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Brennan Starkey, Maryland's largest spinach farmer, is so confident that his spinach is safe and still very much nutritious that here he is, standing in the middle of his farm, packing the stuff into ...

The earthquake highlights our sometimes-irrational fears of unsafe food. Nuclear salad, anyone? Teruko Saka, 80-year-old farmer, weeds a spinach field in Moriya, Ibaraki prefecture, north of Tokyo, ...

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