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Twenty-three students in an animal care and management class spent two months raising 10 Pekin ducks from tiny chicks to roughly eight-pound adults, and then cooked them and ate them.

The Franciscan Center has made great strides in expanding its healthy food initiatives over the past few years.

The Franciscan Center hopes to gain insight into the effectiveness of providing low-income clients with CSA shares.

The poor, said Malik Yakini, become markets for cheap inferior goods sold by the rich, much like in colonized lands.

USDA expanded eligibility for grants for equipment that makes it possible for farmers to accept SNAP EBT cards.

The Center has undertaken a project to analyze the original recommendations of the Commission.

Mixed messaging on which recreationally caught fish are safe to catch versus which are safe to eat are not uncommon.

“An Introduction to the U.S. Food System: Perspectives from Public Health” enrolled more than 17,000 students from around the world.

Fish excrete ammonia; bacteria convert the ammonia into nitrites; different bacteria convert nitrites into nitrates; the plants consume the nitrates.

Jillian Fry spelled out the reasons that the Center opposes the process for considering GE salmon.