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The measure's Republican backers say it attacks fraud, but advocates say it will hurt the poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food stamps have traditionally been part of the farm bill, but in July, House leaders were forced to strip the program out of that bill because fiscal conservatives said its $20 billion in cuts over 10 years didn't go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We should reform the food stamp program so we can get the aid to those who need it most in their hour of need, without the kind of rampant waste and abuse that you see,\" said Rep. Tom Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not clear that waste and abuse really is all that rampant, but when House Republicans talk about the problem, they are most likely thinking of Jason Greenslate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greenslate is an unemployed San Diego surfer dude seen in a \u003ca href=\"http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/08/12/watch-unabashed-surfer-receiving-food-stamps-buy-sushi-and-avoid-work\" target=\"_self\">Fox News report\u003c/a> using his Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP card, to buy sushi and lobster. The story from correspondent John Roberts was reportedly circulated to GOP lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report shows Greenslate heading to the automated checkout counter and paying with his food stamp card. \"Two hundred dollars a month, and you just go like, boom,\" Greenslate says on camera. \"Just like that, all paid for by our wonderful tax dollars.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reality, the vast majority of SNAP recipients either work or are children, disabled or elderly. Greenslate is the exception, rather than the rule. He's been described as the new \u003ca href=\"http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0614FB395910728DDDAC0994DA405B868BF1D3\" target=\"_self\">welfare queen\u003c/a> — a caricature used to push welfare reform in the '80s and '90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor describes the new House food stamp bill as an extension of welfare reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This legislation restores the intent of the bipartisan welfare reforms adopted in 1996 to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,\" Cantor has said. \"It also refocuses the program on those who need it most.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The welfare reform bill said that able-bodied adults without dependents could get only three months of food aid in a three-year period unless they had a job or were in a state job-training program. Since the recession, states have been given waivers so that unemployed adults can keep getting food stamps. The House bill would cut back on those waivers. 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But, for the time being, SNAP has helped me out with some food until I do get a job,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For advocates like Brett Kincaid, the outreach director at \u003ca href=\"http://www.aradvocates.org/\" target=\"_self\">Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families\u003c/a>, the cuts proposed by the House bill just don't make sense. Kincaid says unemployment remains high, and when jobs are hard to come by, SNAP is even more important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The problem is people are hungry,\" he says. \"You can make the argument that they can go out and sustain themselves, and they should be able to find work. And in a perfect world, we would agree with that. But the world is imperfect, and if the jobs aren't there, the jobs aren't there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In total, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that under the House bill, 3.8 million people would lose SNAP benefits in 2014. Others would see their benefits cut. 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Photo: Nati Harnik/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/17/221376803/american-farmers-say-they-feed-the-world-but-do-they\">Morning Edition\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/09/20130917_me_09.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/17/221376803/american-farmers-say-they-feed-the-world-but-do-they\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (9/17/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When critics of industrial agriculture complain that today's food production is too big and too dependent on pesticides, that it damages the environment and delivers mediocre food, there's a line that farmers offer in response: We're feeding the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's high-tech agriculture's claim to the moral high ground. Farmers say they farm the way they do to produce food as efficiently as possible to feed the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.foodintegrity.org/about-us/leadership\">Charlie Arnot\u003c/a>, a former public relations executive for food and farming companies, now CEO of the Center for Food Integrity, says it's more than just a debating point. \"U.S. farmers have a tremendous sense of pride in the fact that they've been able to help feed the world,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That phrase showed up, for instance, a few weeks ago, at a big farm convention in Decatur, Ill. The seed and chemical company DuPont set up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.626853994021873.1073741836.138324096208201&type=1\">wall\u003c/a> with a question printed at the top in big capital letters: \"How are you making a difference to feed the world?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company invited people to answer that question, and thousands of them did. They wrote things like \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=626854237355182&set=a.626853994021873.1073741836.138324096208201&type=3&theater\">raising cattle\u003c/a>,\" \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=626854367355169&set=a.626853994021873.1073741836.138324096208201&type=3&theater\">growing corn and beans\u003c/a>,\" \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=626854367355169&set=a.626853994021873.1073741836.138324096208201&type=3&theater\">plant as much as possible\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXcVYp88-1Q\">Kip Tom\u003c/a>, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.tomfarms.com/\">grows\u003c/a> corn and soybeans on thousands of acres of Indiana farmland, says he's very aware of the fact that the world has more and more people, demanding more food. Yet there are fewer and fewer farmers, \"and it's the duty of those of us who are left in the business, us family farmers, to help feed that world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means growing more food per acre, he says, which requires new and better technology: genetically engineered seed, for instance, or \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/07/09/as-biotech-seed-falters-insecticide-use-surges-in-corn-belt/\">pesticides\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this is why the words \"feed the world\" grate on the nerves of people who believe that large-scale, technology-driven agriculture is bad for the environment and often bad for people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margaret Mellon, a scientist with the environmental advocacy group Union of Concerned Scientists, recently wrote an \u003ca href=\"http://blog.ucsusa.org/lets-drop-feed-the-world-a-plea-to-move-beyond-an-unhelpful-phrase-229\">essay\u003c/a> in which she confessed to developing an allergy to that phrase. \"If there's a controversy, the show-stopper is supposed to be, 'We have to use pesticides, or we won't be able to feed the world!'