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Food FYI: Egg farmers seek new rules for treatment of chickens

By Betty HallockDeputy Food Editor 

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EGGS ALLIANCE

California requires chicken farmers to give egg-laying birds enough room to stand and spread their wings. Now egg farmers, along with the Human Society, are seeking national standards. [Los Angeles Times]

‘GET SKINNIER’ MILLIONAIRE

A self-published gym instructor who wrote ‘Six Weeks to OMG: Get Skinnier Than All Your Friends’ and sparked a publishing bidding war lands multi-million-dollar book deals. [The Guardian]

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VEGAN ABS

PETA names the sexiest vegetarians of 2012. [PETA via SlashFood]

FOOD, CHARTED

Grain trading company Cargill charts changes in world food production since 1965. The growing deficit in Africa is astonishing. [The Economist]

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-- Betty Hallock

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Betty Hallock

Betty Hallock is deputy Food editor at the Los Angeles Times. She has co-written four cookbooks, including “Bäco: Vivid Recipes from the Heart of Los Angeles,” “Amá: A Modern Tex-Mex Kitchen” and “Baking at République.” She started her journalism career at the Wall Street Journal and Scientific American in New York, worked on the L.A. Times’ Business desk, and was interim food editor at Los Angeles Magazine. Hallock also helped launch a food and nutrition vertical for wellness app RoundGlass. She’s a graduate of UCLA and New York University.

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