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Udi
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Udi Falkson, Food-Lover
New York, New York
About me
Hi, I'm Udi. I'm one of the folks building this Foodstand app. If you see any bugs or have any suggestions, please send us feedback!!!!
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thefoodstand.comHow Rising CO2 Levels May Contribute to Die-Off of Bees by Lisa Palmer: Yale Environment 360
8yr
e360.yale.edu
"As they investigate the factors behind the decline of bee populations, scientists are now eyeing a new culprit — soaring levels of carbon dioxide, which alter plant physiology and significantly re...
Counterfeit Foods, and How to Spot Them
8yr
lifehacker.com
"That Parmesan cheese is actually wood, that honey has corn syrup, and the cake is a lie. There’s no guarantee the food you’re buying at the store is what it says it is, so keep an eye out for thes...
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Gwendolyn So horrifying. These are good pointers!
How Breakfast Became a Thing
8yr
priceonomics.com
"Do you think breakfast is the most important meal of the day? Then you fell for an ad campaign designed in 1944 to sell more cereal."
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Udi ""The Romans believed it was healthier to eat only one meal a day," food historian Caroline Yeldham has said. Many Native Americans, Abigail Carroll writes in The Invention of the American Meal,...
Scientists Prove Goats Are Better Than Chemical Weedkillers
8yr
rodalewellness.com
"Science proves what farmers already know: Goats make excellent weedkillers."
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etsummer Love this! I've heard of a few vineyards in Sonoma and Napa recently integrating livestock (goats and sheep namely) to act as weedkillers and fertilize the soil in between the rows.
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sugardetoxme Loved when they would release goats in San Francisco
Nestlé’s Sugar Empire Is on a Health Kick - Bloomberg
8yr
bloomberg.com
"Take two Butterfingers and call me in the morning."
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Gwendolyn An extension of gummy vitamins, I suppose?
Junk food makers tell people to eat less junk - Business Insider
8yr
businessinsider.com
"Companies like Coke, Nestle, and Hershey are doing something that seems counterintuitive: they're telling people to eat less junk food."
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sugardetoxme They probably did a study that shows that telling people to eat less junk, just gets people thinking about the junk and eating more not less.
Scientists Have Found A Way To Keep Fruit Fresh Without A Refrigerator | Popular Science
8yr
popsci.com
"The secret could be silk"
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DietID_TeamDietitians Ahh they didn't test for taste!
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Udi Haha jeez
It's a 2-acre farm, packed into a shipping container that doubles as a farm building : TreeHugger
8yr
treehugger.com
"The Farm From A Box system is designed to feed 150 people per year, and includes drip irrigation, all of the tools, and its own renewable energy setup."
Food Politics by Marion Nestle » Big Ag forces firing of long-time Farm News cartoonist
8yr
foodpolitics.com
"I love cartoons (witness Eat, Drink, Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics) and was appalled when I read this tweet: Here’s the offending cartoon: In a Facebook post the cartoonist, Ric…"
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DietID_TeamDietitians AWESOME
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JenniferEmilson Nice to see who holds the power, the big cry babies!!