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	<title>Slow Food Perth</title>
	<link>http://slowfoodperth.org.au</link>
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		<title>Food labelling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Food labelling hearings will be held in Perth on Wednesday 17th and Thursday 18th March, for further information follow this link. The State opposition agricultural spokesman Mick Murray is calling on the State Government to introduce labelling on products containing genetically modified food. See ABC news Monday 15th March
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		<link>http://slowfoodperth.org.au/2010/03/food-labelling/</link>
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		<title>Food, ethics and the environment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IN 2006 Princeton University ran a forum on food, ethics and the environment.  These stimulating forums were recorded live and can be seen at this link from Princeton University, scroll down to November 16th &#038; 17th 2006.  Slow Food Perth is intending to hold a forum on food issues at the end of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://slowfoodperth.org.au/2010/03/food-ethics-and-the-environment/</link>
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		<title>Urban food systems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[KIRSTEN Larsen, an expert in sustainable food system at the University of Melbourne, reports in the latest Ecomagazine January 2010 that if we change our understanding of cities and see them as productive not consumptive spaces, cities will be able to feed themselves in the future.  Read more from this issue which includes diverse [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://slowfoodperth.org.au/2010/03/urban-food-systems/</link>
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		<title>Full cream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MATTHEW Evans former restaurant critic and now farmer in Tasmania includes on his web site an article he wrote years ago about the milk from Billawara Dairy in Denmark, Western Australia.  Matthew&#8217;s interesting and evocative journey from chef to restaurant critic to farmer can be followed in the SBS program &#8220;Gourmet Farmer&#8221;.  His [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://slowfoodperth.org.au/2010/03/full-cream/</link>
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		<title>How to grow, when to grow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[INTERVIEWED on the 2nd March in Bush Telegraph Richard Stirzaker explains the scientists method of growing food especially in its relation to water.  Richard is also interviewed on the CSIRO about food production for future populations and appears on ABC Canberra Stateline talking about how he and his family shaped his overgrown backyard into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://slowfoodperth.org.au/2010/03/how-to-grow-when-to-grow/</link>
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		<title>Encouraging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CORBY Kummer, journalist and author, writes in detail in the &#8220;Atlantic&#8221; about Walmart&#8217;s&#8217; new program called &#8220;Heritage Agriculture&#8221;  This will encourage farms within a day’s drive of one of its warehouses to grow crops that now take days to arrive in trucks. In many cases the crops once flourished in the places where Walmart [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://slowfoodperth.org.au/2010/02/encouraging/</link>
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		<title>Oils ain&#8217;t Oils</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ABC Landline News today, 19th February 2010 reported that Oils ain&#8217;t Oils,  The Australian Olive Oil Industry is taking a stand against international oils masquerading as extra virgin olive oil. To find out more about the olive oil&#8217;s industry code of practice and taste testing watch Landline this Sunday 21st February.
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		<link>http://slowfoodperth.org.au/2010/02/oils-aint-oils/</link>
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		<title>Australia a fast food nation?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[REPORTED in the Australian Food News recently that even though more Australians are buying more equipment for their kitchens, less and less are interested in cooking.  Read further.
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		<link>http://slowfoodperth.org.au/2010/02/australia-a-fast-food-nation/</link>
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		<title>Jamie Oliver and TED</title>
		<description><![CDATA[JAMIE Oliver wins the 2010 prestigious TED prize, listen to his thought provoking acceptance speech.  He uses this speech to attack the global food giants for profiting from obesity without ever investing significantly in ways to address the worlds worsening health crisis.  Diet related diseases, which is a global problem, is the biggest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://slowfoodperth.org.au/2010/02/jamie-oliver-and-ted/</link>
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		<title>Dairy farming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ACCORDING to a report in the Farm Weekly the promised benefits to dairy farmers, processors and consumers over ten years ago has not materialised.  In Western Australia there are about 320 dairy farms that between them produce around 370 million litres of milk per year.  The main existing dairy regions are situated from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://slowfoodperth.org.au/2010/02/dairy-farming/</link>
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