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	<description>How we can transform our lives and heal our world, one bite at a time.</description>
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		<title>Farm Bill Draft Spells Out Business As Usual &#8212; Or Worse</title>
		<link>http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/04/farm-bill-draft-spells-out-business-as-usual-or-worse/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/04/farm-bill-draft-spells-out-business-as-usual-or-worse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laetitia Mailhes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few legislative texts are as essential as the Farm Bill. Reshaped every five years, this piece of legislation plays a major role in defining the American food system. It frames the priorities of the US agricultural policy (say, increase commodity &#8230; <a href="http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/04/farm-bill-draft-spells-out-business-as-usual-or-worse/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Eat Every Day Like It&#8217;s Earth Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/04/eat-every-day-like-its-earth-day/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/04/eat-every-day-like-its-earth-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laetitia Mailhes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earth Day is a great opportunity to remember and reflect, if only for a moment, on the symbiotic relationship between our planet and its inhabitants. Now, what if we could be present to it every day, and taste daily the &#8230; <a href="http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/04/eat-every-day-like-its-earth-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Industrial Agriculture Cannot Feed The World</title>
		<link>http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/04/industrial-agriculture-cannot-feed-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/04/industrial-agriculture-cannot-feed-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laetitia Mailhes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Read me]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agroecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GMO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IAASTD]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.thegreenplate.org/?p=1515</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve heard it many time: “Organic farming is a nice luxury, not a solution to world hunger.” Despite the many rebuttals offered time and time again, this conversation is not going anywhere. Scaremongers are not letting go, and for good &#8230; <a href="http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/04/industrial-agriculture-cannot-feed-the-world/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Biggest Cost Of Pesticides: Honeybee Colony Collapse</title>
		<link>http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/04/biggest-cost-of-pesticides-honeybee-colony-collapse/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/04/biggest-cost-of-pesticides-honeybee-colony-collapse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laetitia Mailhes</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[honeybees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pesticides]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After years of head-scratching, scientists from various horizons are coming to the same conclusion: pesticides are major culprits. Grist gives an excellent overview of various studies recently published. Time&#8217;s Ecocentric Blog and Wired focus on a controversial Harvard study that claims to ID the bee &#8230; <a href="http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/04/biggest-cost-of-pesticides-honeybee-colony-collapse/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>FDA&#8217;s Lip Service On Antibiotics</title>
		<link>http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/04/fda-antibiotics-prescription/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/04/fda-antibiotics-prescription/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laetitia Mailhes</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[antibiotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CAFO]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.thegreenplate.org/?p=1521</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It sounds so good: “Farmers and ranchers will for the first time be required to get a prescription from a veterinarian before using antibiotics in cattle, pigs, chickens and other animals, federal food regulators announced on Wednesday,” according to the New York &#8230; <a href="http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/04/fda-antibiotics-prescription/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Awareness Index Up: Climate Change, Farm Workers Exploitation</title>
		<link>http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/04/awareness-index-up-climate-change-farm-workers-exploitation/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/04/awareness-index-up-climate-change-farm-workers-exploitation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[agroecology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have determined that the accelerated increase in atmospheric nitrous oxide in the last few decades has been caused by synthetic nitrogen fertilizer use. In other words, The Science has spoken again, and established beyond &#8230; <a href="http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/04/awareness-index-up-climate-change-farm-workers-exploitation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Grow Them Out! (or how to save cultivated biodiversity)</title>
		<link>http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/02/grow-them-out-or-how-to-save-cultivated-biodiversity/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/02/grow-them-out-or-how-to-save-cultivated-biodiversity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laetitia Mailhes</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[biodiversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GMO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seeds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vavilov]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.thegreenplate.org/?p=1496</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jim Richardson is no scientist. He&#8217;s a National Geographic photographer. As such, he got to work on one of the most fascinating, relevant, crucial stories of our times: the preservation of seeds and heirloom animal breeds. The great thing about lay people &#8230; <a href="http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/02/grow-them-out-or-how-to-save-cultivated-biodiversity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>White House Proposes Slashing US Farm Subsidies</title>
		<link>http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/02/pressreview-slashing-subsidies/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/02/pressreview-slashing-subsidies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laetitia Mailhes</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farm Bill]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Farmers-Veteran Coalition]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.thegreenplate.org/?p=1491</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The perfect storm that may obliterate controversial farm subsidies is brewing. The federal budget crisis, together with the historically high agricultural income recorded in 2011, have led the Obama Administration to consider the obvious: big commodity growers don’t need the help of &#8230; <a href="http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/02/pressreview-slashing-subsidies/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>US aims to create 100,000 new farmers</title>
		<link>http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/02/us-aims-to-create-100000-new-farmers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/02/us-aims-to-create-100000-new-farmers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laetitia Mailhes</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.thegreenplate.org/?p=1483</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Government-backed loans to new farmers have more than doubled in the past decade in the United States. The goal is to reverse a worrisome trend: U.S. Census data showed that the average age of U.S. farmers rose from 52 in &#8230; <a href="http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/02/us-aims-to-create-100000-new-farmers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>No Nourishment To Be Found In Suffering</title>
		<link>http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/02/no-nourishment-to-be-found-in-suffering/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/02/no-nourishment-to-be-found-in-suffering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laetitia Mailhes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Humane Society’s graphic footage of animal abuse at two industrial pig farms is making wave, and rightly so. The arrogance of the farms’ owners is unfettered, as they claim they’re not doing anything wrong, and are adhering to strict animal welfare &#8230; <a href="http://blog.thegreenplate.org/2012/02/no-nourishment-to-be-found-in-suffering/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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