Grist: Tom Philpott joins Pollan in blaming the latest E. coli outbreak on consolidation of production, and says we should keep eating small-farm spinach while we rethink industrial agriculture.
DailyIndia.com: The Supreme Court of India says no to GMOs until further notice, heeding the pleas from petitioners to reconsider a process that could be the “fastest and riskiest experiment anywhere with irreversible impacts on our farmers, their crop choices, our food and health.”
Forbes: A court in India has lifted the bans of Pepsi and Coke some estates had enacted after unacceptably high levels of pesticides were found in the sodas. India’s Center for Science and Environment is not pleased, saying the drinks are still unsafe.
E Magazine: Whole Foods has just installed a solar power system on a store in Connecticut that’s five times larger than the second-largest solar such system in the state. Sad aside: It generates only 10% of the store’s electricity needs.
PR NewsWire: This is the second day in row we’ve mentioned Bon Appétit Management Company of Palo Alto, which runs tons of institutional food-service operations (aka corporate cafeterias), but we’re not shilling for them. On October 3, 400 Bon Appetit sites across the country will serve a lunch made entirely of ingredients sourced within 150 miles of each kitchen. We just think if you have access to one, you should try to eat there Tuesday.
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