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Nanofarms, certain crops and Mediterranean diets + this day in history w/'Paradise Lost' and our song of the day by Sun Club on your Morning Monarchy for April 27, 2016.

Suing Monsanto, automated restaurants and defensive food + this day in history w/the Enabling Act and our song of the day by PJ Harvey on your Morning Monarchy for March 23, 2016.

Tap water trust, smart chocolate and big dumb food + this day in history w/Emergency Banking Act and our song of the day by Tom Waits on your Morning Monarchy for March 9, 2016.

Hacking Hillary, solar eclipse and robot waiters + this day in history w/MH370 and our song of the day by Basia Bulat on your Morning Monarchy for March 8, 2016.

If you want true food transparency, there’s nothing better than knowing that your food was grown at a farm within 5 miles from your home, or that your favorite wine comes from a winery across the beaten path. Now, France’s National Assembly (upper chamber of Parliament) wants to make local food an imperative with a law that requires 40% of all food served in ‘collective restaurants’ to be sourced locally.

Just days after some restaurants in New York City started putting warnings on their menus about the high salt content of certain dishes, an industry group has filed a lawsuit accusing health regulators of overstepping their legal bounds in enacting the first-of-its-kind requirement.

Three-hundred and fifty federal government cafeterias will enjoy ‘low-antibiotic’ food starting at the beginning of 2016, and during a White House summit on antibiotic use last week, voluntary pledges from 150 food processors, restaurant chains, hospitals, and drug companies vowing to phase out the use of meat from animals treated regularly with antibiotics will change the food landscape for the better.