With hundreds of people nationwide made ill and millions of dollars worth of tomato crop ruined, you may be wondering how it happens that our federal government is unable to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak. In fact, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration still isn’t sure where the disease originated. After initially implicating […]
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Whole Foods has issued new “quality guidelines” for farmed seafood and the retailer seems determined to keep farmed Atlantic salmon on the menu no matter what anyone else says. Seafood sustainability organizations such as Monterey Bay Aquarium and Blue Ocean Institute urge consumers to avoid farmed Atlantic salmon (the only kind commercially available) for several […]
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The Bushites are fond of shifting blame for the current world food crises away from their project to turn corn into ethanol and toward other phonemena, such as the increasingly Western diet demands of China and India. Charles Grassley, the cranky Republican senator from Iowa, also loves to thumb his nose at biofuel critics, saying […]
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