Showing posts with label food safety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food safety. Show all posts
Thursday, December 10, 2020

Improving Rural Life--Butchers and Regulations

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Posted earlier on the need for Democrats to address rural issues.   Here's another one, which fits with the liberal position about favor...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Farmers Take Two Hits

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Two hits on farmers in the media: the World Health Organization declares processed red meat to increase the risk of cancer (not IMHO a rea...
Friday, October 09, 2015

When Is a Farm a Farm? II

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Illinois extension has a post on the FDA definition of a "farm". To quote: " The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA...
Thursday, November 21, 2013

Ben Franklin on Lead

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My father had to switch from chemical engineering to farming because of lead poisoning, so this letter by Ben Franklin, in a post at Boston...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

NAIS Failure

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From Chris Clayton  on the responsibility for the failure of NAIS: ...who at the top of the buying chain pushed back down and stated the...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009

The Next Most Surprising Statistic Today--Fruits and Vegetable Consumption Increased

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(After the teachers from the Philippines in the previous post), this quote surprised me: While consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables ...
Monday, June 08, 2009

Food Poisoning at the Inaugural Dinner

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Yes, and someone died! I'm sure the food system was to blame. Of course, this was in 1857, based on a couple sentences in this blog po...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Food Safety

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NYTimes reports the food system seems to be more safe than it was 10 years ago. It's complicated because we're better at identifyin...
Friday, December 12, 2008

Thoughts on CAFO's

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Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO's) are a big topic these days, and will no doubt continue to be. I offer my thoughts: the vege...
Sunday, November 09, 2008

Another Web Site for Agriculture

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The NAL Blog references a new site, called the Agriculture and Public Health Gateway, sponsored by Johns Hopkins U. I've a couple r...
Saturday, August 23, 2008

Food Safety, Raw Milk Revisited

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Ethicurean has a long post describing the back and forth over a bill to regulate raw milk in California. Now I've mixed feelings on al...
Thursday, July 31, 2008

Salmonella Deaths

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One thing I discovered in an attempt to follow up on this Down to Earth post is, the government doesn't seem to do a good job of track...
Sunday, July 27, 2008

On Aerial Safety and Food Safety

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The Times has a review of airline safety today. I think there's an interesting parallel between aviation safety and food safety. Like t...
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Friday, July 25, 2008

Tracing Tomatoes

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This AP story discusses the problems in tracing tomatoes from dirt to consumer. As I've said before, the desire for safe food doesn...