Can’t Reach the Summit Only one G8 leader has confirmed attendance at next week’s Hunger Summit in Rome (Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi, who’s hosting) and many stakeholders are not impressed.
GM Export Snafus The EU doesn’t want our GMO soy (or anything else) but that’s not stopping traces of it from winding up in the feedbins of European pigs, which is gumming up international trade.
No Pain, No Problem? Scientists are working on genetically engineering animals not to feel pain, so as to assuage meat eaters of animal welfare concerns, which of course would do nothing about the social and environmental problems with factory farms.
Testing, Testing, or Lack Thereof The latest big ground beef recall has been traced to an Ashville, NY’s AFA Foods, which, according to the NY Times, “stopped testing its ingredients years ago under pressure from beef suppliers.” Also. Did the USDA really have to “ban” E. coli???
Giving Thanks, Getting Fair The Student/Farmworker Alliance is launching a National Supermarket Week of Action, encouraging ethical eaters to deliver letters to supermarket managers, asking them to consider workers’ rights.
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