\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mellon says it's time to set that idea aside. It doesn't answer the concerns that people have about modern agriculture — and it's not even true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American-style farming doesn't really grow food for hungry people, she says. Forty percent of the biggest crop — corn — goes into fuel for cars. Most of the second-biggest crop — soybeans — is fed to animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing more grain isn't the solution to hunger anyway, she says. If you're really trying to solve that problem, there's a long list of other steps that are much more important. \"We need to empower women; we need to raise incomes; we need infrastructure in the developing world; we need the ability to get food to market without spoiling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seemed that this dispute needed a referee. So I called \u003ca href=\"http://dyson.cornell.edu/faculty_sites/cbb2/\">Christopher Barrett\u003c/a>, an economist at Cornell University who studies international agriculture and poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're both right,\" he said, chuckling. \"Sometimes the opposite of a truth isn't a falsehood, but another truth, right?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's true, he says, that bigger harvests in the U.S. tend to make food more affordable around the world, and \"lower food prices are a good thing for poor people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, Chinese pigs are growing fat on cheap soybean meal grown by farmers in the U.S. and Brazil, and that's one reason why hundreds of millions of people in China \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2011/12/30/144426549/in-china-finding-a-new-way-to-eat-in-times-of-plenty\">are eating much better\u003c/a> than a generation ago. They can afford to buy pork. 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Only 13 percent of these consumers strongly agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In focus groups, many people said that if feeding the world means more industrial-scale farming, they're not comfortable with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not a message farmers like to hear. \"It is a real sense of frustration for farmers that 'feeding the world' is no longer a message that resonates with the American public,\" Arnot says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tells farm groups that they'll have to find another message. They'll need to show that the way they grow food is consistent with the values of American consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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The three regions account for 80 percent of all meat wasted, and that's nothing to be proud of, given the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/06/27/155527365/visualizing-a-nation-of-meat-eaters\">climate, water and land impacts\u003c/a> of raising livestock for food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The food security implications of the world's food waste problem are both devastating and encouraging, says the FAO. They calculated in 2012 that by 2050, we need to increase food production by 60 percent in order to feed everyone. 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Photo: Adam Jackson/Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Business-friendly groups argue that the push for higher wages will only speed up the workers' \"replacement by automation,\" especially if the demand for a higher minimum wage is met.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The burgers of tomorrow could be made by robots — not employees,\" argues The Employment Policies Institute, a business-financed think tank that is running a full-page ad against the strike in \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.epionline.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/EPI_MinimumWageRobot_WSJ_final_lowres.pdf\">The Wall Street Journal\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fight for $15 is a fight against technology, not management — and that's a fight that these union-organized protestors can't win. Instead of securing a bigger paycheck, the less-experienced employees demanding a more than 100 percent pay increase will find their jobs replaced by less-costly alternatives,\" Michael Saltsman, research director at EPI, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_69272\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 217px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/automat-japan.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/automat-japan-217x290.jpg\" alt=\"At Japanese automats, you buy a ticket in the machine, hand in the ticket with your order, and pick up your food. Photo: Anna Lee/Flickr\" width=\"217\" height=\"290\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69272\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Japanese automats, you buy a ticket in the machine, hand in the ticket with your order, and pick up your food. 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A few employees are responsible for stocking the items behind the machines but way out of customer view, so you can walk up, drop in your coins and get a hot meal after a long night out without talking to anyone face-to-face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Japan also has a version of automats, known there as \u003cem>shokkenki\u003c/em>. There, you choose the meal you want and purchase a ticket for it, then you hand in your ticket to the cook behind the counter. 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Photo: Jennifer Ludden/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/08/29/216495125/for-restaurant-workers-a-struggle-to-put-food-on-the-table\">Morning Edition\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/08/20130829_me_16.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/2100815/jennifer-ludden\">Jennifer Ludden\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/08/29/216495125/for-restaurant-workers-a-struggle-to-put-food-on-the-table\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (8/29/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Losia Nyankale, 29, didn't \u003cem>mean\u003c/em> to make a career in the restaurant business. But after Nyankale was in college for two years, her mom lost her job as a schoolteacher and could no longer pay tuition. Then, Nyankale's temp jobs in bookkeeping dried up in the recession. So she went back to her standby — restaurant work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did some kitchen work. The pantries or the salad station,\" she says. \"I've also managed, supervised, wash[ed] dishes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, after her waitressing shift in a tony Washington, D.C., neighborhood, Nyankale picks up her 5-year-old son from school and her 4-year-old daughter from day care. Then it's an hourlong trek on the subway and bus to Nyankale's third-floor walk-up apartment. She and the children's father are separated, and he takes the kids on weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nyankale, who started out in fast food, joined such workers in a protest march in New York this past spring. The union-backed movement is asking for the right to organize and for \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/08/29/largest-strike-so-far-by-fast-food-workers-set-for-thursday/\">a pay increase\u003c/a> to $15 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nyankale is actually luckier than many restaurant workers; with tips, she \u003cem>can \u003c/em>sometimes make that much. But she has cut back her hours — to 25 a week — to allow time with her children. The only way she can make ends meet now, she