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NRA Agrees to Date Change; Rahm Hopes to Update Zoning for Urban Farms

• After months of negotiations, the National Restaurant Association has agreed to stay in Chicago. Due to conflicts with the NATO/G8 meetings, the trade show will be held two weeks earlier than usual. [Crain’s]

• Apparently there is some legal confusion about urban farming, which has caused some headaches for organizations like Growing Power. Luckily, at a meeting at Iron Street Urban Farm in Bridgeport, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that the city would try to update the zoning code to allow for larger farms and also aquaponics. [WBEZ]

• Some French guy bought a bottle of wine for $123,000. We’re not even going to calculate how much that is per glass. [NYDN]

• As he awaits trial in a jail cell, deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is refusing to eat solid food. [Times of India]

• The hunger situation in the Horn of Africa has gotten so bad that the U.N. is conducting an emergency food airlift there; meanwhile, South Korea sent sacks of flour to aid the hungry in North Korea. [Voice of America; Korea JoongAng Daily]

• Turns out a lot of the produce scraps we toss — corn cobs, watermelon rinds, cauliflower leaves — are edible and quite tasty. [NYT]

• New York is not the only city with a food truck for dogs; there’s now one rolling in Miami, too. [Miami Herald]

NRA Agrees to Date Change; Rahm Hopes to Update Zoning for Urban Farms