Newsday: An NYU medicine professor does a terrific job of laying the blame for the E. coli outbreak at a new source — the opposing incentives of ranchers, farmers, and fertilizer suppliers. He points out how the system’s set up to maximize profits at every level, not to ensure safety or to forestall health threats.
More spinach:
Reuters: A second bag of spinach contaminated with E. coli has been found in Utah.
Excite News: Another company, Triple B., is recalling salad products, some of which were supplied by Natural Selection Foods.
Seattle P-I: Guest columnist Peter Rosset criticizes the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s investments in genetically modified seeds and its promotion of “technology packages that use irrigation, fertilizer and, not surprisingly, new seeds.” He compares the Gates Foundation initiative to the destructiveness of the original Green Revolution.
BBC: Ted Turner, speaking as the chairman of the United Nations Foundation, thinks that biofuels will solve stalled trade talks and farmers’ need for subsidies.
Seattle P-I: West Coast hospitals are prescribing more local, organic, and seasonal ingredients for their in-patient meals.
Kansas City Star: Kansas City does the 100-Mile Diet.
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