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Tallahassee, FL: Sustainable Food Petition

During my trip to the farmers’ market, this past weekend, I was asked to sign an atta-boy petition to the Commissioner of Agriculture, Adam Putnam. Commissioner Putnam is small-farm friendly and the...

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Food Safety: Arsenic Laced Apple Juice

Image via Wikipedia This is disturbing: According to an article in the Food Safety News, Mott’s Apple Juice from China (#&+@ is everything made in China these days?) is laced with more arsenic...

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Food Terrorism – Killer Cantaloupes

Image via Wikipedia This morning in the grocery store I noticed that cantaloupes were labeled “grown in California” as opposed to the killer cantaloupes grown in Colorado. While I was actually craving...

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Urgent Food Democracy Alert: Label GMOs

Stop! Genetically modified organism(s) - GMO. (Photo credit: Miran Rijavec) The M-word – consumers rights – food labeling – GMOs – food safety An estimated 80% of processed foods contain genetically...

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Food safety: Dog food makes people sick

centre (Photo credit: Wikipedia) As tempting as that bowl of kibble is — don’t eat it. People who handle contaminated dog food or touch an infected dog, especially if they don’t wash their hands...

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Top Five Things to Watch Out For When Buying Organic Foods

As food dangers multiply, organic food is becoming more popular. After all, who doesn’t want to eat food that is free of dangerous pesticides, herbicides and antibiotics? Many people also want to avoid...

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Undercover video, inhumane treatment of cows, hamburger horrors

Ban on downer cows In a nutshell: According to this ABC article, the animal rights group, Compassion Over Killing, filmed an undercover video showing electrically prodded cows and downer animals going...

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Peanut butter executives charged with fraud

Peanut butter is a semi-solid and can therefore hold peaks. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Remember the catastrophic peanut butter recall a few years ago where people died and were sickened with salmonella?...

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FED UP, the Movie – 10 Day Ban Sugar Challenge

Brown Sugar Whipped cream (Photo credit: QuintanaRoo) Yesterday I saw the movie FED UP, a well done documentary about childhood obesity and why kids (and adults) cannot lose weight and keep it off....

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Food Monopoly, High Prices, Less Choices

Food & Water Watch (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Choices. Choices. Why does the supermarket have so many choices? How many kinds of mustard, margarine and mayo do we really want need? The problem is...

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