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A Threat to the Food System

Posted October 17th, 2016 at 1:11 pm (UTC-5)
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Fourteen years ago, U.S. Navy SEALs found a list of pathogens and a schematic in an Afghanistan cave that al-Qaida planned to use to produce bioweapons. In addition to six human pathogens, ten pathogens targeted food, six targeted livestock and poultry, and four targeted crops. Clearly, al-Qaida was considering agroterrorism.

The Depression Was Great for the American Kitchen

Posted September 26th, 2016 at 10:44 am (UTC-5)
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[E]ven at the height of the Depression, when a quarter of the workforce was unemployed, most people were not on relief, and most were not suffering malnutrition. Those people were, however, seeing some pretty remarkable transformation in how they produced, purchased and consumed food.