
an independent consultant on radioactivity in the environment who is closely monitoring Fukushima says that Japanese should fear radiation just not necessarily in the region food. â Å Contaminated food intakes are a relatively small part of the problem.
Personally I would have no worries about consuming food from Fukushima and in fact did so when I was in Tokyo last April. â Â Photo:
Seattle builds nation's largest food forestthere are plenty of innovative ideas in urban farming:
In Seattle's Beacon hill neighborhood, plans are in place to turn an empty seven acre lot that didn't receive much attention (expect from the occasional lawn mower) into a food forest for everyone to use.
the Beacon Food Forest will be the largest public food forest in the United states, according to the Seattle news website Crosscut.
and food as far as you can see...In a food forest, everything from the tree canopy to the roots is edible or useful in some way.
It sounds like the Wonka factory, only good for you. In reality, it will be a large scale example of permaculture, an attempt to mimic natural ecosystems.
Nation's largest public Food Forest takes root on Beacon hill Crosscut Photo: Beacon Food Forest
Self-sculpting sand assembles itself into shapessandboxes will never be the same again. Picture this:
Cows get so routinely sick that they undermine the planet's tenuous food supply and cost the global economy an estimated $60 billion.
Vital Herd's technology could potentially alleviate a food shortage that threatens to worsen as the world's population swells from today's 7. 1 billion to somewhere around 9. 6 billion by 2050.
 Should restaurants fine customers who waste food? Half of all food wasted
Sensor-managed garden goes'beyond organic 'And you thought it just took sunlight and soil to raise a tomato.
Will Bratton and Samuel Bagot believe a much better tomato can be brought to life in their horto domi (latin for garden at home) kit,
Our goal is to produce open systems and hardware that produce healthy, clean food, conveniently, for individuals and families.
We want to get past the mega-industrialized food production systems that are often more of a harm than a benefit to our health
Their technological path to food independence consists of a raised bed garden that contains 30 square feet of growing space with light heat
this approach to raising food in small spaces could catch on. Sensors are used widely to monitor the conditions within high-value
But the horto domi concept shows the convergence of the maker culture, organic and local food advocates and high-and low-tech.
where the city's support systems are located entirely within city limits, from  energy sources to food production.
The organic vertical farming practice makes use of derelict warehouses to produce food for the community.
and stores in Chicago, including Whole Foods and Green Grocer. Production is based on two systems, aquaponics and aeroponics.
and national governments to secretly acquire land in poorer countries in order to secure supplies of food and other resources.
Verified deals But despite the concerns that many investors are buying to take advantage of high food prices,
it was split equally between food and non-food crops. The team said there was no clear bias towards biofuel crops.
the rising steel structure will help the city grow more food locally, reducing dependence on imported produce.
consumers seemed eager to buy the freshest food possible often buying out the market stock of vertical farm foods.
giving dense cities an opportunity to grow food in their own back yard
Bionic beesengineers from the universities of Sheffield and Sussex are planning on scanning the brains of bees
As parents and communities bestow more consideration to safe food for their kids, the local food campaign is earning immense popularity.
Perhaps, most people try to protect the surroundings by reducing energy-consumption associated with foodstuff distribution from faraway farmers.
and to put the power to muster this group in the hands of our future food producers We work together in the spirit of mutual aid
Farm experts say that such efforts could lead to higher food prices, lower crop yields, rising farm costs and more pollution of land and water. oeit is the single largest threat to production agriculture that we have seen ever,
Glyphosate oeis as important for reliable global food production as penicillin is for battling disease, Stephen B. Powles,
however, is either a glimpse at the future of food growing or a very strange hobby possibly both.
Some 500 gallons of water fill a pair of food-grade polyethylene drums that he scavenged from a light-industry park.
