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Chef and food activist Alice Waters on Monday night made a big announcement: the University of California, on her advice, is planning a major initiative to address problems in food and farming. It will involve all 10 UC campuses and extend across California and around the globe. In part, it will be modeled on Waters’ famous Edible Schoolyard project at a middle school in Berkeley, which serves as a model for programs in other schools across the country that put the growing and cooking of food at the center of their academic curricula.

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Celebrity pigs are frog lovers, entertainers, spokesmen, best friends, sheep herders, family members, and even bloodthirsty mutant monsters. We’ve gathered some clips of pop culture’s most celebrated swine.