Michel Nischan and assistants prepare herbs for his chopped herb salad. Allison Aubrey/NPR hide caption
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A coffee grower picks coffee fruits in a plantation near Montenegro in Quindio province, Colombia. Fair Trade USA wants to allow coffee from big estates like this one under its fair trade label. Jose Miguel Gomez/Reuters /Landov hide caption
A worker shovels cocoa beans drying in the sun for export, in Guiglo in western Ivory Coast. Ben Curtis/ASSOCIATED PRESS hide caption
A prep cook drops apple skins into a food scrap recycling container in San Francisco. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
Soybean farmers in Xiangfan, in central China's Hubei province. Reuters /Landov hide caption
For fans of TV chef Paula Deen (seen here in a photo from 2006), her appeal lies not in the recipes, but in that feeling that she's talking just to you. Courtesy of Food Network/AP hide caption
When is filtered honey really honey? The answer may lie in the politics of imported food. Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A Qantas jetliner takes off from Sydney Airport in Australia Oct. 31. Rick Rycroft/AP hide caption