says, is through food stamps and subsidies for rent and child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditionally, the food and restaurant industry has been an entry point for young people, who then move up. But today, according to government figures, the average such employee is 29 years old. And, like Nyankale, nearly a quarter of them are parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juggling Jobs, Long Hours\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nyankale has tried working more. When the kids were very young, she juggled two part-time waitressing jobs, routinely getting off at 1 or 2 a.m. To find cheap child care at that hour, she went on Craigslist, but the women offering to watch kids in their homes were hit or miss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You'd show up at the door and they're not home,\" Nyankale says. \"And then if you're trying to potty train [the children, the sitter's] not doing anything, or you pick up your child and your hand's soaked because their diaper hasn't been changed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nyankale tears up thinking about it. \"You know, there were times where I just went to work just to pay for my babysitter,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, some restaurant workers say they pay more than one-third of their income for child care, says Saru Jayaraman, co-founder and co-director of the worker advocacy group the Restaurant Opportunities Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says most restaurant workers are part time, which means no paid time off. So when a child gets sick, \"it creates a real crisis. Basically, lose your job and go get your child,\" Jayaraman says. \"Or, scramble to try to find some informal care that might be able to go get your child for you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jayaraman supports a bill to raise the minimum wage to just over $10. So far, there's not enough congressional support to pass that, let alone the $15 per hour that fast-food workers are striking for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Case Against Higher Wages\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry officials say a sharp increase in the minimum wage would kill jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Doubling the minimum wage is absolutely, positively going to reduce the number of jobs,\" says Scott DeFife, executive vice president of policy and government affairs at the National Restaurant Association. He says the industry is proud that one-third of all American adults got their start in restaurant jobs. 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When the kids were very young, she juggled two part-time waitressing jobs, routinely getting off at 1 or 2 a.m. To find cheap child care at that hour, she went on Craigslist, but the women offering to watch kids in their homes were hit or miss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You'd show up at the door and they're not home,\" Nyankale says. \"And then if you're trying to potty train [the children, the sitter's] not doing anything, or you pick up your child and your hand's soaked because their diaper hasn't been changed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nyankale tears up thinking about it. \"You know, there were times where I just went to work just to pay for my babysitter,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, some restaurant workers say they pay more than one-third of their income for child care, says Saru Jayaraman, co-founder and co-director of the worker advocacy group the Restaurant Opportunities Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says most restaurant workers are part time, which means no paid time off. 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Part-time work and flexible schedules are a big attraction for many, he says, and he points out that half of those making the minimum wage are teenagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Above all, DeFife says, the restaurant industry offers opportunity. \"It's there for people who have had economic difficulties in the past, or who may not have finished four years of a college or university program,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some workers say they find it impossible to get ahead making the minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Constantly Behind On Bills\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I been cooking all my life. My grandmother, at like 5 years old, threw me in the kitchen,\" says Christopher Drumgold of Detroit. The 32-year-old father of two is a kitchen worker at a McDonald's and makes $7.40 an hour, Michigan's minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drumgold wanted to make a career of cooking and spent six months at the Le Cordon Bleu cooking school in Las Vegas. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_68691\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1120px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/farmers-full.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/farmers-full.jpg\" alt=\"Eva Teague, 31, is trying to start her own pig farm in Colorado but is running into financial obstacles typical of many young farmers trying to break into the business. Photo: Luke Runyon/KUNC/Harvest Public Media\" width=\"1120\" height=\"839\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68691\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eva Teague, 31, is trying to start her own pig farm in Colorado but is running into financial obstacles typical of many young farmers trying to break into the business. Photo: Luke Runyon/KUNC/Harvest Public Media\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/08/21/213905983/young-farmers-break-the-bank-before-they-get-to-the-field\">Morning Edition\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/08/20130821_me_17.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/08/21/213905983/young-farmers-break-the-bank-before-they-get-to-the-field\">Luke Runyon\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/08/21/213905983/young-farmers-break-the-bank-before-they-get-to-the-field\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (8/21/2013)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the average age of the American farmer has crept up to 60, fewer young people are filling in the ranks behind them. That's prompted some to ask if young people even want to farm anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quick answer is yes, just not in the same numbers as they used to. And surveys indicate many of them don't want to farm in conventional ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2011 \u003ca href=\"http://www.youngfarmers.org/newsroom/building-a-future-with-farmers-october-2011/\">survey\u003c/a> from the National Young Farmers Coalition showed access to land and capital to be the single biggest factors keeping young people from getting into farming or ranching. The survey also indicated young people are concerned about the environment — they're \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2011/12/12/143459793/who-are-the-young-farmers-of-generation-organic\">generation organic\u003c/a>\" — and interested in small-scale operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it can be difficult to turn dreams of a farm life into reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Longmont, Colo., Eva Teague, 31, has learned how difficult it can be to start a pig farm. Teague is a grad school dropout turned farmer, originally from the East Coast. Jaded with academia, she moved to Colorado and began working as a farm apprentice. She bought her first pigs a couple years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[I] didn't have that much cash, so I paid for feed with the credit