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Digest: Poisoned pet food, E. coli CSI fails, Puck the trend
Possible pet food culprit: Rat poison has been found in the tainted pet food that killed several animals and sparked a nationwide recall. Frankly, we're surprised they were bothering to poison the rats, instead of grinding them up into pet food. USA Today Whoops, Comments Off • Read more »
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Feed your ears with some foodie Web radio
Sierra Club Radio has a food-centric heavy lineup this week (MP3), kicking off with journalist Eric Schlosser, followed by tips for choosing nontoxic
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Digest: Puck goes Ethicurean, watery news, organic ag shortage
Bravo to Wolfgang Puck!: The L.A. restauranteur is taking foie gras, battery eggs, and meat from caged animals off the menu at all of his 14 fine-dining restaurants, 82 casual cafes, and his packaged food business. He'll also only sell seafood from certified sustainable fisheries, and will incorporate
Digest: Farm Bill funding battle, Straus in Time, tragedy of the commons applies to whole Earth
First salvo in budget battle: The Senate Budget Committee chair issued his blueprint for federal spending yesterday, which included $15 billion more for Farm Bill agriculture spending between 2007 and 2012 than did the Congressional Budget Office baseline. Senate Ag Chair Tom Harkin says that's not enough
Digest: Meaty issues, Gunther on garbage, secrets of seed-free citrus
Not a pig step for mankind, yet: Eliminating sow-gestation crates is just the first tiny step toward humane meat production in this country, says Nicolette Hahn Niman (yes, that Niman) in her op-ed condemning hog factories' typical practices. New
Digest: Judge stops sale of GM seeds, FDA’s guidelines mocked, organic cloned kids update
Batten the hatches, there's a deluge o'links today. MAJOR NEWS: Following on his decision last month that the USDA failed to take seriously concerns that genetically altered seeds could migrate to other alfalfa crops, U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer in San Francisco has ordered that the sale of
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Digest: Chemical “obesogens,” Caruso Q&A, toddler tricks, Windy City CSA guide
Another reason processed food may make us fat: Some preliminary research is indicating that environmental exposure to common chemicals — including pesticides and those used in food and beverage containers — may trigger obesity. The NIH's National Toxicology Program is reviewing bisphenol A, a chemical
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Digest: U.S. farmers mad over GM rice, Bee-t hypothesis, FDA fights back
Rice flows: Rick Weiss has another excellent feature, this time on rice farmers' frustration over seeds' contamination with genetically modified varieties unapproved for human consumption. Biotech proponents are asking "what's the big deal?" and claiming no harm has come to human health. (But since U.S.
Digest: Victory gardens, Gallo gone, bee-plague finger-pointing, Calif. caviar
Growing food is an art: Amy Franceschini, a San Francisco graphic designer and visual artist, is trying to revive the victory gardens planted during World War II. San Francisco Chronicle The man who gave us Thunderbird
Digest: Meat eating insights, French frommage fracas, NYT chides FDA, GM rice trail
Guilty on all counts: Some fascinating market data in this little article about the 2007 National Grassfed Beef Conference in Pennsylvania. The majority of consumers purchasing grassfed beef are women who are younger, highly educated and more affluent. "The consumer is looking for more than cheap products,
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Digest: Straight from the abattoir, Observer gardeners, corny corn story
Must-bleed TV: Proving once again that the British have more balls than … well, anyone, a new show is debuting on the BBC called "Kill it. Cook it. Eat it." It's filmed in an abattoir with a restaurant built on the end. If our cable provider obliges, we'll be tuning in to give those who can stomach
Digest: GMO lawsuit bill, Howard revisited, more bee problems
Hurray for Huffman: A freshman California assemblyman has introduced legislation that would make companies developing genetically engineered crops liable for damages if their work results in contamination of other fields. SignOn
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Whole Foods’ John Mackey on the purists vs. the pragmatists
Those in the Bay Area who are planning to attend tonight's conversation at UC Berkeley between Whole Foods CEO John Mackey and "Omnivore's Dilemma" author Michael Pollan might want to whet their appetite with this Marketplace
Digest: FDA inspection drop, stressed-out bees, anti-globalization trend’s victims, ethical shrimp
Risk management roulette: The FDA is conducting just half the food-safety inspections it did three years ago. Time The AIDS of bees: The definitive story on what "colony collapse disorder" means for bee keeping and U.S. agriculture,
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Digest: USDA plays chicken with BSE, UK farmers vs. grocers, more
Time to get mad over mad-cow missteps: The USDA is proposing to allow Canadian cattle older than 30 months to be imported into the United States, and U.S. ranchers are pissed. The Cattle Network reports that a Big Meat representative
