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Topic: locavore movement

Cosmic Crisp apples, a new variety and the first-ever bred in Washington state, sit on the tree ready to be picked at an orchard in Wapato, Wash. The Cosmic Crisp, available beginning Dec. 1, is expected to be a game changer in the apple industry. Already, growers have planted 12 million Cosmic Crisp apple trees, a sign of confidence in the new variety. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

The Cosmic Crisp apple is not the future

Keith A. Spencer
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The future of food data, not desire

Manny Howard
Angelique Hakuzimana, displaced by war in her native Rwanda in 2009, talks with farm manager Zach Couture, right, in her garden at the Global Greens Farm, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014, in West Des Moines, Iowa. A growing interest from consumers to buy locally grown fruits and vegetables has provided a robust new market for refugees who have fled violence in their home countries and have found peace in farming small plots of land in cities across the United States. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) (AP)

Foodies changing the way America eats

Joshua T. Beck, Brandon Reich - The Conversation