Gore Endorses Meatless Monday After years of abuse from PETA, Al Gore finally acknowledges the role of meat reduction in reducing pollution. Sir Paul McCartney quoted the former VP in an address to the European Parliament earlier this week.
Whole Foods Goes Mobile (Slaughter) The natural food giant, no doubt responding to consumer demands surpassing lack of supply for local meat, is greasing the local poultry wheel with a mobile processing unit to serve much of the NorthEast. Sounds good, but Grist’s Tom Laskawy asks whether it will actually put the squeeze on small producers.
A Band-Aid Fix for E. Coli Scientists are testing a bovine vaccine for E. coli 0157:H7. The vaccines (which have been floating in that abyss between the jurisdictions of the USDA and FDA for years) were approved last year in Canada but of course, don’t speak to the cause of the illness: namely, industrially raised cattle’s unnatural diet.
Vote Trueman! 7 more hours to vote Kerry Trueman into the top 10 (as I type this, she’s at #12) so she will remain in the running to head to Copenhagen as The Huffington Post’s Hopenhagen Ambassador.
Small Farmers are Cool, but Can they Cool the Planet? According to GRAIN, small farmers and food sovereignty are key to solving our climate and our hunger crises.
Playing Chicken with Food Safety In other creepy news, a new test from Consumer Reports finds that 2/3 of industrially produced poultry harbored dangerous pathogens. Egad.
How to Raise Food Prices AND Waste Water The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has a new report out, which appears to ask more questions than it answers about the impact of increased biofuel production on regional water resources.
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