Is it really possible a label on food is more important than civility? I think not. Is it likely marketing on healthy foods is just as challenging as marketing on junk food? You decide for yourself, but after 15 years of researching the topic, I’d say absolutely. Let’s get to the bottom of it.…
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Meet Tyson Roberts, a vegetable grower just outside of Salt Lake City, Utah – a man who wears many hats and a man who is committed to the land that has been in his family for 150 years. When I asked why he farms, he quickly responds: “it’s a relationship with the land, with…
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Chemicals are bad, right? Not quite. Chemicals are a building block of life. All living organisms are usually built from these six chemicals: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous and sulfur. It is also true life produces chemicals, such as carbon dioxide. Plants also make their own pesticides. These have adapted over time…
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Warning – you may change the way you look at animals. You see, chickens are cannibals. They will peck and peck at each other until…well, you know. They are also amongst the world’s largest scavenger population. Chickens don’t just wait for a farmer to thrown corn down and happily peck the ground. They will…
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Do you ever feel like an Olympian juggler? Finish up major project to meet a work deadline. Get kids fed after school. Shuttle to basketball, then piano. Pick up dry cleaning. Run to grocery store. Don’t forget the dog food. Get to the baseball game. And then it’s time to feed everyone. Yikes,…
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The first time I visited Hawaii and discovered the sweet fresh of papayas, I thought I was in heaven. I had never touched them before in the grocery store since they were kind of foreign looking. You know how it goes: if you don’t know what to do with a food, you skip it. After…
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