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Jim Goodman: Why you should care how your meat is raised

kandylini wrote 2 months ago: We need to see more articles like this. Not only are you what you eat, you are what the animal you e … more →

Tags: health, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations

Bad Cow Disease

kandylini wrote 2 months ago: “When push comes to shove, it seems, the imperatives of crony capitalism trump professed faith … more →

Tags: Politics, FDA, mad cow disease

Tomato Scare & Food Safety Concerns Driving More & More Consumers to Buying Local & Organic

kandylini wrote 2 months ago: My local farmer’s market is always packed with people. BigAgra can spin these food safety stor … more →

Tags: health, News, Food, food poisoning, Salmonella, Tainted Tomatoes

Rep. DeLauro Slaps FDA for Bad Tomatoes

kandylini wrote 2 months ago: They’re great at protecting industry, judging from the way they treat raw dairy farmers versus … more →

Tags: News, health, FDA, Tomatoes, Salmonella, Rosa DeLauro

USDA papers: Burger recall followed riskier procedures

kandylini wrote 2 months ago: Here’s one of the many reasons why meat sold in places like Wal-mart are cheap: companies cut … more →

Tags: News, health, e. coli, Hamburger, Topps Meat Co, USDA

Ethicurean Mini-Digest: Monsanto wants to “save” the world, Kill Bill Vol. 247, SOLE research in the pipeline

kandylini wrote 2 months ago: Source: The Ethicurean. You say crisis, we say …Croesus: Monsanto has launched a massive PR campai … more →

Tags: Food, health, Monsanto, ethicurean, Tyson, Locavores

NAIS Isn't Official, Is It? To Tami Mascho, It's Looking Like a Well-Oiled Machine1 comment

kandylini wrote 2 months ago: Source: David Gumpert, The Complete Patient. Last week, the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund spo … more →

Tags: NAIS, National Animal Identification System, New York Department of Agriculture and Markets

Are tomatoes the kickoff to food-illness season?

kandylini wrote 2 months ago: Source: The Ethicurean. Ugh. Looks like our industrial food system is cranking out the salmonella fo … more →

Tags: health, News, Tomatoes, Salmonella

The Secret Police Campaign Against Raw Dairies May Signal More Government Fear Than We Realize

kandylini wrote 3 months ago: They are afraid, because more people are waking up and rejecting the Industrial Food Complex. Good! … more →

Tags: raw milk, Raw Dairy, California AB 1735

Legal Defense Fund Moves to Stop Animal ID Program

kandylini wrote 3 months ago: I think NAIS is the perfect program for Big Agra, but not for anyone else. Why does the government w … more →

Tags: Politics, NAIS, National Animal Identification System, RFID chips, USDA

Another beef recall, this time in 11 states2 comments

kandylini wrote 3 months ago: Source: Slashfood. I think it’s been a while since we had a beef recall. And by “a while … more →

Tags: Food, health, Ecoli, Beef recall, food recall, morreale meat

Blog post on Mad Cow: Now keeping us safe is illegal, too

kandylini wrote 3 months ago: Source: Effective Measure, a Science Blog. The subject of a recent post, rabies, put us in mind of a … more →

Tags: health, News, creekstone farms, Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy

A cornucopia for rich U.S. farmers2 comments

kandylini wrote 3 months ago: Source: CS Monitor. Farm subsidies will cost each US household about $320, the price to please agrib … more →

Tags: Politics, Farm Bill, Farm Subsidies

What Michael Pollan Hasn't Told You About Food

kandylini wrote 3 months ago: Source: Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet. As both obesity and hunger are on the rise, a new book shows … more →

Tags: Economy, health, Food, GMOs, NAFTA

How Niave Skeptics Are Creating Stronger Monopolies of Big Pharma and Big Agra2 comments

doctorlimpy wrote 4 months ago: I’ve talked about some of the “sponsored” pharmaceutical company representatives l … more →

Tags: Alternative Health, bad science, Cam, Gimpyblog, Homeopathy, Pharmaceutical, Skeptic, Society of Homeopaths, GMO

Letter to the editor re. Willet Dairy CAFO

kandylini wrote 4 months ago: From “Your Opinion” at Ithaca Times: Calf Quarantines One point left out of the piece … more →

Tags: News, health, raw milk, CAFO, willet farm

Toxic fumes, blisters & brain damage : The cost of doing business?

kandylini wrote 4 months ago: By Rebecca Lerner from the Ithaca Times: Photo Gallery Willet Dairy’s cows are lined up together … more →

Tags: News, health, CAFO, Willet Dairy

Corn Flacks, pt. 1: “What’s in your whipped cream?”

kandylini wrote 4 months ago: From Ethicurean.com: I have read hundreds of PR pitches in my time; first at the Red Herring, the d … more →

Tags: Food, health, gross food


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