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  • 14
    Sep
    2012
    9:15am, EDT

    A kid's worst nightmare? Giant vegetables compete for top prize

    Christopher Furlong / Getty Images

    Weightlifter Jonathan Walker from Harrogate poses as he lifts a marrow weighing 119lbs 12oz which won the Giant Marrow Class in the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show on Sept. 14, in Harrogate, England. The giant marrow was grown by Peter Glazebrook, from Newark, who won all six classes in the giant vegetable competition during the show at The Great Yorkshire Showground.

    Christopher Furlong / Getty Images

    Vegetable gardener Peter Glazebrook wheels his giant cabbage, which weighs 81lbs and 6ozs, through the annual Harrogate Autumn Flower Show on Sept. 14, in Harrogate, England. Peter Glazebrook, from Newark, won all six classes in the giant vegetable competition during the show at The Great Yorkshire Showground.

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    I could use their gardening tips....

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  • 8
    Jun
    2011
    2:12pm, EDT

    Vegetables discarded, mulched over E. coli fears in Europe

    Francisco Bonilla / Reuters

    A digger mixes discarded vegetables with compost in a pile of vegetable residue at the Albahida vegetable recycling plant in Nijar, in the southern Spanish region of Almeria, June 8.

    Francisco Bonilla / Reuters

    A worker unloads discarded vegetables at the Albahida vegetable recycling plant in Nijar, in the southern Spanish region of Almeria, June 8.

    Michael Probst / AP

    Farmer Mario Walter mulches thousands of salads on his field in Nieder-Erlenbach near Frankfurt, June 8, 2011. After an outbreak of E. coli that has killed at least 25 people and sickened hundreds in Europe, salads and other vegetables can hardly be sold in Germany.

    Michael Probst / AP

    Farmer Mario Walter mulches thousands of salads on his field in Nieder-Erlenbach near Frankfurt, June 8. After an outbreak of E. coli that has killed at least 25 people and sickened hundreds in Europe, salads and other vegetables can hardly be sold in Germany.

    Francisco Bonilla / Reuters

    A digger unloads discarded vegetables into a pile of vegetable residue at the Albahida vegetable recycling plant in Nijar, in the southern Spanish region of Almeria, June 8.

    Related content:

    • Full story: E. coli outbreak slows but more deaths expected
    • PhotoBlog: Tons of cucumbers discarded over E. coli fears

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    What does this do to global food prices? As they are willing to pay more for imported vegetables...

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  • 6
    Jun
    2011
    12:34pm, EDT

    Tons of cucumbers discarded over E. coli fears

    Bogdan Cristel / Reuters

    Workers throw away cucumbers to be destroyed at an agriculture facility near Bucharest on Monday, June 6, as sales collapsed in Romania's markets due to the fear of E. coli contamination. The workers from this facility are destroying about 1500 tons of harvested cucumbers from the last three days, despite negative E. coli laboratory tests. The outbreak, centred on the north German city of Hamburg, has made more than 1,500 people ill in eight European countries, and led to an international row over the source of the contamination.

    Stephane Mahe / Reuters

    Cucumbers are spread on a field to be used as fertilizer by French farmers who are unable to sell their produce in Carquefou near Nantes, western France, on Monday. Authorities in Germany have yet to pinpoint the exact source of the three-week outbreak that has killed 22 people in Europe and stricken more than 2,200 in a dozen countries -- all of whom had been travelling in northern Germany. So far, bean sprouts, cucumbers, tomatoes and lettuce have all been suspected of spreading the EHEC bacteria (enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli) bacteria.

    Robert Ghement / EPA

    A Romanian farm boy throws another case of cucumbers onto a huge pile waiting to be taken away as waste at an agriculture facility in Popesti Leordeni, near Bucharest, Romania, on Monday. Romanian vegetable producers are suffering from loss of sales as a consequence of the EHEC bacteria. Today the workers from Leordeni faility were throwing the last three days' fresh cucumbers production, amounting to 1,500 tons, despite the E. coli lab analyses showing negative. The E. coli outbreak centered in northern Germany has spread to 11 other countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. Romanian farmers are asking the government to find a way of compensating them due to the losses caused by E coli hysteria.

    Jacques Brinon / AP

    A farm worker empties cucumbers into a container, before dispersing them in a field, after failing to sell them due an ongoing food crisis in Europe, in Carquefou, western France, on Monday. The current crisis is the deadliest E. coli outbreak in modern history, and the outbreak is being blamed on a highly aggressive, "super-toxic" strain of E. coli.

    Related stories:

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  • 24
    May
    2011
    11:23am, EDT

    Tomoyuki Kaya / EPA

    Women buy vegetables produced in Fukushima at the Shinjuku station in Tokyo, Japan on May 24. Fukushima's vegetables are sold and promoted in Japan as being safe amid fear of nuclear contamination.

    Japanese shoppers buy Fukushima vegetables in show of solidarity

    By David R Arnott, NBC News

    The full consequences of the disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are still being determined. Just today, the plant's operator confirmed there had been meltdowns of fuel rods at three of its reactors in the early days of the crisis.

    Local farmers have been badly affected, despite tests having proven that the soil outside a 30 km zone around the plant is safe for farming. As we reported on April 1st:

    The Fukushima farm sector, which once proudly put the prefecture's name on its rice, fruits and vegetables that went to market, will face the burden of trying to sell its products now that the Fukushima name is synonymous with nuclear disaster.

    The scene above, then, represents a glimmer of hope. At a market stall in Tokyo's Shinjuku train station, the vendors proudly proclaimed that their vegetables had been grown in the Fukushima region, and shoppers - at least some shoppers - appeared happy to purchase them in a spirit of solidarity.

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    Wow these women are brave! I hope they don't get really sick. I'd choose foods that fight radiation protection instead! I pray these people remain healthy.

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  • 4
    Feb
    2011
    5:26am, EST

    Parivartan Sharma / Reuters

    Farmers work in a cucumber field in New Delhi on Friday, Feb. 4.

    Farming a cucumber field in India

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  • 18
    Jan
    2011
    4:38am, EST

    Mukesh Gupta / Reuters

    A woman vendor carries white radish for sale at a vegetable market in Jammu, Jan. 18. India battled double-digit inflation through most of 2010, the highest rate of any major Asian economy. Spiralling food and fuel prices have damaged voter confidence in the government led by the Congress Party and highlighted stresses in the multi-party coalition.

    Radishes for sale at vegetable market in India

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  • 6
    Jan
    2011
    11:45am, EST

    Rupak De Chowdhuri / Reuters

    A farmer transports vegetables on an improvised tricycle towards a wholesale market in Kolkata, Jan. 6.

    Vegetables to go

    By Elena Grothe

    I like the surprise flash of hot pink covering the farmer's face.

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    Is that a modified car or a modified motorcycle or something being made somewhere? Like the bag hanging off the bike.

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