card just to get going,\" Teague says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, her biggest challenge, like many other young farmers, is \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2011/11/14/142305869/newbie-farmers-find-that-dirt-isnt-cheap\">access to capital\u003c/a>. She recently secured a low-interest loan from the federal Farm Service Agency, but it's not enough to get her business off the ground completely. Teague still spends her days on the farm and every evening working full-time as a waitress. Next year she plans to take a big leap: She wants to quit her off-farm job and rely solely on her farm income to sustain herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After searching for plots of land on Craigslist, Teague lucked out and scored a lease for 15 acres at the base of the Rocky Mountains. She taught herself Quickbooks accounting software, and she relies heavily on the skills she picked up during a handful of apprenticeships throughout Colorado. In short, Teague is part of the millennial generation of farmers, a group that often eschews traditional forms of agriculture and favors small-scale operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a very rare person who's not grown up on a farm that's going to go out and say, 'I want to plant 100,000 acres of corn. I want to invest $300,000 in a tractor. I want to get a confinement hog barn with 300,000 pigs,' \" Teague says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, the millennial generation isn't exclusively made up of farmers \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/06/14/188647380/new-blood-sparks-identity-crisis-for-fraternal-group-of-farmers\">who've jumped\u003c/a> on the local food movement. There are still young people out there who want to get involved with more conventional forms of agriculture, but many of them still find their options limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no way I'll ever be able to own my own ranch,\" says Bo Bigler, 25, a graduate student at Colorado State University. He'll graduate in August with a master's degree in beef management, which almost ensures a career working at large feedlots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The price to buy into it, it's too much; the cost of land is unreal,\" Bigler says. \"The only way that somebody can get into it is if a ranch was handed down to them, unless they're millionaires to begin with.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranch and farmland, not just in Colorado, but across the plains, is going for several thousand dollars per acre, keeping aspiring farmers from buying. Leased land is available, but it leaves farmers at the whim of a landlord who could choose to cancel or refuse to renew a lease agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no way they can pay the student loan and pay a land payment and still have enough money left over to live on,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://ansci.agsci.colostate.edu/peel-kraig/\">Kraig Peel\u003c/a>, a professor of animal sciences at Colorado State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of Peel's students come into his classes with idealistic ideas about farming and ranching. These days about 80 percent of his students have grown up in an urban setting. They quickly learn to realign their expectations, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's very frustrating for a lot of these students that would like to [run a farm or ranch],\" Peel says. \"Economically it just doesn't make sense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there's a need to bring in young people to large and small ranching operations. Sixty-four percent of the nation's cattle ranches are owned by someone older than 55. But many of Peel's students have chosen to forgo the financial difficulties of running a ranch and work for large agribusiness companies instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teague is working on a multiyear business plan to make sure she can add on a few acres of vegetables and some more pigs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think a lot of young people want to work outside in sort of a 'farm camp' fun experience,\" she says. \"There are fewer people who would like to work really hard, like 50 to 60 hours a week for not a lot of money, which is what working on a farm is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teague filled out a form for the latest agricultural census last year. When data is released in 2014, it'll become clearer whether enough young people have joined the ranks to keep the average age of farmers from climbing even higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Luke Runyon \u003cem>reports from Colorado\u003c/em> \u003cem>for \u003c/em>KUNC \u003cem>and\u003c/em> \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.harvestpublicmedia.org/\">Harvest Public Media\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003cem>a public radio reporting collaboration that focuses on agriculture and food production issues\u003c/em>.\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://harvestpublicmedia.org/article/young-dreams-huge-obstacles\">A version\u003c/a> \u003cem> of this post\u003c/em> \u003cem>appeared earlier on the Harvest Public Media website as part of the series \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://harvestpublicmedia.org/changinglands\">Changing Lands Changing Hands\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.kunc.org\">KUNC-FM\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it can be difficult to turn dreams of a farm life into reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Longmont, Colo., Eva Teague, 31, has learned how difficult it can be to start a pig farm. Teague is a grad school dropout turned farmer, originally from the East Coast. Jaded with academia, she moved to Colorado and began working as a farm apprentice. She bought her first pigs a couple years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[I] didn't have that much cash, so I paid for feed with the credit card just to get going,\" Teague says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, her biggest challenge, like many other young farmers, is \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2011/11/14/142305869/newbie-farmers-find-that-dirt-isnt-cheap\">access to capital\u003c/a>. She recently secured a low-interest loan from the federal Farm Service Agency, but it's not enough to get her business off the ground completely. Teague still spends her days on the farm and every evening working full-time as a waitress. Next year she plans to take a big leap: She wants to quit her off-farm job and rely solely on her farm income to sustain herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After searching for plots of land on Craigslist, Teague lucked out and scored a lease for 15 acres at the base of the Rocky Mountains. She taught herself Quickbooks accounting software, and she relies heavily on the skills she picked up during a handful of apprenticeships throughout Colorado. In short, Teague is part of the millennial generation of farmers, a group that often eschews traditional forms of agriculture and favors small-scale operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a very rare person who's not grown up on a farm that's going to go out and say, 'I want to plant 100,000 acres of corn. I want to invest $300,000 in a tractor. 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He'll graduate in August with a master's degree in beef management, which almost ensures a career working at large feedlots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The price to buy into it, it's too much; the cost of land is unreal,\" Bigler says. \"The only way that somebody can get into it is if a ranch was handed down to them, unless they're millionaires to begin with.