So Let Me Get This Straight…
Let’s talk pills. To treat everything from allergies to heart problems, half of Americans take a prescription medicine every day, and nearly all of us reach for the pill bottle
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Tag: Food
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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“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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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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Potatoes…Not As Bad As You Might Believe
I grew up reading Jeff Cox in Organic Gardening & Farming (or vice versa depending on the year). I was happy to find him at the OrganicToBe.org blog. His article
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Peanut Company Shuts It’s Texas Plant
It just seems to me that when you have production of goods going into so many food products you would have controls in place to insure the safety of the
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Food Safety
In times of economic crisis, where do we draw the line on funding cuts? Food safety? Drug Safety? Highway Safety? If we can cut funding when the economy is good,
