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Local Groups Receive Grants For Maintaining the Region’s Food Systems; Panera Misled Investors

• Greensgrow Farms, MANNA, Weavers Way and the Pennsylvania Association of Sustainable Agriculture are among the group of local food and nutrition organizations credited for securing the region’s food systems that received grants totaling $480,000 from the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission. [Inquirer]

• Here’s an oops: British airline EasyJet is in the doghouse after offering ham and bacon sandwiches on a London-to-Israel flight, with the none of the usual kosher or vegetarian options. [CNN]

• See video of one of the small group of livestock farmers trying to bring back the American bison. The meat is healthier than beef and American-raised, he says. And hey, you never hear of mad bison disease! [HuffPo]

• We never knew Panera had a (now-discontinued) pizza line, Crispani, and evidently neither did a lot of other people: The company just settled a lawsuit claiming it inflated Crispani’s success to investors. [NRN]

• After recent grain-price surges, wheat dropped precipitously yesterday as speculators cut their estimates owing to recent political uprisings in grain-importing North African and Middle Eastern countries, and escalating violence in Libya. [Bloomberg]

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