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranch and farmland, not just in Colorado, but across the plains, is going for several thousand dollars per acre, keeping aspiring farmers from buying. 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Sixty-four percent of the nation's cattle ranches are owned by someone older than 55. But many of Peel's students have chosen to forgo the financial difficulties of running a ranch and work for large agribusiness companies instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teague is working on a multiyear business plan to make sure she can add on a few acres of vegetables and some more pigs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think a lot of young people want to work outside in sort of a 'farm camp' fun experience,\" she says. \"There are fewer people who would like to work really hard, like 50 to 60 hours a week for not a lot of money, which is what working on a farm is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teague filled out a form for the latest agricultural census last year. 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They don't want to put their feet down. And I had never seen these kinds of symptoms before, ever!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problems, she says, affect as many as 1 out of every 5 animals. She's become increasingly convinced that the problems result from the drugs called beta agonists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beta agonists are similar, chemically, to the adrenaline that our bodies produce. In humans, this class of drugs is used to treat asthma. 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At that same meeting, Grandin gave a talk about her observations of cattle that seemed reluctant to move. And an animal welfare expert from a big meat packer, JBS, showed a \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/13/us-usa-cattle-jbs-drugs-idUSBRE97C02M20130813\">video\u003c/a> of cattle that appeared lethargic, unable to walk properly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grandin says that video made people angry. \"You've got a lot of people in the cattle industry who care about cattle, and they don't like to see cattle that are lame,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As that conference was ending, another big meat packer, Tyson Foods, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/08/09/did-tyson-ban-doping-cows-with-zilmax-to-boost-foreign-sales/\" title=\"Did Tyson Ban Doping Cows with Zilmax to Boost Foreign Sales?\">announced \u003c/a>that it would stop buying cattle that had been fed one particular beta agonist: Zilmax. Zilmax, or zilpaterol, is considered the most powerful beta agonist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loneragan later had a chance to go through information that the company had collected on the effects of beta agonists. \"As they pieced together their information — and as I had the opportunity to review their information — they felt that they had to act, and I felt that they made the right decision,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Merck Animal Health, which makes Zilmax, initially defended its product, but decided last week to suspend sales of the drug. The company says that it remains convinced that Zilmax is safe for animals, and it expects to answer all the questions that people now have. Meanwhile, feedlot operators still can use another beta agonist, which is sold by the company Elanco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Food and Drug Administration, which approved these drugs, remains a bystander for now. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the summer of 2006, she says, she started seeing a new kind of problem among the cattle, especially when the weather got really hot. \"You had animals that were stiff and sore-footed, animals that were reluctant to move,\" she recalls. \"They act like the floor is red-hot. They don't want to put their feet down. And I had never seen these kinds of symptoms before, ever!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problems, she says, affect as many as 1 out of every 5 animals. She's become increasingly convinced that the problems result from the drugs called beta agonists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beta agonists are similar, chemically, to the adrenaline that our bodies produce. In humans, this class of drugs is used to treat asthma. When fed to cattle or pigs, though, the animals grow more muscle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These beta agonist drugs have a dramatic and profound and beneficial impact on production,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.depts.ttu.edu/afs/people/Faculty_Loneragan.php\">Guy Loneragan\u003c/a>, a professor of food safety and public health at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. \"They can add somewhere in the range of 15 to 30 pounds of beef to a carcass in the last three to four weeks of the fattening period.\" That makes a significant difference to a beef producer's bottom line, and as a result, these drugs are widely used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Loneragan, too, has come to believe that these profitable drugs may be causing problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks ago, at a meeting held by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, he presented data showing that feedlot cattle consuming beta agonists died more often. At that same meeting, Grandin gave a talk about her observations of cattle that seemed reluctant to move. And an animal welfare expert from a big meat packer, JBS, showed a \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/13/us-usa-cattle-jbs-drugs-idUSBRE97C02M20130813\">video\u003c/a> of cattle that appeared lethargic, unable to walk properly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grandin says that video made people angry. \"You've got a lot of people in the cattle industry who care about cattle, and they don't like to see cattle that are lame,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As that conference was ending, another big meat packer, Tyson Foods, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/08/09/did-tyson-ban-doping-cows-with-zilmax-to-boost-foreign-sales/\" title=\"Did Tyson Ban Doping Cows with Zilmax to Boost Foreign Sales?\">announced \u003c/a>that it would stop buying cattle that had been fed one particular beta agonist: Zilmax. Zilmax, or zilpaterol, is considered the most powerful beta agonist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loneragan later had a chance to go through information that the company had collected on the effects of beta agonists. \"As they pieced together their information — and as I had the opportunity to review their information — they felt that they had to act, and I felt that they made the right decision,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Merck Animal Health, which makes Zilmax, initially defended its product, but decided last week to suspend sales of the drug. The company says that it remains convinced that Zilmax is safe for animals, and it expects to answer all the questions that people now have. Meanwhile, feedlot operators still can use another beta agonist, which is sold by the company Elanco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Food and Drug Administration, which approved these drugs, remains a bystander for now. In an email, an FDA representative said only that the agency \"has received a very small number of reports\" of problems with these drugs and that the \"FDA will review any new information to determine if there is a safety issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grandin, for her part, is not pushing for a ban on beta agonists. She thinks it may be possible to use these drugs in ways that avoid causing harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Maybe you just don't do it in the summer, when it's hot,\" she says. \"The doses are probably going to have to be cut back. But these problems have got to stop. I've laid awake at night about it. I've worked all my career to improve how animals are handled, and these animals are just suffering. It has to stop!