Archive for June, 2009

A Big Food Safety Bill Could Hurt Small Farms

Safety inspections protocol has been trending toward ‘one-size-fits-all’, leaving many to wonder how much longer small farms will survive.
The farmers that do survive continually frustrate inspection officials.  The Polyface farm, featured in the Omnivore’s Dilemma and more recently in Food Inc., demonstrates how of a lot the minutia aimed at large-scale processors is out of [...]

June 29, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Health, Politics, Science & Technology  4 Comments

Contaminated Pistachios Re-Enter Market After Recall

Just what does a company do with recalled food products?  If you’re the irresponsible Orca Distribution West Inc. of Anaheim, California you simply repackage them for sale.  FDA officials says that this company received and resold pistachios that had been recalled by Setton Pistachios of Terra Bella Inc.  Those pistachios had been recalled because of [...]

June 26, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Health, Politics  3 Comments

Nagging Questions Gives You The Answers

I found a great food trivia column at chow.com called Nagging Questions. Searching through the list of questions author Roxanne Webber has already asked, I found myself thinking Yeah, why is that? a lot. Questions that had not ever nagged before, suddenly were. There were questions like how does packaged guacamole stay [...]

June 24, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Fun Food Facts  No Comments

Michelle Obama, The New First Lady Of The Food Movement

For a while now, I’ve been saying that we need an Al Gore for the food movement.  The food movment needs a good salesman and a connector, someone with ties to the ‘inside’.  More importantly, the food movement needs someone that the public recognizes and trusts to have their interests at heart.  With Michelle [...]

June 22, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Health, Politics  3 Comments

Watermelon, It’s Your Summertime Stimulant …Err…Refreshment

Let’s start off the summer right by reminding ourselves how good watermelon tastes. It’s about now that watermelon is transforming from dry pink mush into lush, juicy pieces of cool refreshment.  There is even more reason to love watermelon because it:

is concentrated with a ton of antioxidants
helps reduce inflammation
may help prevent asthma when eaten
is [...]

June 17, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health, Science & Technology  One Comment