[NOTE: The Cornucopia Institute is one of 109 organizations to sign this important letter.] The Hill by Lydia Wheeler Source: Everjean Consumer, food and health groups are calling on the CEOs of the nation’s top 25 restaurant chains to only serve meat and poultry that’s free of antibiotics. In a letter signed by 109 organizations… Read more »
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Sick Cows/Sick People – The Grass-fed Antidote
Sick Cows The Grass-fed Antidote Image: Marc Cesario, Meeting Place Pastures in Cornwall, VT Almost all of the beef available in supermarkets across the country comes from sick cows that pose a significant risk to human health. The Cornucopia Institute, a national food and farm policy research group, has just released a video educating consumers… Read more »
USDA Could Take the Environment Into Account in Its Next Dietary Guidelines
Will the US government incorporate environmental impacts into dietary guidelines for the first time? Or will it blink? The Guardian by Garrett Hering Aurora Coldwater Dairy in Stratford, Texas When a federal advisory committee created the first federal proposal to explore the relationship between nutrition and the environmental impacts of the American diet in December,… Read more »
Nutrition Buzzwords Make Hay Out of Grains of Truth
Washington Post By Melissa Bell The plastic soup can looks as if it’s a single-size meal, a healthful lunch option for one hurried customer. But the nutrition label on the back says otherwise. Gummy fruit snacks show a shower of strawberries on the label, which reads “naturally fruit flavored.” Customers would be hard-pressed to find… Read more »
Food Companies Pledge Not to Use Clones
The Wall Street Journal By JANE ZHANG and JULIE JARGON Twenty food companies have told a consumer group that they won’t use milk or meat from cloned livestock. The companies, including Smithfield Foods Inc. and Kraft Foods Inc., were responding to a survey conducted by the Center for Food Safety, a consumer group that opposes… Read more »
The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
New York Times Magazine By Michael Moss On the evening of April 8, 1999, a long line of Town Cars and taxis pulled up to the Minneapolis headquarters of Pillsbury and discharged 11 men who controlled America’s largest food companies. Nestlé was in attendance, as were Kraft and Nabisco, General Mills and Procter & Gamble,… Read more »
Meat Glue Turns Scraps into Prime Cuts of Meat
International Business Times by Kelsey Murray When I go to the grocery store and buy steak, I assume that what I’m buying is a prime cut piece of meat. However, a new report shows that consumers are being misled about the quality of their meats and even lied to about what it is that they… Read more »
Food Inspectors Overwhelmed by Workload
Chicago Tribune By Stephen J. Hedges | Washington Bureau WASHINGTON – As alarm bells sounded for the second-largest hamburger recall in history, the nation’s top food safety officials were in Miami setting the “course for the next 100 years of food safety.” The fact that so many U.S. Department of Agriculture executives were in Florida… Read more »
Grocer Works to Repair Its Image
Whole Foods Tightens Inspection Rules After Beef Recall The Washington Post By Ylan Q. Mui and Annys Shin Whole Foods said yesterday that it is inspecting all shipments of meat and tightening its guidelines for suppliers following last week’s recall of two months’ worth of ground beef that potentially was contaminated with E. coli. The… Read more »
How Cows (Grass-Fed Only) Could Save the Planet
TIME By Lisa Abend On a farm in coastal Maine, a barn is going up. Right now it’s little more than a concrete slab and some wooden beams, but when it’s finished, the barn will provide winter shelter for up to six cows and a few head of sheep. None of this would be remarkable… Read more »