\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org\">NPR\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_68601\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1120px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/ramen-full.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/ramen-full.jpg\" alt=\"A child eats instant noodles on a train at the Harbin Railway Station in northeast China. Photo: WANG JIANWEI/Xinhua /Landov\" width=\"1120\" height=\"840\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68601\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child eats instant noodles on a train at the Harbin Railway Station in northeast China. Photo: WANG JIANWEI/Xinhua /Landov\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Eliza Barclay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/08/16/212671438/ramen-to-the-rescue-how-instant-noodles-fight-global-hunger\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (8/20/2013)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ask about the foods that have conquered the world and you're likely to hear about Coca-Cola and McDonald's Big Macs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the most successful industrial food ever produced flies far under the radar. And it has finally been outed by three anthropologists in a fascinating \u003ca href=\"http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520276345\">new book\u003c/a>, \u003cem>The Noodle Narratives\u003c/em>, which analyzes the precipitous rise – or \"brilliant career,\" as the authors say — of instant ramen, from its birth in postwar Japan to its sales of just over \u003ca href=\"http://instantnoodles.org/noodles/expanding-market.html\">100 billion servings\u003c/a> worldwide in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take a moment to digest that figure: It's about 14 servings for every single person on Earth, at a cost of just a few cents apiece. That's an astonishing quantity, especially to American consumers, who don't tend to think of the stiff, wavy blocks of noodles as an important staple (though they are for some college students, inmates and low-income Americans). And while our foodie culture currently has a fling with ramen (think ramen bars and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.grubstreet.com/2013/08/new-yorks-changing-ramen-scene.html\">ramen burger\u003c/a>), we're only the world's sixth-biggest market for the noodles, according to the World Instant Noodles Association. Our consumption is dwarfed by that of China and India — and even Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_68600\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 190px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/ramen3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/ramen3-190x290.jpg\" alt=\"The Noodle Narratives: The Global Rise Of An Industrial Food Into The Twenty-First Century\" width=\"190\" height=\"290\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-68600\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Noodle Narratives:\u003cbr>The Global Rise Of An Industrial Food Into The Twenty-First Century\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Indeed, it's the multinational noodle companies' conquest of countries like Papua New Guinea, Nigeria, Brazil and Mexico that really interests the anthropologists: Frederick Errington of Trinity College, Tatsuro Fujikura of Kyoto University and Deborah Gewertz of Amherst College. And it's here that they make one of their most intriguing arguments: Instant noodles do good by alleviating the hunger of millions of people around the world. These super cheap, super palatable noodles, they write, help the low-wage workers in rich and poor countries alike hang on when the going gets tough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're cheap and tasty and tweakable,\" Gewertz tells The Salt. \"They're capable of being transformed to everyone's cultural taste.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Thailand, instant ramen is seasoned with lemongrass and cilantro. Mexicans can buy Maruchan noodle soup cups flecked with \u003ca href=\"http://maruchan.com.mx/mg/vaso-maruchan/\">shrimp, lime and habanero\u003c/a>, among other flavors. Papua New Guineans have incorporated the noodles into rituals as cardinal as weaning babies and honoring the dead, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Japan, the birthplace of instant ramen, the consumer appetite for novel ramen products is so ravenous that manufacturers introduce 600 new flavors a year, the authors report. But it all started in the postwar period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 1957, businessman Momofuku Ando (yes, the namesake of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120012206\">Chef David Chang's beloved restaurants\u003c/a>) decided he wanted to invent an industrial take on freshly made ramen – the stuff Chang has helped make trendy again — for his hungry, budget-minded compatriots using surplus wheat donated by the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took Ando years to perfect the process of making a dry block of noodles. But ultimately he succeeded by applying the \"principle of tempura:\" steaming and dousing the noodles in chicken broth, and then bathing them in hot oil. This dried them out, and made them shelf-stable, but also easy to rehydrate. He added the winning combination of MSG, salt and sugar (which now comes in a flavor packet) to round out the flavor. While industrial instant ramen has evolved new variations, Nissin and the other manufacturers haven't strayed far from Ando's original recipe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While not exactly nutritious, instant noodles are a \"hunger killer,\" as the authors say. They're made with wheat flour, which has a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/09/10/160757730/low-and-slow-may-be-the-way-to-go-when-it-comes-to-dieting\">high glycemic index\u003c/a> (a metric for how soon a food is likely to make you hungry again). But they're also fried in palm oil, which is 49 percent saturated fat — higher than pork lard (40 percent) and soybean oil (14 percent).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All that fat keeps you feeling full longer and helps bring the noodles' overall glycemic index down. The fact that instant noodles become soup once you add water helps, too – as the authors note, soup provides longer satiety than, say, noodles alone. And that helps explain why ramen have become a staple of the world's undernourished, and part of some humanitarian food aid packages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palm is the industry's oil of choice because it's cheap, it can withstand high heat, and it has a longer shelf life than other oils. But in the U.S., \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/07/25/205486197/palm-oil-in-the-food-supply-what-you-should-know\">we're told to eat palm oil sparingly\u003c/a> because it raises bad LDL cholesterol levels. So is it really wise for so many people around the world to be so reliant on instant ramen for sustenance? Why can't the urban poor eat something more nutritious than this highly processed, high-fat food?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, that would be ideal, the authors say, but the reality is that in many global cities, the urban poor lack affordable alternatives that are more healthful than ramen. \"How are you going to feed these people?