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Peanut butter recall spreads As of Wednesday, nearly 500 people throughout the US and Canada had fallen ill and six deaths are linked to this latest salmonella outbreak.  The FDA has expanded the recall to some 125 products, adding up to some 31 million pounds of peanut butter.  They’ve also created a searchable database, so [...]

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Salmonella 09 Just over a week into the new year, a new outbreak of salmonella has sickened at least 388 people in 42 states, with about 1/5 of those people sick enough to be hospitalized and one possible death.
Putting our money where our mouths are Tom Philpott has a great new piece on Grist, [...]

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Food Banks still down A sad reminder this holiday season that many, many Americans are facing hunger and food banks are struggling to keep up with demand. If you’ve got the means to help out, now would be the time.
Defrauding foodies The Fair Food Foundation, launched less than a year ago to support urban [...]

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Pop quiz, USDA style The USDA has announced plans to begin random tests for melamine in kids’ foods, particularly those that contain meat and dairy products, throughout the US, to begin in two weeks and last for 12 weeks. (Hat tip to Civil Eater and aspiring farmer Naomi Starkman)
Yes, we can Over at Grist,Tom [...]

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More Americans seek food stamps than ever September saw record numbers of Americans on food stamps, up 17% from last year to 31.5 million this year. That’s about one tenth of the population.
CIW takes Subway The 3rd largest fast food chain in America and the #1 buyer of Florida tomatoes has finally come around [...]

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A cleaner, greener filter I forgot to include this in last week’s feed — Brita has agreed to take back and recycle water filters. A new partnership between Clorox (Brita’s parent company) and Preserve will make it possible for people to mail in old filters or drop them off at Whole Foods stores. [...]

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News flash – fast food is corny Another study confirms what Michael Pollan and others have been saying for years, that just about everything on an average fast food menu is made of corn, which means that its cheap prices are held up by corn subsidies, even though the food’s no good for us or [...]

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Writing today from the Baltimore Bioneers conference, where the WHO Farm bus (which I just wrote about yesterday) pulled up this morning — small world! If you’re in Baltimore this weekend, you should swing by (though the bus pulls out tonight). For the rest of you, see if your city is hosting a [...]

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Happy Halloween!
Spooky! The Chinese melamine scandal has expanded to include eggs and has prompted a massive chicken cull.
Fishy! Friends at the Consumers’ Union tell us that organic standards are at risk in the seafood department. Basically, farmed fish that are fed wild fish (which sounds good, but many of these fish are from [...]

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Sink your teeth into this NYTimes Magazine’s food issue includes features on some of our favorite food fighters, including Severine von Tscharner Fleming and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, as well as a hearty (9 page!) open letter to the next president, calling for a solar-powered food system, from Michael Pollan.
Hard times call for old-timey [...]

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