archive for the 'Contaminated food' Category

RIP crap beef

by @ Wednesday, February 27th, 2008.

“No grilling, no barbecue: Recalled beef buried in landfill” was the lede story of my local paper in Livingston, Montana, this evening. The Livingston Enterprise led with a large photo of a front end loader burying recalled Hallmark/Westland beef.

Another downer: The school lunch program

by @ Tuesday, February 19th, 2008.

This weekend’s big news, as Bonnie has already reported, was the massive recall of beef processed by Chino, CA-based Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing company. There has been much well-deserved coverage of the animal cruelty aspects of this story and a general tip of the mainstream media hat to the debacle’s food-safety implications: downer cattle, as the […]

143 million pounds of beef recalled — but not to worry

by @ Sunday, February 17th, 2008.

The USDA’s largest-ever recall is now under way — “approximately 143,383,823 pounds” (give or take a few ounces?) of raw and frozen beef products from the disgraced Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Co. in Chino, California. That’s almost half the amount of beef and poultry recalled since 1994 in the United States.

Mini-Digest: Biotech giants lose appetite for hunger help, MS-apprehension, RIP Rusty Butz

by @ Friday, February 8th, 2008.

Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is doing around the world.

First major E. coli-related recall of 2008

by @ Sunday, January 13th, 2008.

Well, the meat’s from 2007, but why quibble when we have this exciting new graphic to guide your decision whether or not to eat a burger of questionable provenance?
Details: Rochester Meat of Minnesota is recalling approximately 188,000 pounds of ground beef products because — drumroll! —  they may be contaminated with E. coli […]

Digest - News: Complaints about Clinton campaigner in Iowa

by @ Sunday, December 30th, 2007.

Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.

Digest - News: Chickens hatching drug-resistant E. coli, clone-tracking proposal, food shortages

by @ Friday, December 21st, 2007.

Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.

Digest - Features: The bacterial Jungle, civic agriculture, China cracks down on food producers

by @ Friday, December 7th, 2007.

In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.

Digest - News: Seattle market bans HFCS, fertilizing Malawi, FDA bashes self

by @ Tuesday, December 4th, 2007.

Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.

Digest - News: Tomato pay raise endangered, Smithfield rejects clones, organic fish debated

by @ Thursday, November 29th, 2007.

Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.

Digest - Commentary: Leafy greens agreement not good for small farmers

by @ Saturday, November 17th, 2007.

Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.

Digest - Rural: Time looks at how we got here, water wars, Kansas has a plan

by @ Friday, November 16th, 2007.

A rural-centric news round-up contributed by our friends at the Center for Rural Affairs.

Digest - News: USDA loophole allows E. coli-positive beef to be sold, lots more news

by @ Sunday, November 11th, 2007.

Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.

Digest - News: Another day, another million pounds of beef recalled

by @ Sunday, November 4th, 2007.

Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.

Digest - Features: The ABCs of GM foods, Alice as the Sustainable Kitchen Fairy, clean-food catastrophe

by @ Sunday, October 21st, 2007.

In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.

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