By Rosie Mestel
April 29, 2010
The FDA is seeking public comment on "ways to enhance the usefulness to consumers of point-of-purchase nutrition information" -- meaning information on the front of food packages or info that might be displayed on shelf-tags in grocery stores. (They're not talking about the Nutrition Facts box on that back of packages to which many of us already refer.) Here's an FDA web page where you can read more about what the agency is seeking and submit a comment.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2010/04/your-chance-to-tell-the-fda-what-you-think-of-foodpackage-labels.html
Friday, April 30, 2010
Food Safety News Article - Salmonella Strikes Popular Restaurants
By Dan Flynn
April 30, 2010
Two locally popular restaurants on opposite sides of the country are proving once again that when it comes to eating and drinking establishments, going with the crowd is no protection from foodborne illness. Popular restaurants--even those with good overall scores on restaurant inspections---can quickly spread a pathogen if they have unsanitary habits they cannot kick. That may be the case for both Los Dos Amigos on Southeast Jackson Street in Roseburg, OR and Bullock's Bar B Que on Quebec Street in Durham, NC (local!). Public health officials in Oregon and North Carolina believe the two restaurants may be responsible for unrelated Salmonella outbreaks.
Read on here for more details on the recent salmonella outbreaks, including a disturbingly long list of Bullock's recent sanitation violations.
April 30, 2010
Two locally popular restaurants on opposite sides of the country are proving once again that when it comes to eating and drinking establishments, going with the crowd is no protection from foodborne illness. Popular restaurants--even those with good overall scores on restaurant inspections---can quickly spread a pathogen if they have unsanitary habits they cannot kick. That may be the case for both Los Dos Amigos on Southeast Jackson Street in Roseburg, OR and Bullock's Bar B Que on Quebec Street in Durham, NC (local!). Public health officials in Oregon and North Carolina believe the two restaurants may be responsible for unrelated Salmonella outbreaks.
Read on here for more details on the recent salmonella outbreaks, including a disturbingly long list of Bullock's recent sanitation violations.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Civil Eats Post - From The Belly Of The Beast: An Interview with Food Inc.'s Carole Morison
April 29, 2010
By Twilight Greenaway
"If you’ve seen Food, Inc., you may remember watching Carole Morison walk through her chicken house gathering a handful of sickly and lifeless birds. It’s a chilling scene, and one that she tells the documentary’s audience occurred almost daily over the two decades she and her husband were contract farmers for Purdue. By the time the film was made, the Morisons had decided to end their contract with the company and Carole was in a rare position to act as a whistle blower. In exacting detail she described the harsh conditions for the animals and the people involved in such contracts and shed light on an industry often shrouded in secrecy. Now a consultant focused on local food systems, Carole visited the Bay Area recently to speak on several food and farming panels, including one held by the Center for urban Education for Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA) called Inside the Hen House."
Read interview with Carole here.
By Twilight Greenaway
"If you’ve seen Food, Inc., you may remember watching Carole Morison walk through her chicken house gathering a handful of sickly and lifeless birds. It’s a chilling scene, and one that she tells the documentary’s audience occurred almost daily over the two decades she and her husband were contract farmers for Purdue. By the time the film was made, the Morisons had decided to end their contract with the company and Carole was in a rare position to act as a whistle blower. In exacting detail she described the harsh conditions for the animals and the people involved in such contracts and shed light on an industry often shrouded in secrecy. Now a consultant focused on local food systems, Carole visited the Bay Area recently to speak on several food and farming panels, including one held by the Center for urban Education for Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA) called Inside the Hen House."
Read interview with Carole here.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
VEGdaily Post - Farm Sanctuary Urges Passage of the Healthy School Meals Act To Benefit Children And Animals
On Wednesday, April 21, concerned citizens nationwide will join Farm Sanctuary, the nation’s leading farm animal protection organization, in a National Call-In Day to urge legislators to support H.R. 4870, the Healthy School Meals Act.