\" says Gewertz. \"I would love to feed them with fruits and vegetables at the local markets, but they are expensive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_68599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1120px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/ramen2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/ramen2.jpg\" alt=\"Passengers eat instant noodles at the railway station in Shenyang, China in January 2013. Photo: YANG XINYUE/Xinhua /Landov\" width=\"1120\" height=\"839\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68599\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers eat instant noodles at the railway station in Shenyang, China in January 2013. Photo: YANG XINYUE/Xinhua /Landov\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The authors say that \"real food\" advocates like journalist Michael Pollan, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89876927\">wring their hands\u003c/a> over rising consumption of industrial food like ramen, raise important questions about its perils. But the authors also call ramen a \"virtually unstoppable\" phenomenon. And they foresee a world of 9 billion people \"in which the affluent will be presented with too many food choices and [will be] called upon to use their survival skills to choose wisely, and in which the poor will have to use their survival skills to get by on cheap food\" like ramen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'd love to take Michael Pollan to a squatter settlement and have him deal with poor, hungry people in such circumstances, who have no choice of going back home to grow subsistence crops or be part of a regional food system,\" says Gewertz. \"Subsistence agriculture is hard, dirty and hot work. People want out of it. It's not to be over romanticized.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, as Gerwertz tells us, a better way to help the poor who rely on ramen is to make the noodles more nutritious: they could be \"reduced-sodium, lower-fat, higher-fiber, better fortified,\" though that will also translate into a slightly higher price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We find it difficult to image the increasingly urbanized food future without this humble form of salt, MSG-enhanced, oily and sometimes sugary\" food, they write. But \"we conclude [that it's for the best] with great reluctance.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org\">NPR\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But it all started in the postwar period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 1957, businessman Momofuku Ando (yes, the namesake of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120012206\">Chef David Chang's beloved restaurants\u003c/a>) decided he wanted to invent an industrial take on freshly made ramen – the stuff Chang has helped make trendy again — for his hungry, budget-minded compatriots using surplus wheat donated by the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took Ando years to perfect the process of making a dry block of noodles. But ultimately he succeeded by applying the \"principle of tempura:\" steaming and dousing the noodles in chicken broth, and then bathing them in hot oil. This dried them out, and made them shelf-stable, but also easy to rehydrate. He added the winning combination of MSG, salt and sugar (which now comes in a flavor packet) to round out the flavor. 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And that helps explain why ramen have become a staple of the world's undernourished, and part of some humanitarian food aid packages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palm is the industry's oil of choice because it's cheap, it can withstand high heat, and it has a longer shelf life than other oils. But in the U.S., \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/07/25/205486197/palm-oil-in-the-food-supply-what-you-should-know\">we're told to eat palm oil sparingly\u003c/a> because it raises bad LDL cholesterol levels. So is it really wise for so many people around the world to be so reliant on instant ramen for sustenance? Why can't the urban poor eat something more nutritious than this highly processed, high-fat food?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, that would be ideal, the authors say, but the reality is that in many global cities, the urban poor lack affordable alternatives that are more healthful than ramen. \"How are you going to feed these people?\" says Gewertz. \"I would love to feed them with fruits and vegetables at the local markets, but they are expensive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_68599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1120px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/ramen2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/ramen2.jpg\" alt=\"Passengers eat instant noodles at the railway station in Shenyang, China in January 2013. Photo: YANG XINYUE/Xinhua /Landov\" width=\"1120\" height=\"839\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68599\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers eat instant noodles at the railway station in Shenyang, China in January 2013. Photo: YANG XINYUE/Xinhua /Landov\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The authors say that \"real food\" advocates like journalist Michael Pollan, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89876927\">wring their hands\u003c/a> over rising consumption of industrial food like ramen, raise important questions about its perils. But the authors also call ramen a \"virtually unstoppable\" phenomenon. And they foresee a world of 9 billion people \"in which the affluent will be presented with too many food choices and [will be] called upon to use their survival skills to choose wisely, and in which the poor will have to use their survival skills to get by on cheap food\" like ramen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'd love to take Michael Pollan to a squatter settlement and have him deal with poor, hungry people in such circumstances, who have no choice of going back home to grow subsistence crops or be part of a regional food system,\" says Gewertz. \"Subsistence agriculture is hard, dirty and hot work. People want out of it. It's not to be over romanticized.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, as Gerwertz tells us, a better way to help the poor who rely on ramen is to make the noodles more nutritious: they could be \"reduced-sodium, lower-fat, higher-fiber, better fortified,\" though that will also translate into a slightly higher price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We find it difficult to image the increasingly urbanized food future without this humble form of salt, MSG-enhanced, oily and sometimes sugary\" food, they write. But \"we conclude [that it's for the best] with great reluctance.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_68557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1120px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/avocado-full.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/avocado-full.jpg\" alt=\"We found lots of avocados being sold six or 10 to a $1 bag in the San Francisco area. Some weighed less than three ounces. Photo: Alistair Bland/NPR\" width=\"1120\" height=\"839\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68557\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">We found lots of avocados being sold six or 10 to a $1 bag in the San Francisco area. Some weighed less than three ounces. Photo: Alistair Bland/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Alistair Bland, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/08/19/212330603/incredibly-shrinking-avocados-why-this-years-fruit-are-so-tiny\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (8/19/2013)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's thick-skinned and leathery, about the size of an egg, essential for guacamole and sold eight for a dollar?