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by Jonell Galloway
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Black and white chocolate cocktail dress, Salon du Chocolate 2011, Zurich, Switzerland.
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by Jonell Galloway
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An admirable new initiative by Meat & Livestock Australia, Target 100, aims to deliver sustainable cattle and sheep farming in Australia by 2020.
Sustainability is no recent thing for the Australian meat industry, which has been investing in environmental research and development for many years. By implementing a selection of 100 individual research, development, and extension initiatives which will be funded through the various meat industry organisations. The industry intends to focus this and reduce the resources it uses, thus reducing its footprint, improving its efficiency, and providing a focal point for environmental, social and ethical farming action in order to to ensure a sustainable food source.

Professor Tim Flannery - Target 100 launch
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A film by Marija Jacimovic and Benoit Detalle
[youtube http://youtu.be/WvyV_idFAZA nolink]
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Don’t miss Mark Bittman‘s “Thanksgiving as a model for sustainable cooking” in The New York Times.

The one thing that is different about Thanksgiving is that we are less wasteful. For the rest of the year, Americans have a record for throwing out at least 40% of their food, while even before Thanksgiving we are figuring out what do do with all the leftovers. Perhaps we should make this our model for the rest of the year.
…The holiday also contains a solution to one of our greatest problems today: our eating. We’re finding it incredibly hard to feed ourselves the way we want. It’s not, as many think, because food is so expensive or we’re so short on time, but because we have a perspective on cooking that impedes our getting real value from our ingredients, or the most from our time.
On Thanksgiving, though, we get it right.
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