Archive for July, 2009
Lab-Grown Meat, The Future Is Soon
Flipping to the resources page of the New Harvest website, a non-profit whose mission is to promote and advance meat substitutes, you find twice as many popular articles on the subject of lab-grown meat as there are technical articles on it. Test-tube meat, in vitro meat, cultured meat or whatever name you call it may [...]
July 20, 2009
Tags: agriculture, bacon, Barack Obama, change, cows, farmers, food event, green, greenhouse gases, innovation Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Science & Technology 
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Factory Farmed Animals Hog All The Antibiotics
70% of the antibiotics produced in the US go to animals that are not sick. Amassed together in small spaces, diseases can flourish and rapidly spread to all of the confined animals so the purveyors of Concentrated Animal Feed Operations (CAFOs) use them as a preventative measure, but also to stimulate growth. Both practices are [...]
July 15, 2009
Tags: agriculture, bacon, Barack Obama, change, farmers, food safety, Health, heroes, policy Posted in: Health, Politics, Science & Technology One Comment
Food Politics Taking Its Rightful Place In Mainstream Media
There were not one, not two, but three different food policy and food research articles in the Chicago Tribune’s Friday paper. Do you have a Mom that tells you about newspaper articles that are of interest to you? I do, and I think it’s great. Anyways, these articles she tells me were on the front [...]
July 13, 2009
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Michael Taylor, The New Old Guy At The FDA
Michael Taylor may be a controversial choice for the special assistant to the FDA Commissioner for food safety. After all, he worked for several years as a lawyer working to represent Monsanto, vilified by many as the face of genetically modified foods. He personifies the ‘revolving door’ between governmental positions and the food industry. Taylor [...]
July 10, 2009
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State Of The Food Nation
Food Inc. is out in theaters and is scaring the “bejesus” out of people. Michelle Obama has harvested her garden and made stirring speeches encouraging change in the American diet. Healthcare reforms are being debated in Congress that will effect the way chronic, food-related diseases are treated. There are massive food recalls almost weekly. Our [...]
July 6, 2009
Tags: agriculture, Barack Obama, change, farmers, FDA, food, food safety, Health, nutrition, policy, USDA Posted in: Health, Politics, Science & Technology No Comments
Celebrate July 4th With Contaminated Cookies And Beef
The Cookies
From January to June 2009, at least 69 people from 29 states have gotten sick with E. coli O157:H7, which stemmed from eating Nestlé’s raw cookie dough.
On June 19, the FDA warned the public not to eat Nestlé’s raw cookie dough and Nestlé issued a voluntary recall.
Like most voluntary recalls, it does not stop [...]
July 3, 2009
Tags: FDA, food, food event, food safety, Health, policy, USDA Posted in: Health, Politics One Comment
Food Inc., The Reviews Are In
Sorry, there are no theaters within 20 miles of my zipcode that are playing Food Inc. I will have to get it on Netflix when it comes out. In the mean time, I have watched the trailer and read a bunch of the reviews:
There is the short and sweet review by Marion Nestle, who describes [...]
July 1, 2009
Tags: agriculture, change, farmers, food event, Health, marketing, nutrition, policy Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health, Politics 4 Comments
