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A roundup of M&A, partnership and funding deals for food startups focused on content, communities, commerce and analytics in February 2013.[...]
Food Genius launches restaurant menu trends service to give the food industry actionable product development and marketing insights, and it's impressive.[...]
Beef Stakes, an art project by ITP student Sarah Hallacher, offers a sensory examination of 2011 beef production and consumption data from the top 4 U.S. producing states: Nebraska[...]
A look at Food+Tech Connect's top 5 food and health infographics of 2012.[...]
As consumer distrust of food labels and food allergies grow, these researchers are developing iPhone tools that will bring transparency to your smartphone.[...]
This is a list of challenge briefs that will be covered by attendees at the Meat//Hack sessions.[...]
Food & Water Watch is convinced that we can’t shop our way out of our meat system problems – first we need to change the bad policy that has gotten us here.[...]
Food Genius argues that consumers aren't the only ones at fault for their trouble cooking. Food producers have become increasingly responsible.[...]
For the last few decades, we’ve all become familiar with the “Nutrition Facts” box that appears on the back of packaged food. But when you’re walking around the grocery store[...]
Earlier this year, corporate food giants Kraft and Nestlé Australia opened up their recipe and ingredient data to developers and consumers. While these are just first steps, we hop[...]
Information asymmetry puts consumers at a disadvantage. Investor Ali Partovi argues that enacting Prop 37 would "return us to a baseline of basic transparency from which a free mar[...]
The USAID recently held a hackathon focused on improving food security in developing nations. Many of the projects exhibited innovative uses of data, technology and mapping in orde[...]
The USDA is asking developers to create web-based tools and apps that make it easier for farmers, ranchers and others affected by the drought to get information on drought conditio[...]
This coming weekend, USAID is holding its first hackathon, Hacking for Hunger. It’s a chance for technologists, subject experts and others to build applications that a[...]
How often do you find yourself throwing away wilted greens or leftovers that have sat too long in your refrigerator? Probably a lot, according to a new NRDC report that shows the a[...]
The USDA is looking for input from the public to help determine the APIs and mobile optimized websites they should prioritize development of between now and May 23, 2013. [...]
Real Time Farms announced Sunday a new partnership with Food52. Through the partnership, the startup will explore new avenues for making their database of information about farms a[...]
Applegate Farms breaks down how Americans feel about what is in their hot dogs and what they put on them.[...]
Fujitsu announced yesterday that it will be launching “Akisai,” a cloud-based platform to improve management of Japan’s food and agriculture industries, this Octo[...]
The USDA is stepping up their online engagement and open data efforts with the Google+ Hangout and follow-up Twitter Chat they are hosting in conjunction with their updated Know Y[...]
Congresswoman Louise Slaughter of New York released the results from a survey of over 60 fast food, retail, production and grocery companies asking them about their policies on the[...]
Real Time Farms launched the FixAntibiotics Food Finder. The first of its kind map enables consumers to find retail locations, farmers markets, farms and restaurants selling meat [...]
In anticipation of the impending challenge of feeding 9 billion people by 2050 , the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Institute [...]
FixFood's Meat Without Drugs campaign breaks down how "superbugs" travel from the farm to you.
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New survey results from Consumer's Union indicate that 86 percent of the consumers think meat raised without antibiotics should be available in their local supermarket.[...]
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