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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...

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Beyond 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...

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Five 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...

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Shut 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...

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Don’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...

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Chinese 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...

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Lessons 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...

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GRAS 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...

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Fighting 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...

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All 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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