Peanuts…Get Your Peanuts Right Here!

It seems the story of the Peanut Corporation of America just keeps getting better and better as it shows just how poor America’s food safety system really is… Even amid

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Peanut butter recall grows….

In the news… More than 125 products have been recalled in a salmonella-and-peanuts investigation that keeps getting bigger, federal health officials said Wednesday. The list ranges from goodies like cookies

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Peanut Butter Recall

“This is an excellent illustration of an ingredient-driven outbreak,” said Dr. Robert Tauxe, who oversees foodborne illness investigations for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So far, more than

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Talks : Michael Pollan: The omnivore’s next dilemma

       Why you should listen to him: Few writers approach their subjects with the rigor, passion and perspective that’s typical of Michael Pollan. Whereas most humans think we

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Wednesday Morning Muse

Food is a microcosm of the macrocosm. Eating the right food is part of the solution to the problems of climate change and global hunger.(1) Resurgence Magazine is focusing on

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Musing for a Sunday Morning…

Leon Hale’s weekly column this morning reached back to before my birth…But, he touched a chord even so. The final lines though really rang true… I guess what got me

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