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No—not limes. Hass avocados. This year, anyway. These pear-sized fruits usually weigh half a pound or more. In the summer of 2013, though, hundreds of thousands of trees in southern California are sagging with the tiniest Hass avocados in local memory—some just the size of a golf ball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main reason for the lemon-sized fruits, sources say, is a very unusual growing year that consisted of low winter rainfall in early 2012 (avocados spend more than a full year developing on the tree), erratic bee activity during the late spring bloom period, and lots of unseasonably cool and cloudy weather in the year since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can't ever remember a season when the all the avocados were this small, and that's over 30 years in the business,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://avocadogrowing.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Charley Wolk\u003c/a>, a farmer with orchards in San Diego and Riverside counties. He cites a lack of rain and late pollination back in the spring of 2012 as main factors in the little avocados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By most accounts, the fruits are about 30 percent smaller than usual. \"That means less per pound wholesale,\" Wolk says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avocados larger or smaller than what is considered normal are generally less attractive to consumers, he says, and, therefore, command less money per pound. About eight ounces, Wolk says, is the optimal — and average — weight of a California Hass. A 25-pound case of such fruits usually draws $1.20 cents per pound, according to Wolk. With each ounce less in average fruit size, the per-pound rate can drop by 30 cents, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the positive tradeoff, says Wolk, is that this year's crop consists of more individual fruits than usual and, in fact, will probably weigh in at more than usual. Wolk says a half-billion pounds of fruit are expected by the end of October. Most years, the California avocado harvest — 95 percent of which is of the Hass variety — tips the scales at around 400 million pounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ucanr.edu/?facultyid=144\">Gary Bender\u003c/a>, a University of California avocado specialist and farm adviser in San Diego County, says that most years, several months after pollination, high July temperatures cause many fruits to drop off the branches. But that, he says, didn't occur in the summer of 2012. The resulting abundance of individual fruits on each tree, combined with low rainfall, cool temperatures and sluggish photosynthesizing, has likely caused the stunting. Bender says that in 29 years on the job he has not seen such tiny avocados as those being picked this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several growers told The Salt that 2013's avocados are weighing mostly 5 to 6 ounces — but that could be a generous overestimate. We collected avos at several randomly selected grocery stores in San Francisco, and at each location — all independent, Asian-American owned shops — we found numerous avocados, being sold six or 10 to a $1 bag, that weighed in at less than three ounces, and several less than two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's just ridiculous,\" Bender notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_68558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1120px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/avocado2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/avocado2.jpg\" alt=\"This season's avocados are the smallest in memory. We found some that were as tiny as 47 grams. Photo: Alistair Bland/NPR\" width=\"1120\" height=\"840\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68558\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This season's avocados are the smallest in memory. We found some that were as tiny as 47 grams. Photo: Alistair Bland/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jim Donovan, with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.missionpro.com/\">Mission Produce Company\u003c/a>, a fruit wholesaler in Oxnard, says that harvesting two-ounce fruits is likeliest to occur toward the end of the picking season, which wraps up in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some growers, he explains, may selectively harvest bigger avocados all season and meanwhile wait for the smaller ones to grow larger. Avocados, unlike other fruits, can continue to gain size for months until one decides to pick them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But eventually the farmer can't wait any longer, because the tree will drop the fruit, so they do what we call a 'strip-pick,' and take every avocado left hanging,\" Donovan says. These tiny fruits may draw less than half the wholesale price of normal-sized avocados. Cases of exceptionally large avocados—sometimes 14 or 16 ounces each—can also draw less per pound, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elisabeth Silva, San Diego County's agricultural crime prosecutor who deals every year in a number of avocado theft cases, says there could be foul play behind the sudden flood of tiny avos. She describes a sly method of insider theft by which harvesting crews sometimes receive orders to only pick fruits larger than a certain size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So, sometimes they'll put those bigger fruits in the bins and they'll skim off the undersized fruits for themselves and sell them on the side,\" Silva says. These, she adds, can get \"laundered into legitimate commerce.\" She says that while tiny avocados, sold in unmarked bags, could very well be stolen, grocers generally have no role in, or knowledge of, such illicit activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmers and other fans of bigger avocados may get relief next year, when industry experts expect this spring's relatively low number of newly set fruits to result in fewer but larger avocados. Meanwhile, the little avocados of 2013 won't hurt you a bit. Donovan at Mission Produce points out that size and price may be down, but that quality is just fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're willing to cut 10 pieces instead of two to make your guacamole, then you've got a bargain,\" he says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org\">NPR\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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We collected avos at several randomly selected grocery stores in San Francisco, and at each location — all independent, Asian-American owned shops — we found numerous avocados, being sold six or 10 to a $1 bag, that weighed in at less than three ounces, and several less than two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's just ridiculous,\" Bender notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_68558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1120px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/avocado2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/avocado2.jpg\" alt=\"This season's avocados are the smallest in memory. We found some that were as tiny as 47 grams. Photo: Alistair Bland/NPR\" width=\"1120\" height=\"840\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68558\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This season's avocados are the smallest in memory. We found some that were as tiny as 47 grams. 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