FDA Releases Two Long-Awaited Food Safety Rules
After a year-long delay, two sweeping new food safety rules that will for the first time mandate produce safety standards and preventive controls nationwide will be released today and published to the...
View ArticleBeyond Raw Milk: New Book Highlights Expanding ‘Food Rights’ Movement
David Gumpert is an advocate and a journalist who writes almost exclusively about raw milk, private food buying clubs, and the conflict around various government attempts to regulate the two. In his...
View ArticleFive Things I Will Not Eat
My partner eyed me sternly when I announced that my next book was going to be an investigative look at pork production. “Does this mean that I’ll have to give up eating bacon?” she asked. Deadly...
View ArticleShut Down This: Our Food Safety, Health & Welfare at Stake
While Congress battles it out over health care reform, the resulting government shutdown will have far-reaching impacts on food safety, environmental protections, food production, and farming. It also...
View ArticleDon’t Let the Food Safety Modernization Act Burden Family Farmers
Amidst the current furor over a government shutdown, the federal budget, debt ceiling, food stamps, immigration, and other programs that are either held up or being curtailed, another huge issue is...
View ArticleChinese Chicken: Why I’m Starting Another Food Petition & How You Can Help
As many of you know, in March, 2012 I launched on The Lunch Tray a Change.org petition seeking to remove lean, finely textured beef (“LFTB,” more widely known as “pink slime”) from the ground beef...
View ArticleLessons From the Rancho Recall: Local Slaughterhouses are Essential
On February 8, Rancho Feed Corporation issued a recall on more than 8.7 million pounds of meat that had been processed in its facility over the last year. No illnesses have been reported, but the...
View ArticleGRAS Out: Surprising Number of Unregulated Chemicals Found in Food
If you don’t recognize all the high-tech ingredients available in food and drinks these days, you’re not alone. Some of these new additions—such as glucosamine hydrochloride, gamma-amino butyric acid...
View ArticleFighting for Young Farmers: Lindsey Lusher Shute
As Executive Director and co-founder of the National Young Farmers Coalition (NYFC), Lindsey Lusher Shute has united thousands of farmer-activists and supporters from all 50 states. NYFC is now in its...
View ArticleAll the News That’s Fit to Eat: Oregon’s GMO Bans, Potatoes in WIC,...
Here’s what caught our eye this week in food news: 1. Beating Monsanto in the Food Fight: Oregon Counties Vote to Ban GMO Crops (The Nation) Josephine County and Jackson County, Oregon overwhelmingly...
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