The Ethicurean: All steriled up: Produce safety guidelines throw sustainability out, keep toxic bathwater

Good article on the food safety issue from The Ethicurean Blog. Down on the farm Here’s a quick backgrounder: After the E. coli/spinach episode in 2006, big leafy greens producers

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Twitter Updates for 2009-02-18

On awakening our lady weather presented early summer. Light rain falls from a gray sky. Neither rising nor falling, the temperature ’tis 70. Twitter Tools Powered by Twitter Tools.

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“Dangerous Food”

While most successful food producers are far more diligent — big name-brand peanut butter is considered safe, for example — American consumers have faced far too many food-supply emergencies in

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Is it really “Victory Garden” Time?

My reading on the web keeps coming across a common thread…It’s that over and over in blog posts and comments people are talking about buying seeds and starting to raise

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Twitter Updates for 2009-02-14

Winter thunderstorms…all thunder, no rain. The day really looks wintery, ‘tho the temperature belies the look…Shorts and flipflops rule. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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