Want To Forage In Your City? There's A Map For That

Kristofor Husted — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:58:00 +0000

If you really love your peaches and want to shake a tree, there's a map to help you find one. That goes for veggies, nuts, berries and hundreds of other edible plant species, too.

Avid foragers Caleb Philips and Ethan Welty launched an interactive map last month that identifies more than a half-million locations across the globe where fruits and veggies are free for the taking.

GMO labeling laws on deck in the Midwest

Abbie Fentress Swanson — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:16:53 +0000

Just south of Hermann, Mo., Swiss Meat and Sausage Co. processes 2 million pounds of meat a year -- everything from cattle to hogs to buffalo to elk.

And everything gets a label.

“No antibiotics added, raised without added hormones, all natural, minimally processed," Glenn Brandt, the production manager for Swiss Meat, reads from a hefty roll of hickory smoked beef sausage stickers.

What this label does not indicate, however, is whether or not the sausage contains genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.

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Want To Forage In Your City? There's A Map For That

GMO labeling laws on deck in the Midwest