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Californians shoot down three food and beverage-related ballot measures

| Zachary Snider
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Voters say ‘no’ to tax on sugary drinks, labels on genetically engineered food

FoodPolitik: Food Day and 'first world problems' - TheDC Opinion

| Rick Berman
Food Marketing Children

Americans apparently come in first place for taking our prosperity — and our food — for granted

FoodPolitik: Do we really need a 'Food Day'? - TheDC

| Rick Berman
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Holiday that nearly died in 1970s is back with a vengeance

FoodPolitik: A fat tax for an obese bureaucracy - TheDC Opinion

| Rick Berman
UN General Assembly

Mayor Bloomberg encourages UN to adopt strict, NYC-style food regulations to make healthy foods the ‘default’ option

World food prices nearing new record - Bloomberg

| InternAdmin
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After falling for several months following their all-time record in February, food prices are surging again, stoking inflation fears

Chinese watermelon explosion - AP

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Fields of exploding watermelons in China prompt questions about famers’ use, and misuse, of chemicals

Representatives of 12 nations compete for the title of top embassy chef - TheDC

| Melissa Benson

Diplomacy took a backseat to head-to-head cooking competition Tuesday night

Al Gore is half right on ethanol

| Dave Juday

Gore has come out against corn ethanol, but he continues to support cellulosic ethanol. There’s a reason for that.

Vino Veritas: Americans drink more wine than the French - TIME

| Vince Coglianese

A new study ranks the U.S. as the top wine-consuming nation in the world

Farm subsidies face $30B hit under Ryan's budget plan - AP

| admin

Paul Ryan has proposed cutting agriculture subsidies by $30 billion over the next 10 years

Happy Meal critical lawmaker sneaks Big Macs - NYP

| interns

‘I’m a fast-food aficionado. My typical lunch is getting something from Popeye’s or McDonald’s.’

Caffeine junkie? Blame it on your DNA - TheDC

| Alyssa Moody

A new study shows caffeine addiction is a genetic trait

FoodPolitik: Mark Bittman's food snobbery - TheDC Opinion

| Rick Berman

The Bittman-inspired foodie movement’s goal is to encourage us all to roll back the clock on farming and food production, to a practically pre-Industrial Revolution framework

Food coloring linked to ADHD? - NYT

| interns

The Food and Drug Administration meets this week to see whether artificial food dyes cause hyperactivity in children

Self-control can make you angry - TIME

| interns

Psychological research suggests exercising self-control leads to irritability and aggression

USDA spends $60 mil in climate change crop research - AP

| admin

One study will focus on Midwestern corn, another on wheat in the Northwest and a third on Southern pine forests

FoodPolitik: Trim the budget by cutting radical activism - TheDC Opinion

| Rick Berman

PBS to showcase 90-minute special designed to push an anti-meat agenda under the guise of mainstream health advice

FoodPolitik: Chewing on 40 years of food policing - TheDC Opinion

| Rick Berman

What did you have for lunch today? It doesn’t really matter. Whatever it was, it’s probably going to cause heart disease, cancer, or hypertension

Breast milk ice cream anyone? - Reuters

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A London shop will soon serve a breast milk ice cream mixture which creators have named, ‘Baby Gaga’

The benefits of eating insects - WSJ

| interns

Could eating insects become a “green trend?”