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

New Rules Blast Organic Livestock Farmers!

07Dec08

Unfortunately, it has taken the groups that represent organic farmers over 30 days just to understand the true meaning of the complex USDA draft rule and to develop the many needed and major revisions. While the draft rule that the USDA presented would effectively clamp down on factory farm scofflaws, it would also probably put out of business the majority of all family-scale livestock farmers in the United States. This is unacceptable.

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Tags: Agriculture, business, department, family, farmer, industry, livestock, organic, regulation, regulatory, USDA

Genetic Engineering in Your Food – Things You Need to Know

06Nov08

What in the world are we eating? As we shop the grocery store aisles or peruse the menu at a restaurant, we are becoming more and more aware that we really don’t always know what we’re eating. A big unknown is whether or not our food has been genetically engineered. Over and over again, polls show that consumers would dearly love to have genetically engineered food labelled, but governments have backed away from mandating labels. So what’s a consumer to do?

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Tags: Agriculture, cultivation, deception, dna, farmer, farming, Food, gene, genetic engineering, gmo, label, lmo, monsanto, regulation, seed, transparency

Tell USDA: No GE Papaya!

01Nov08

Tell USDA: No GE Papaya! October 31, 2008 Dear Blog Reader & Concerned Citizen (yes, that’s YOU!), Tell USDA: No GE Papaya! The US Department of Agriculture is considering a petition to allow genetically engineered papaya trees to be commercially grown and sold in Florida. This would be the first time this genetically engineered crop [...]

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Tags: action, engineer, GE, genetic, living, modified, organisms, papaya, petition, regulation, United States, US, USDA