9:36 am in bees, Food & Health, honey, pesticides, Travel & Nature, turkey by TreeHugger
Honey for sale in Polonezköy, an Istanbul village. Photo: ccarlstead / Creative Commons
If you ask me, the real "Turkish delight" is served at breakfast time: A square of rich, thick
kaymak (clotted cream), topped with fresh-off-the-comb honey (
bal). But though Turkey is one of the world's top
honey producers, ...
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1:07 pm in africa, animals, endangered species, kenya, pesticides, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger
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Despite people knowing for years that carbofuran, a pesticide also known as furadan, has been
devastating the lion population in Kenya, and despite continued
calls to ban the pesticide, it continues to be used—or more accurately, misused, to intentionally poison lions. ...
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2:07 pm in food, Food & Health, fruits and vegetables, organic agriculture, pesticides by TreeHugger
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The
Environmental Working Group (EWG) has released its 2011
Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce. The seventh edition of the guide is a summary of data compiled from US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) research. EWG ranks the produce based on a composite score that balances the number of pesticides present and at what levels.
The results are publicized through the popular "Dirty Dozen" list. While I advocate buying organic produce, s...
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3:53 pm in agriculture, farming, Food & Health, india, pesticides by TreeHugger
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If you read TreeHugger, you probably know about the shockingly high
suicide rate among farmers in India. But it's not just high: it's one farmer every 30 minutes, according to a
report [PDF] recently released by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University Law School. ...
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Does anyone remember the case of Percy Schmeiser, a Canadian farmer who was sued by Monsanto after the company's Roundup Ready canola had drifted onto his farm without him knowing about or wanting it? A new case in Minnesota could be just the opposite scenario: Oluf and Debra Johnson say that pesticides from surrounding conventional farms have been wafting onto their 1500-acre organic farm—damaging their crop and impacting their profits. A court has now ruled that the Johnsons can sue to recover their lo...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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