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Buycott: New App Empowers Buyers to Vote with Their Wallets

By Lauren Saria Mon., May 20 2013 at 6:00 AM
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Corporate America, like, totally sucks, man. And the worst part is it's such an incestuous labyrinth of subsidiaries owned by billionaire industrialists that it's hard to know which products are "safe" to buy and which might mean giving your money to a cause that's completely against your principles.

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- Chow Bella's 5 Favorite Food and Drink Apps

But thanks to the miracle of technology, that doesn't have to be the case anymore.


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$200,000 of BP Oil Spill Recovery Funds Will Pay for Top Chef to Come to New Orleans

By Lauren Saria Fri., May 17 2013 at 6:00 AM
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After the BP oil spill in 2010, the company created a $300 million fund to promote Louisiana tourism. Now a chunk of that change will go to Bravo's Top Chef.
Remember when BP dumped a crapload of oil into the Gulf? Well in a giant statement of "sorry 'bout it," they created a sizeable fund to help boost tourism in the state of Louisiana over 18 months. And if you're curious where all that money went at least part of the answer is to Bravo's hit TV show Top Chef.

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- Welcome Diner: A Phoenix Roadside Stop by Way of New Orleans
- Anthony Bourdain Has Some Corrections For The Reissue of Kitchen Confidential


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Scientists Created a $325,000 Test Tube Burger -- But Would You Eat In Vitro Meat?

By Lauren Saria Thu., May 16 2013 at 6:00 AM
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Test tube burgers might sound like science fiction, but the reality could be coming to a store near you.
The good news is we officially can stop stressing about the existence and safety of cloned meat. The bad news is that's because scientists have moved onto bigger (and better?) things.

Namely, in vitro meat.

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- Insects Are an Untapped Source of Food and Could Help End Hunger, According to U.N. Report

Crazy as it might sound, the idea of edible "meat" creations is far from fiction. A scientist working in the Netherlands has already produced a hamburger patty out made of thin strips of beef tissue that he grew in a lab. Granted, the five-ounce patty cost a small fortune to make, but in vitro meat supporters say large-scale manufacturing could be heading our way.


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Extreme Honeybee Losses Could Threaten U.S. Food Supply

By Lauren Saria Wed., May 15 2013 at 6:00 AM
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Honeybees are in danger, and that could mean serious issues for our food supply.
Pesticides, drought, and a dwindling food supply -- just some of the possible reasons for the loss of nearly one-third of the country's honeybee colonies last winter. Living in Arizona, where Africanized honeybees recently stung a man to death, we might be inclined to celebrate.

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- Emily Brown, Arizona's "Queen Bee," Talks Honey

But the truth is bees, at least generally, do a lot more good than harm. In fact, research estimates that one in every three bites of food consumed in the United States is pollinated by bees. And without an adequate bee population, farmers say they simply can't make do.


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Insects Are an Untapped Source of Food and Could Help End Hunger, According to U.N. Report

By Lauren Saria Tue., May 14 2013 at 6:00 AM
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Fried crickets in Cambodia
Eating bugs to solve world hunger? It might sound a little dramatic (can't we just, like, grow more crops or something?!), but a new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations suggests just that.

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- Five Freaky Fair Foods: Maggot Melt Sandwich, Deep-Fried Energy Drinks, Chocolate-Dipped Pickles and More Coming to Arizona Next Week

So, fried beetle, anyone?


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Adorable Alert: Watch (in Slow Motion) Kids Try Vegemite, Gherkin, and Lemon for the First Time

By Lauren Saria Mon., May 13 2013 at 6:00 AM
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Still from The First Taste
I still make that face when I taste lemon.
"It's funny how raw a child's reaction to something is. There's no filter. It's just really physical and that's what I love about it," said Matt Gilmour, creative director at marketing agency Saatchi & Saatchi.

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- Chow Bella's "First Tastes"

The company, along with production company Heckler, made a video called "The First Taste." It's a two-and-a-half minute reel of kids as they experience a range of foods for the first time. Oh, yeah, and it's in slow motion. If that sounds adorable, that's because it is. We dare you not to crack a smile.

Happy Monday!


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Is There Such a Thing as a Foodstagram Eating Disorder? Researcher Says Yes

By Lauren Saria Fri., May 10 2013 at 6:00 AM
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Is your obsession with foodstagramming bad for your health?
If you don't think that taking and sharing photos of food is a big deal, open your eyes. It's become a big enough issue that some restaurants have started to impose an unofficial ban on the practice, saying tabletop photogs are turning the dining floor into a circus.

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- Caution: Food Porn May Be Hazardous to Your Health
- Ten Instagram-ers for the Phoenix Food Lover to Follow

But besides being annoying (at least, at times) the growing obsession with food, one researcher says, could be indicative of larger health problems. That's right, your foodstagram habit might mean you have real issues.

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Monster Beverage Sued San Francisco, Now the City's Suing Back

By Lauren Saria Thu., May 9 2013 at 6:00 AM
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There's a legal battle brewing in California, where the San Francisco city attorney sued Monster Beverage earlier this week for marketing its drinks to children. This comes after Monster Beverage sued the city last week in federal court, accusing San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera of overstepping his boundaries for trying to make the company scale back its marketing efforts and the levels of caffeine in its drinks.

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- Shocking: Drinking Too Many Energy Drinks Linked to Increase in ER Visits


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And the Lay's Do Us a Flavor Winner Is . . .

By Lauren Saria Wed., May 8 2013 at 6:00 AM
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Remember when we taste-tested the Lay's Do Us a Flavor potato chips? Well, our vote went out for the Chicken and Waffles variety -- and not just because the mastermind behind the flavor, Christina Abu-Judom, hails from Phoenix.

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- Lay's "Do Us a Flavor" Taste Test: Sriracha, Cheesy Garlic Bread or Chicken & Waffles?
- Phoenix Resident Who Submitted Chicken & Waffles as New Lay's Potato Chip Flavor Now Poised to Win One Million Bucks

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Have You Seen PETA's Newest Animal Sex Ad to Recruit Vegans? (NSFW)

By Lauren Saria Tue., May 7 2013 at 6:00 AM
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This isn't the first time PETA has gotten sexy to try to persuade people to give up meat or fur or whatever else they want to deprive people of. But its newest ad, created for a PETA Europe campaign, isn't even trying to be subtle with its graphic imagery of animals, ahem, getting it on.

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- Vegan Strip Club (NSFW Obviously)

Exactly how humping rabbits relates to going vegan we're not entirely sure, but the slogan, "Do it like they do," is supposed to encourage people to go vegan because eating a plant-based diet will make you as horny as a rhino in heat.


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