Mr. Torcellini has a Youtube channel to demonstrate it. oethere alternate ways of growing food,
Villagers defy supermarkets A village on the western fringes of Hampshire is well on the way to becoming the first in England to defy the power of the supermarkets by achieving communal self-sufficiency in food.
The people of Martin continued to be surrounded by fields growing food but none of it reached their plates.
I wanted a system to provide local food for the many.""He organised a meeting in the village social club in 2003,
the food was produced entirely by voluntary labour, and Martin remains a village full of people on rotas for various horticultural and stock-rearing tasks.
Snelgar says 60%of the households in Martin use the co-op to supply at least some of their food.
Snelgar's dream is for each village to combine cooperatively to employ a food grower with as much status as the local teacher or doctor.
regards the co-op as an inspiring example of how a small community can combine to produce food locally.
Beddington has increased called for production to counter a"perfect storm"of food shortages that could become a global threat by 2030.
"People are sick of being told to worry about food. They need to feel empowered. We know of lots of alternative local food systems that are sustainable, resilient, viable and principled.
They may not be able to solve the global problem, but they can say:''Nothing we are doing will stand people in worse stead.'"
'"Gold award Across Britain, scores of local food projects are supported by the Soil Association, often in coalition with other groups.
In Dorset, the Local Food Links scheme is providing hot lunches to 23 primary schools in Bridport and Blandford.
Tim Crabtree set up the Local Food Links scheme in Bridport to provide a healthier, local alternative.
"We have seen a polarisation in food. There are niche organic outlets for those who can afford it,
but most people end up with food at low cost and low nutritional value. We think we can do something about that in institutions serving people who need high-quality food
Are vegetables the new flowers? A Lancashire town is experimenting with using traditional floral displays,
Exponents say the idea is symbolic of the local determination to highlight the risk of food shortages and climate change.
said the aim was to encourage people to think about sourcing food nearby.""We need to move towards that sort of economy, taking responsibility as individuals for our own food production,
"she said. The initiative follows successful pioneering in another Pennine town, Todmorden, where the Yorkshire-Lancashire boundary bisects the town hall and cricket pitch.
Schools use local produce and the long-term aim is complete self-reliance for food by 2018.
part of a national network encouraging similar sustainable, locally grown food production. The group's secretary, Chris Gathercole, said:"
and the Food Pillthe FUTURIST magazine has featured recently potential oefixes and uncommon solutions to various big problems facing the world.
Unlike corn or even sugar ethanol, halophyte algae (algae that grow in saltwater) do not compete with food stocks for freshwater. oewhen the cost of pumping ocean water into so-called wasteland regions such as the Sahara
could lessen the world food and water shortages. Some 68%of the freshwater that is now tied up in conventional agriculture could
most of these people will be born in the countries that are least able to grow food.
000 liters of water is needed to produce a person daily food requirements. Futurist Fixes 1. The Food Pill.
In the future, we may see a type of pill for replacing food, but experts say it likely would not be a simple compound of chemicals.
A pill-sized food replacement system would have to be extremely complex because of the sheer difficulty of the task it was being asked to perform
more complex than any simple chemical reaction could be. The most viable solution, according to many futurists, would be a nanorobot food replacement system.
Dr. Robert Freitas, author of the Nanomedicine series and senior research fellow at the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, has described several potential food replacement technologies that are somewhat pill-like.
The key difference, however, is that instead of containing drug compounds, the capsules would contain thousands of microscopic robots called nanorobots.
but don t like what a food-indulgent lifestyle does to their body, Freitas has two other nanobot solutions. oenutribots floating through the bloodstream would allow people to eat virtually anything, a big fatty steak for instance,
as much as 5, 000 liters of water is needed to produce a person daily food requirements.
A pot for more-efficient food storage, a bicycle rigged to carry hundreds of pounds of cargo,
With sections focusing on food, water, shelter, health and sanitation, energy and transportation, and education, oedesign for the Other 90%focused on problem solving for the vast majority of the world people who survive under the poverty level
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