66% of Chickens Have Dangerous Bugs

01Dec09

About 66% of chickens tested by Consumer Reports still had dangerous bacteria. The take home message: governments still aren’t doing a good enough job and people have to stay sharp and careful with factory farmed food. You’ve got to cook to at least 165 F (74 C) and you have to prevent raw chicken or its juices from touching any other food.

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Tags: antibiotics, campylobacter, CDC, centralization, chickens, disease, factory farming, Food Safety, hospitalization, poultry, salmonella

FDA Admits It Did Only Half the Food Safety Checks

22May09

A frankly distubring article today by Mary Clare Jalonik at the Associated Press.  According to the article, FDA ’conducted only about half the state food safety audits it promised in the two years before the recent peanut salmonella outbreak.’

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Tags: FDA, food and drug administration, Food Safety, regulation

Swine Flu Kills 68 Lightning Fast

25Apr09

The Mexican Outbreak of Swine Flu has killed 68 people and sickened over 1000. Experts are saying it’s only a matter of time before a huge pandemic will break out – similar to the Spanish Flu virus of 1918 that killed 40-50 million people worldwide. Surprisingly no one talks about its links to factory farming or cramming animals in tight spaces so you can cook up something like this. This is another example of how dangerous our broken food system has become.

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Tags: avian flu, CDC, centre for disease control, disease, dna, factory farming, Food, Food Safety, food system, genetic, health, hospital, influenza, Medicine, mexico, organization, outbreak, pandemic, SARS, spanish, swine flu, vaccine, WHO, world

12 Foods To Buy Organic & Clean

28Mar09

Sheryl Eisenberg (This Green Blog) summarizes the latest list put out by the Environmental Working Group, a major US environmental and human health watch dog.

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Tags: chemicals, environmental, ewg, Food Safety, group, healthy living, organics, pesticides, poison, toxic, working

Peanut Butter Scares in Over 40 States!

22Jan09

Peanut butter products continued to disappear from store shelves Tuesday as more grocery chains and specialty companies joined a growing list of precautionary recalls.

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Tags: butter, centralization, contamination, conventional, crackers, distribution, factory, Food Safety, health, industrial, packaging, paste, peanut, processing, salmonella, scares, sourcing

Oppose Tom Vilsack’s Confirmation as Secretary of Agriculture

14Jan09

In spite of 20,00 e-mails from organic consumers and, in apparent contradiction to his announcement that he wants an organic garden at the White House, Obama has chosen Tom Vilsack, a strong bio-tech proponentsupporting genetically engineered crops, cloned animals, etc., to run the Department of Agriculture.
As you will see below, Vilsack is truly Monsanto’s boy. He pre-empted the local votes of towns and counties who had voted to disallow GE seeds!

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Tags: Agriculture, biotech, biotechnology, ethical, Ethics, food bill, Food Safety, Food Sovereignty, food system, frankenfoods, genetically modified organisms, gmo, lmo, secretary of agriculture, technology, Tom Vilsack

Speaker Biographies for the 2009 Organic Conference

11Jan09

The speaker biographies for the ‘Growing for Nourishment’ Nourishing the Future 2009 Organics Conference are up and running for your viewing pleasure.

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Raw Milk Symposium Toronto @ OISE

08Jan09

Raw milk farmer Michael Schmidt and his supporters are hosting an International Raw Milk Symposium during January 31st, 2009 in Toronto at OISE auditorium. The plan is to bring in luminaries in the raw milk movement to address a wide range of topics related to raw milk. The legal side of things will also be addressed. Event is sponsored by the Society for Biodynamic Farming and Gardening in Ontario and the Landowners Association.

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Tags: choice, Food Safety, health, laws, milk, raw, regulations, rights, Society, wellness, whole foods