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In the midst of an obesity epidemic and health care reform, more people are taking a closer look at what they are consuming. In an effort to put their health into their own hands, many are turning to organic food.

Men's Health magazine editor Matt Bean took a closer look at the health benefits of going organic and shared them with The Early Show.

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Here, Executive Director of the Northeast Organic Dairy Producers Alliance Ed Maltby explains the history behind the final pasture rule, highlights its key provisions, and explains what these provisions mean for organic consumers.

Financial blogger Felix Salmon has an essay in Foreign Policy called "How Locavores Can Save the World" -- expanded, by the way, from a wonderful blog post he wrote after attending a panel discussion on world hunger at the Davos World Economic Forum in the company of Blue Hill Farm's Dan Barber. Salmon usually focuses on issues involving economic crises, monetary policy, complex derivatives, macro-economics, and governmental oversight of the financial markets, but here he's talking monocultures, sustainable agriculture, and transgenic seeds.

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There are three things on which the mighty engine of U.S. agriculture depends: water, fuel, and synthetic nitrogen. Like water, nitrogen is elemental to life. It's the essential building block of the plants we eat. Farmers remove it from the soil when they harvest the year's crop, and they must replenish it for the following year's.

Many natural grocery stores carry both all natural and organic items, leaving some customers who want to go green wondering what the differences between the two are. Most people point to the USDA's definitions to determine the main characteristics for each type of food, but there's more to it than that.

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The environment is one of the many reasons why people buy organic foods. they want to do their part so that they can cut down on environmental pollution. Conventional foods allow the use of herbicides, pesticides, and other synthetic materials that aren’t good for our water supplies or the air we breathe. It isn’t just humans that are affected either because animals that live in the bodies of water out there can be harmed.

In a world dominated by agribusiness giant Monsanto, is it possible to live without Genetically Modified Organisms?

For one month, I’m going to give it a shot.

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