archive for October 24th, 2006

Digest: FDA Commish pleads guilty, restoring faith in California produce, and more

by Ethicurean @ Tuesday, October 24th, 2006.

New York Times*: For our fox/henhouse files — former FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford pleaded guilty last Tuesday to lying about stocks he owned in food, beverage and medical device companies he was in charge of regulating.
San Jose Mercury News*: Nutritionist and “What to Eat” author Marion Nestle has an op-ed about what it’s going to […]

Oly’s Pear Pie

by JC Costello aka Man of La Muncha @ Tuesday, October 24th, 2006.

One of the challenges of being half a blogging couple is that we discuss ideas, and then the first person scheduled to write in a week tends to use up those ideas. You wake, thinking idly of the post that is due the following day, only to discover that the other person has written […]

Who you calling sensitive? Liberally applied meat labels

by Bonnie P. @ Tuesday, October 24th, 2006.

The New York Times has a rather cynical, market-oriented take on Whole Foods’ soon-to-be-debuting Animal Compassionate standards for meat, which join “free farmed,” “certified humane,” and other labels as a way for consumers to differentiate what treatment is acceptable to them. Such consumers, according to the article, are “sensitive carnivores,” foodies, and “recyclers.”
(What about blond-dreadlocked […]

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