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Executive chef Shawn Fields promotes healthy vegetarian meal options each Monday at the Johns Hopkins Hospital Cobblestone Café.
Dave Love, PhD, CLF’s project director for Aquaculture and Environmental Public Health, at the Center’s Cylburn Aquaponics Demonstration Project in Baltimore. The indoor sustainable fish and vegetable facility will open in 2012.
Third graders at Baltimore's St. Ambrose Catholic School are proud of the school’s vegetable garden. CLF's Food and Faith Project helped to fund the garden.
CLF's Desmond Flagg, MPH, helped create the Farm Bill Budget Visualizer, an online tool to analyze the impact of the Farm Bill on public health.
Amanda Behrens, MPH, MS, manages the Maryland Food System Mapping Project. The project uses GIS technology to plot the state's food environment.
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This $4 million grant demonstrates a commitment to public health on the part of USDA, and the sidestepping maneuver, which will keep the momentum going despite legislative slowdowns (i.e., Farm Bill politics), further shows that USDA understands the importance of making fresh foods available to all citizens, while supporting U.S. farmers.
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Aquaculture seemed like a viable solution to overfishing—we would simply farm the fish, and not mess with the ecosystems. But salmon farmers have to feed the salmon they’re raising, and salmon is a hungry master.
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Farmed shrimp joins the list of animal proteins - pork, turkey, ground beef, and chicken - that contain drug-resistant bacteria.
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