In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
archive for the 'Contaminated food' Category
Digest - News: Seattle market bans HFCS, fertilizing Malawi, FDA bashes self
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
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
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
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
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
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
In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
Farm animal toys recalled for lead levels
Wal-Mart is recalling "realistic-looking" toy animals made in China because of excessive lead levels. The company’s independent testing revealed excessive levels of lead in the base material, not the surface coating. The animal sets were labeled "Farm Animals," "Dinosaurs," and "Jungle Animals." Wal-Mart says it thinks the manufacturer has sold them through other outlets as […]
Digest - News: GM corn could harm river ecosystems, microwaveable food safety, conservation coalition
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Digest - News: Bad pot pies; DDT linked to breast cancer; yo, Mexico — quiere Taco Bell?
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Digest - News: Bayer uncensured, another beef recall (yawn), fishy recommendations
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Getting to the heart of state meat inspection law
OK, I admit that I was just looking for an animal body part reference for that title. I am under no illusions that this post will get to the heart of much of anything. I am not an expert on state-inspected meat processing (though if it gives me any leverage, I have been inside a […]
Digest - News: Save our schoolkids (from their lunches), another E. coli outbreak, mass fish slaughter
A round-up of the most important news & commentary regarding SOLE- and anti-SOLE food issues, farming, policy, etc. that we think Ethicurean readers will want to know about.
Digest - News: Bluetongue outbreak in UK, transgenic sugar, recalled soy
The latest news & regarding SOLE-food issues, farming, policy, etc. that we think Ethicurean readers will want to know about.
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