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Central Standard
9:29 am
Wed March 28, 2012

Farm & Food Controversies With Harvest Public Media

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Still image from a recent Chipotle commercial.
Credit Harumendhah Helmy / Missouri School of Journalism
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On this Wednesday's Central Standard, a look at the role of semantics when we discuss industrial agriculture. What does it mean when we say pink slime vs. lean beef trimming? Biotech vs. GMO?

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Harvest Public Media
11:52 am
Fri March 16, 2012

Digest This: Food Controversies

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Join Harvest Public Media for a live talk show and discussion on food production Friday at 4 p.m. CST.

We all eat.

That means we all have a stake in how food is produced. And many of us also have strong opinions.

Even if you don’t spend much time thinking about what you eat, it’s pretty hard to ignore the constant, polarizing food fights — which are often the subject of television commercials, books and movies.

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Harvest Public Media
8:29 am
Mon March 12, 2012

Climate Change And Regulations Worry Farmers

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A worker at Dixon Ridge Walnuts in Lodi, Calif., prunes a tree.
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A worker at Dixon Ridge Walnuts in Lodi, Calif., prunes a tree.
Walnut farmer Russ Lester is concerned about the effects climate change could bring to his California farm.
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Walnut farmer Russ Lester is concerned about the effects climate change could bring to his California farm.
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No matter your personal opinion on the subject, talk of climate usually conjures up images of warming, floods and rising sea levels.  Those are the ecological changes predicted from coast to coast.

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Agriculture
11:56 am
Tue February 28, 2012

Gleaning Farmers' Fields For The Hungry

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On this Tuesday's Central Standard, learn about an area organization that gleans sweet corn fields, apple orchards, and more, transporting fresh fruits and vegetables to the hungry in our area.

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Harvest Public Media
2:59 pm
Mon February 27, 2012

Food Industry Courts Meat-Eating Vegetarians

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"Vegetarian chicken" made by Savage River Farms, front, certainly looks like regular cooked chicken, back.
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Harold Huff, a research scientist at the University of Missouri, shows off the artificial meat product he makes in his lab.
Credit Jeremy Bernfeld / Harvest Public Media
The soy powder on the left becomes the fake chicken product on the right after it passes through an industrial machine called an extruder.
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Some vegetarian food is getting a makeover. It's being made to look, feel and taste more like meat.

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9:50 am
Thu February 23, 2012

Opponents Of High-Security Lab In Manhattan Gain Steam

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Signs outside the site.
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Security around the site is tight.
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Two security posts at each entrance monitor who comes in and out.
Credit Laura Ziegler / KCUR
Site Manager Tim Barr explains the layout of the facility.
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Some worry that the site's location on the K-State campus will endanger the university's students.
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The proximity of K-State's football stadium was cited as a concern by the National Academies of Science in its 2010 review.
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Opponents of a controversial Kansas lab designed to study and combat biological diseases have recently found new energy, as work on the Department of Homeland Security project stalled.

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Harvest Public Media
11:41 am
Mon February 13, 2012

Assessing The Additives

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Jill Lucht, of Columbia, Mo., reads the ingredient lists on the food in her refrigerator.
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Pick up your favorite packaged food and read the ingredient list. If you stumbled over any of the words or a color jumped out at you, you might be looking at what’s known as a food additive.

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Harvest Public Media
10:07 am
Wed February 8, 2012

Biomass Or Bust: Kansas Ethanol Plant Seeks Higher Ground

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Corn stalks, leaves and cobs like these at the Kansas State Southwest Research and Extension Center in Garden City, Kan., can be harvested as biomass.
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Drive by a field that’s ready for biomass harvest and you’ll think you’re too late. The grain is gone and it’s just broken stalks and leaves everywhere.

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