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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.
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Digest - News: A grande gesture from Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts bids bye to trans fats
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Digest - News: Grassley has an idea, farm-animal serial killers
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Not so NAIS: Animal-tracking program is solution to wrong problem
Thanks to Marc R. for calling my attention to the Government Accountability Office’s recent report on the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). NAIS, which first saw the light of corner offices at the USDA in 2002, flaunts a meaty goal: to identify and track the movement of all livestock animals and poultry in the United […]
Digest - News & Commentary: Kids brainwashed, FDA f*(&s up again, cheap food safe
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Digest - News & Commentary: Stress + fast food = obesity; EU to plant GMOs
The Digest trawls the Web for tasty news, features, op-eds and blog posts — from Farm Bill updates to backyard chickens, transgenic foods, E. coli recalls, and sustainable fish. No extra charge for the puns.
Digest - Lighter fare: The dirt cure, House Ag members get Porker Award, Times kicks the greenies
The Digest trawls the Web for tasty news, features, op-eds and blog posts — from Farm Bill updates to backyard chickens, transgenic foods, E. coli recalls, and sustainable fish. No extra charge for the puns.
Digest - Blogsnacks: Feminism and slow food, Hillary likes USDA name change, FoodMed reporting
Digest - Blogsnacks: Feminism and slow food, Hillary likes USDA name change, FoodMed reporting
Digest: Bee conference, MickeyD’s makes Greenpeace, pass the chuck
“Mad bee disease”?: About 60 scientists are sharing their early findings regarding “colony collapse disorder” in bees. They’re focusing on the most likely suspects: a virus, a fungus or a pesticide, particularly the neonicotinoids group banned in France for causing what the French called “mad bee disease.” They’ve set aside for now the possibility that […]
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