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Thursday, September 23, 2010

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The Boston Local Food Festival is coming up on October 2.


When is your favorite produce "in season" ? Check out this availability calendar.


Need help building your organic garden? Check out Green City Growers, a local company that does all the heavy lifting to get your garden growing. Now you have no excuses!


On October 10, 2010, (10/10/10) organizations and individuals around the world will be taking actions to raise awareness about climate change and how to stop it. See 350.org to get involved.


Do you know what's really in your food? Find out at Food Facts.com.
You can look up those hard-to-pronounce ingredients and find out what they're all about. I looked up an easy-to-pronounce one and this is what I learned:

"RED 40 ... Artificial coloring: Soda pop, candy, gelatin desserts, pastry, sausage. The most widely used food dye. While this is one of the most-tested food dyes, the key mouse tests were flawed and inconclusive. An FDA review committee acknowledged problems, but said evidence of harm was not "consistent" or "substantial." Like other dyes, Red 40 is used mainly in junk foods. Ref : Center for science in the public interest. Banned in Denmark, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria and Norway."





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