PSA – Wash Those Pre-Washed Salad Greens
Recent research from the Consumer Reports Magazine found that those bagged salad mixes, most claiming to be pre-washed and ready to eat, aren’t as clean as you’d like them to be. Thankfully, what they found wasn’t e coli, salmonella or anything as dreadful as that. Instead, in their sample of 208 bags (representing 16 brands) [...]
March 13, 2010
Tags: agriculture, education, factory farms, Health, heroes, waste Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health, Science & Technology 
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Egypt Becomes A Pigsty Without Pigs
In an attempt to curb the spread of HINI influenza, commonly referred to as ’swine flu’, Egypt’s officials ordered the culling of every single pig in the nation. Â Egyptian officials now claim that the measure was not related to the swine flu pandemic, but rather about cleaning up the filth in a local neighborhood that [...]
September 25, 2009
Tags: bacon, Health, policy, waste Posted in: Health, Politics No Comments
Time Magazine Takes A Bite Out Of Cheap Food
Usually when the mainstream media talks about the plight of factory farmed animals and their deleterious effect on the environment, they do so in passing. It’s almost a casual afterthought to the story about why eating red meat will kill you faster, if it gets mentioned at all. Enter Times (online) magazine. The article Getting [...]
August 24, 2009
Tags: agriculture, bacon, cows, factory farms, farmers, Health, obesity, policy, waste Posted in: Health, Politics No Comments
Getting Both Your Mind and Car Running: Coffee Is The New Biofuel
The first diesel engine, invented by Rudolph Diesel in Germany, ran on pure peanut oil. Eventually crude oil was used because it was cheaper to produce and easier to work with. However, the concern for the environment and the extreme fluctuations in crude oil prices have brought biodiesels back on the scene. [...]
April 3, 2009
Tags: agriculture, energy, food, food event, greenhouse gases, innovation, waste Posted in: Science & Technology No Comments
Going Trayless Saves Food Services More
The econimic recession has hit the food service industry pretty hard. The recent spike in food prices was actually the apex of a long, ten-year trend in rising food costs. Â So, even now that the real prices of foodstuffs is falling, food industry insiders are still scrambling to cut corners.
Shaving portion sizes has been [...]
January 19, 2009
Tags: education, food, green, innovation, policy, waste Posted in: Science & Technology One Comment
Waste Not, Want Not, Continued: Food Taboos in American Culture
Jonathan Bloom cares a lot about the food that we leave on our plates, but what about the food that never makes it there in the first place? The taboo on eating animal organs keeps a lot of very nutritious foodstuffs off the dinner table. When regular cuts of meat were routinely being shipped overseas [...]
January 3, 2009
Tags: food, hunger, waste, World War II Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Politics No Comments
Waste Not, Want Not: Donating Food in America
According to Jonathan Bloom at wastedfood.com, Americans waste more than 40% of the food we grow for consumption. Adding it up, this can cost us over $100 billion annually. Think about it. Do you ever wonder where that extra bread goes to at the restaurant? How often do you end up with brown mush in [...]
January 1, 2009
Tags: food, hunger, waste Posted in: Politics, Uncategorized 5 Comments
