If you’re like us you care about what’s in your food. That’s why we always have an ear open for people who are doing work in that direction. Currently in Washington State, Food and Water Watch are gathering support to get the widespread use of antibiotics out of farming. Their goal is to get Senator …
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Leave a CommentAccording to Ballotpedia, Oregon’s Initiative 92, which would have required labeling of certain foods that are produced with or contain genetically modified ingredients, was narrowly defeated on November 4. 2014. However, the final margin of defeat was only 809 votes, so the measure will go to an automatic recount which could begin as early as …
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Leave a CommentI highly recommend the recent New York Times article by Mark Bittman entitled “Dont ask how to feed the 9 billion”. In the article and during a subsequent talk he gave at the New York Times sponsored “Food for Tomorrow” conference, Bittman simply and clearly debunks the myth that only industrial agriculture can feed the …
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According to a July 31, 2014 article in the New York Times, the US Department of Agriculture has just released new rules for inspections during processing of poultry. Couple o’ highlights: 1) Poultry processing plants will now be responsible for inspecting themselves. 2) New rules would set the maximum speed of processing lines at inspection …
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On Tuesday the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that they would begin enforcing rules that ban all cheeses that are aged on wooden boards, a move that would effectively outlaw many American and French artisan cheeses. Then today, they changed their collective mind. Apparently the public outcry that greeted this announcement was so …
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Leave a CommentEfforts to require labels on Genetically Engineered foods (often refereed to as GM or GE foods) advanced in the far ends of the U.S. this week. And in Oregon’s Jackson County, a mostly rural area that includes part of the Rogue Vally, a Farm Bill will soon be decided that would go even further. Vermont …
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Leave a Comment“A food-safety advocacy group demanded on Friday that the U.S. government investigate how a Washington state alfalfa crop became tainted with a genetically modified trait that was illegal when the seed was purchased.” Reuter’s , September 27, 2013 According to a recent article in Reuters, a Washington State farmer has filed suit against Monsanto. Seems …
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A friend recently forwarded me this article by Kenneth Chang in the NY Times which discusses efforts by scientists at the University of Florida’s Institute for Plant Innovation to built a better tasting tomato that can still be mass marketed. In this case, the methods to be used are plain old selective breeding, backed up …
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Leave a CommentPlease join us for a Conversation about We at Cafe Presse and Le Pichet feel that it is very important to know what is in the foods we eat. Therefore, Cafe Presse will be hosting two meetings to talk about the upcoming vote on Initial 522 which would require labeling of GMO foods. Do …
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It’s not easy to be a bee The news on the bee front is going from bad to worse. As discussed in an earlier post on this blog, bee populations throughout the world and particularly in Europe and North America, have been under pressure for the last decade. Now come reports of more bad news. …
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