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Stop importing illegal battery cage eggs!

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Battery cage eggs are illegal, but the government does not plan to check imported eggs or egg products.

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Prunes in Europe – do they make you go?

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The European Food Safety Agency doesn’t recognised the high-fibre quality of fruits such as berries, pomegranates and the infamous prune. South West MEP Graham Watson suggests a prune eating contest…

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Fancy a bit of clandestine cake? Join Devon's Clandestine Cake Club!

Clandestine Cake Club Devon

Food blogger Grazing Kate is looking to set up a Clandestine Cake Club in Devon

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Occombe Farm's new veggie box scheme – a few spaces left

Occombe Farm Veg Box

Occombe Farm, Torbay’s organic and educational farm, is offering a new veggie box scheme, and there are still a few places left

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Sidestep the supermarket chains for your oranges and clementines

Citrus fruit direct from the grower

Oranges and Clementines direct to your door from the grower. Caya Edwards sidesteps the supermarket chains to get her citrus fruit

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You are what you eat! MEPs vote for stricter rules on food labels but 'drop traffic light labelling'

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MEPs drop for controversial ‘traffic light labelling’ and go for stricter packaging labels to include more nutritional information and a ‘country of provenance’ indication. It’s good for consumers and South West producers says South West MEP Graham Watson

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What is land for? (You may be surprised at the answer. Clue: it's to do with food, fuel and climate change)

Exeter Univeristy’s Professor Michael Winter edited the book What is Land for? The Food, Fuel and Climate Change Debate, it includes contributions from more than 50 leading academics, including key researchers from the UK research councils’ Rural Economy and Land Use Programme

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