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Digest: Mo’ melamine woes, food safety offenders, Obama to target subsidies
Want some formica in your formula?: We thought we'd seen the worst of the FDA's screwups with this Chinese melamine debacle, but the agency still has surprises up its sleeve. It held back test results that reveal low levels of melamine in infant formula produced by U.S. companies Mead Johnson,
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Digest – News & Features: Organic gets wild n’ crazy, turkey workers do too, and everyone turns to SPAM
When organic gets fishy: The National Organic Standards Board ruled to allow farmed fish that consume up to 25% non-organic feed to be labeled "organic." Consumer advocates worry it's the beginning of a downward slide for standards on other organic animal products. (Washington
Digest: Pass the potatoes, hold the pesticides, and Bittman takes a bite (of sardines)
Salmon dieu!: On Wednesday, the National Organic Standards Board will rule on whether any fish can be labeled organic. Under the guidelines as proposed, wild salmon will not make the grade but farm-raised salmon could, even if they eat fish meal, which is feed spiked with ground-up wild fish. (
Old snapshots document fish populations, curb “shifting baselines syndrome”
Most vacation snapshots spend their days languishing in photo albums, shoeboxes, or hard drives, not really doing anything useful. But thanks to a new field of research
Beware: Pirates patrol these waters
By Ben Bowman For the fish-loving Ethicurean, pensive while paddling a small craft through the treacherous Straits of Seafood Uncertainty, the signal ‘Safe Passage Ahead’ beamed from a passing research ship is more than enough to make the heart lift and quicken. This
Rigging the aquaculture game
Updated 9/21 to clarify the MMS proposal. Thanks, Zach! I've gotta hand it to the Bushies. If there is one arena in which this band of generally-less-than-a-full -deckers shows a glimmer of brilliance, it
Bluefin tuna finally extinct: “Well worth it,” say sushi fans
By Barry Foy, Special to the Ethicurean The glimmer of international celebrity outshone the chandeliers in Tokyo’s most expensive hotel on Sunday night, as heads of state, movie stars, and tycoons gathered for what trendspotters predicted would be the party of the year. Flanked by reporters and bodyguards,
Snacks for the ears: Podcasts with authors Frederick Kaufman, Paul Roberts, Taras Grescoe, and more
Catching up on podcasts this weekend, I listened to several that might interest Ethicurean readers. The May 26th edition of the Patt
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Tagging and cooking: Science in the service of sustainability
The May 20 episode of Quest, the science program on San Francisco's public television station, had two segments that might be of interest to Ethicurean
Getting a handle on sustainability: It’s the ecosystem (stupid)
Caption: Monterey Bay Aquarium visitors watch a small bluefin tuna (center). If world overfishing of this top predator doesn't slow soon, aquariums may be the only places to see one. The word "sustainability" came up
Jumping off the deep end: An immersion in seafood
I'm at the Sustainable Foods Institute portion of the Cooking for Solutions 2008 conference being held at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Today is a nonstop schedule of panel discussions on demand for shrimp, salmon, and tuna; wine going "green";
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No-go fish: A review of “Bottomfeeder” by Taras Grescoe
Taras Grescoe says he wrote "Bottomfeeder" (Bloomsbury USA, May 2008) for a somewhat selfish reason: he wanted to taste the world's great seafood dishes — like bouillabaisse
Mini-Digest: New transgenic pigs, Wendy’s bird burgers, sodas with gas
The digest was contributed by Ethicurean buddy Barry Foy. Stop busting my chops: Researchers at Texas A&M have introduced a genetically modified hog that has a pair of succulent jowls at each end. Targeted at
Digest – News: Downergate public flogging, Farm Bill drags on, salmon sadness
One CEO having very bad month: Hallmark/Westland Meat's CEO testified before a House Subcommittee (after being subpoenaed) that sick animals were not slaughtered at his slaughterhouse for food. He changed his tune when shown a second video, one that had been on the Humane Society's website since mid-Feb…and
Digest – Features: Abattoir ambitions, grain stampede, farming the bluefin
Locally raised, locally slaughtered: Farmer Cheryl Ouellette raises pigs, cattle, chickens and ducks on her Summit farm in Pierce County, WA, but she has to drive them all over to be slaughtered. Which is why she's on fire to get a mobile abattoir built — and with all the interest she's sparked,
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