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Calling for change “Progress has plateaued” on the food safety front, according to Robert Taux of the CDC. Salmonella infections in particular are lacking in improvement, but the overall numbers are staggering: 76 million are sickened every year, with 300,000 hospitalized and 5,000 deaths from food poisoning yearly.
Springing leeks Chef Kurt Michael Kriese at [...]

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GOOD on your water foodprint GOOD magazine has put together a neat chart to visually represent your unseen water use, especially as it relates to food, which Kai from h2oconserve.org blogged about here back in February
More nutty salmonella Public health advocates say this latest outbreak is more evidence of a system in bad need of [...]

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Who knows where food comes from? According to this disturbing article from Wednesday’s New York Times, most of the folks who manufacture and distribute food products don’t know where their ingredients come from. (hat tip to Naomi Starkman)
Naked chef to cook for world leaders Sustainable food visionary Jamie Oliver and friends from his restaurant, [...]

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Along came a spider Last weekend, employees at a Tulsa Whole Foods found what was believed to be one of the world’s deadliest spiders in a shipment of bananas. Now, scientists are saying it may have been of a more common, harmless domestic variety.
Farmers’ markets boom good for farmers or markets? Local farmers markets [...]

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Less is more, if you’re talking fertilizer Scientists from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) have just released the results of a ten-year study, the gist of which is that most crops absorb a small percentage of the nitrogen applied to soil, and the small increase in yield didn’t offset the considerable costs related to the [...]

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A familiar voice for farmers Neil Young, a board member at Farm Aid and a farmer himself, landed a small-farm-friendly op-ed in the Boston Globe this week.  Who doesn’t want to listen to Neil Young?
A White House garden on its way? Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack advisor Neil Hamilton predicts that the White House will have [...]

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The market value of food safety The party is over for Vilsack at Obama Foodorama, where Eddie takes the Sec of Ag to task for this quote on the peanut butter scandal: “At the end of the day, (food safety) is about preserving the income opportunities for farmers and ranchers…We’ve got to make sure the [...]

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Is it the 21st Century? In the wake of a case the Chief Assistant US Attorney called one of Southwest Florida’s biggest, ugliest slavery cases ever (and the seventh such case in the last ten years) the Coalition of Immokalee Workers is calling on Florida Gov. Charlie Crist to publicly denounce slavery. If you’d [...]

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At a time of year when many of us are thinking about giving fancy sweets to loved ones, there’s a lot going on with beet sugar. Emily Fudakowski fills us in on what’s happening up north.
Montreal based sugar processing giant Rogers/Lantic will soon decide if it will accept GM sugar beet from Alberta farmers [...]

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Plot thickens in peanut butter salmonella outbreak The owners knew their product had tested positive for salmonella but sold it anyway, there was “goo” dripping from the ceiling, industry doesn’t want to pay for safety inspections.  Obama Foodorama has all the details.
Obamas hire hometown chef Sam Kass He’s a fan of locally grown food, maybe [...]

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