Time to change kids’ lunch This week, Slow Food USA launched its Time for Lunch campaign. They’re gathering signatures to show support for prioritizing “real food” in reauthorization of the upcoming Child Nutrition Act, which funds school lunch (and breakfast) programs nationwide. Reauthorization by Congress is slated for September and Slow Food is organizing a national day of action this Labor Day, with local Eat-Ins around the country.
Change in China IATP’s Jim Harkness reports on a new animal welfare law in China, which protects pets but not farm animals, for whom things have rapidly gone downhill as the old days of table-scrap-fed barnyard pigs and chickens have given way to a major increase in Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs). Baby steps, yes, but Harkness, who spent over a decade in China, sees some hope in the country’s shifting attitudes toward animals and nature.
Un-appealing The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied Monsanto’s request to reconsider a ruling keeping the agri-giant from selling its Roundup Ready alfalfa seeds “until the government completes an environmental impact study on how the genetically modified product could affect neighboring crops.” Here’s hoping this shutdown will set a precedent for other GM crops.
E coli, in beef and elsewhere As experts puzzle over how E. coli, a bacteria specific to cattle, wound up in Nestle’s Toll House cookie dough, sickening over 60 people across the country, Colorado’s JBS Swift Beef company announces a massive Class 1 recall on its products.
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