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Pasteurized salad?

By • on September 7, 2008

If Slow Food Nation showcased produce at the peak of taste, texture and freshness, a new FDA proposal might just show us what things look like down at the other end of the spectrum. The FDA recently

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Digest – News: So Monsanto, going to take on Wal-Mart? Meanwhile, raw milk’s losing

By • on March 24, 2008

It ain't over until the biotech giant screams: Wal-Mart says its private-label milk will be produced with no artificial growth hormones, aka Monsanto's rBST drug Posilac. (Globe and Mail) Related: Kroger

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Digest – News: Scary wheat fungus spreading, food prices climbing, don’t blame the soda (right)

By • on March 17, 2008

When it grains it pours: A dangerous new fungus with the ability to destroy entire wheat fields has been detected in Iran, says the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization. Up to 80% of all Asian and African wheat varieties are susceptible to the fungus, which can be transmitted across continents by wind.

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Be a “responsible masticator”: “Keep on Shoppin’ in a (Label) Free World”!

By • on March 7, 2008

Eco-Farm n00bs Tom and I weren't sure what to expect from the January conference's talent show, but we knew we'd be entertained one way or another.

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Digest – News: More Downergate fallout, Monsanto defeat likely in Kansas, moth myth busters

By • on March 6, 2008

The full Digest is now back with a vengeance. Umbrellas up! And thanks to Jack for his help. Nothing but the worst for our kids: For years the USDA has had problems ensuring that beef supplied to the national school-lunch program meets food-safety

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Thinking about carbon “foodprints”

By • on March 2, 2008

The February 25 issue of The New Yorker has an important article by staff writer Michael Specter about some of the economic, logistical, and moral issues related to our individual

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Keepin’ it natural: Urgent action on meat labels

By • on February 29, 2008

On a recent trip to the grocery store, a friend of mine living in the Midwest decided to put in a plug for grass-fed beef. They won't supply it if we don't ask for it, right? She approached the man behind the meat counter and asked if they carried it. With a completely straight face, he responded: "Grass-fed?

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An open letter to Monsanto

By • on February 20, 2008

Oh, Monsanto. Just look at you. You've got your knit cap pulled down tight over your crew cut, and your stomach is sticking out beneath your skull-and-crossbones T-shirt. Your face is riddled with acne, and your eyes are all hard and mean. You've been left back a few grades now — summer school doesn't

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Kansas Legislature joins list of those who prefer consumers stay ignorant

By • on February 16, 2008

Members of the Kansas Legislature have joined the esteemed lawmakers or regulators in Pennsylvania, Indiana

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Welcome Washington Post readers!

By • on January 30, 2008

Jane Black has a great article in the Washington Post's food section today, about how the recent tsunami of headlines on contaminated food from China, E. coli outbreaks, and cloned meat has

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The spread of transgenic corn, soybeans and cotton

By • on January 26, 2008

As a follow-up to Tom Philpott's post about genetically modified crops (also known as transgenic or genetically engineered crops), I thought I'd post some data on transgenic crop adoption in the United States. Because products made

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Canadian government wants feedback on food safety

By • on January 20, 2008

On December 17, 2007, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that the government will be implementing a new "Food and Consumer Safety Action Plan". Apparently, the federal health and agriculture departments want feedback from Canadians on how the government should carry out its proposed

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PA pulls the plug on rBGH-free label ban

By • on January 17, 2008

According to Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility's Campaign for Safe Food and the Philadelphia Inquirer,

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Digest – Blogs: Juicy distinctions, egg licensing, grassfed beef dissin’

By • on January 11, 2008

Adding it all up: Marion Nestle weighs in on a new promotion for Minute Maid's specially enhanced fruit juices, and explains in an interesting aside what it means that the FDA regulates label claims but the FTC governs advertising. (Eating

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Guest post: A Vermont hog farmer’s opinion of the proposed “Naturally Raised” label

By • on January 10, 2008

The following is from Walter Jeffries, who raises hogs on pasture in Vermont at Sugar Mountain Farm. A while back I wrote that the USDA was stealing the term Naturally

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