See full press release here, which explains how the Healthy School Meals Act will benefit not only the health of children but also that of animals and the environment.
http://vegdaily.com/2010/04/farm-sanctuary-urges-passage-of-the-healthy-school-meals-act-to-benefit-children-and-animals/
See full press release here, which explains how the Healthy School Meals Act will benefit not only the health of children but also that of animals and the environment.
http://vegdaily.com/2010/04/farm-sanctuary-urges-passage-of-the-healthy-school-meals-act-to-benefit-children-and-animals/
Monday, April 26, 2010
CNN Article - It's meatless Monday for some
By Sarah LeTrent
April 26, 2010
More media coverage of the increasingly popular Meatless Monday movement, in which people cut out meat one day a week for health and environmental reasons.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/homestyle/04/26/meatless.mondays.green.healthy/
For more information about Meatless Mondays (including vegetarian recipes!), visit the movement's website. And see Huffington Post article promoting and explaining the advantages of the movement, posted here.
April 26, 2010
More media coverage of the increasingly popular Meatless Monday movement, in which people cut out meat one day a week for health and environmental reasons.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/homestyle/04/26/meatless.mondays.green.healthy/
For more information about Meatless Mondays (including vegetarian recipes!), visit the movement's website. And see Huffington Post article promoting and explaining the advantages of the movement, posted here.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Civil Eats Post - EPA Intern Offends Sensitive Meat-Industry Souls
April 23rd, 2010
By Tom Philpott (originally posted on Grist)
As quoted from an article on The Hill, "The Farm Bureau is none too happy with the EPA today for publishing a blog post urging Americans to give up meat. The post in question was written by an EPA intern and recounts her decision to stop eating meat. The author, Nicole Reising, cites the 'environmental effects of meat production' and urges readers to stop eating meat."
This story directly relates to my recent blog post about the larger issue of the danger of declaring "eat less meat" in America. See full Civil Eats post at link below.
http://civileats.com/2010/04/23/epa-intern-offends-sensitive-meat-industry-souls/
By Tom Philpott (originally posted on Grist)
As quoted from an article on The Hill, "The Farm Bureau is none too happy with the EPA today for publishing a blog post urging Americans to give up meat. The post in question was written by an EPA intern and recounts her decision to stop eating meat. The author, Nicole Reising, cites the 'environmental effects of meat production' and urges readers to stop eating meat."
This story directly relates to my recent blog post about the larger issue of the danger of declaring "eat less meat" in America. See full Civil Eats post at link below.
http://civileats.com/2010/04/23/epa-intern-offends-sensitive-meat-industry-souls/
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Food Safety News Article - USDA Updating Farmers Market Directory
On Monday the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) launched it's latest campaign to collect information about farmers markets for the 2010 National Farmers Market Directory.
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2010/04/usda-to-update-2010-national-farmers-market-directory/
Cookbook - "How to Cook Everything Vegetarian"
by Mark Bittman. The fact that the author is not a vegetarian himself (instead a self-proclaimed "flexitarian" - someone who tries to minimize the amount of meat they eat, but doesn't eliminate it altogether) makes this cookbook ideal for people who are trying out or in the early stages of a meatless diet. The comprehensiveness of this cookbook (over 2,000 recipes) and the fact that many of those recipes are extremely basic (how to steam vegetables, for example) are its biggest advantages - again, particularly for the newcomer to veggie-based cooking and eating.I made Roasted Cauliflower with Raisins and Vinaigrette (intended as a salad, but I had it as a side dish for dinner - that's the beauty of any recipe, you can make it your own!) and then Banana Bread (which was enjoyed by my coworkers, so this could be a repeat dish!).
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Washington Post Article - FDA plans to limit amount of salt allowed in processed foods for health reasons
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
The Food and Drug Administration is planning an unprecedented effort to gradually reduce the salt consumed each day by Americans, saying that less sodium in everything from soup to nuts would prevent thousands of deaths from hypertension and heart disease. The initiative, to be launched this year, would eventually lead to the first legal limits on the amount of salt allowed in food products.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/19/AR2010041905049.html
Monday, April 19, 2010
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