Here’s a cute, animated film on factory farming, courtesy of the Sierra Club, to start your Sunday. And while you’re sipping your coffee, consider a recent University of Illinois study of groundwater near pig confinement lots that found transferable genes that confer resistance to antibiotics, specifically tetracycline. Livestock in industrial settings are routinely given antibiotics […]
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Today’s online edition of Reader Express, the Washington Post’s free tabloid, quotes The Slow Cook on the subject of China executing its former chief of food safety. Read about it here by clicking through the “Blog Log” feature at the bottom of the page.
Tags:food news
In the wake of so many tainted food scandals, the Chinese government today announced that it had executed Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head of China’s food and drug safety administration. Zheng, who had headed the Chinese State Food and Drug Administration from 1997 to 2006, was convicted of accepting bribes in exchange for his approval […]
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