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Food Production

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5 Ways to Ensure What You Read is Scientifically Credible

5 Ways to Ensure What You Read is Scientifically Credible

Today, news spreads at the speed of light, getting to thousands of internet users in mere minutes. How can we decipher what is credible information and what is just ‘fake news’?

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Avoiding conventional strawberries? Ask these questions first...

Avoiding conventional strawberries? Ask these questions first...

Introducing D2D's "Discerning Dozen", a compilation of tips to identify good science from pseudoscience. This way, you can spot problems in the logic of buzzy news stories, like EWG's Dirty Dozen.

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Jack Bobo: How We Choose Our Food

Jack Bobo: How We Choose Our Food

Especially during chaotic times like this, we rely on Jack Bobo's insights into our behaviors as food consumers to educate us and help us make better decisions. While we search our supermarket for a new "superfood" to cure us or a "natural" product to make us feel healthier, Jack is searching for the answers to why our brains want us to behave this way and what we can do to better evaluate our purchasing decisions.

Agricultural Technology, Food Production

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Why are we buying so much toilet paper?!

Why are we buying so much toilet paper?!

We've all witnessed panic-buying in the grocery aisles and maybe did some ourselves. The empty shelves reveal how we try to find control as coronavirus fears grow more rampant. But how do we control our fears and our carts?

Food Security, Health

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