“Pink Slime” Lawsuit May be Frivolous, But Could Chill Speech
To no one’s surprise, Beef Products Inc. (BPI) – maker of the ground beef product that took on the moniker of “pink slime” – filed a defamation lawsuit earlier this month against ABC News and several...
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Booth displays at Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Expo. (photos by Andy Bellatti) I recently attended the annual gathering of the largest trade group of nutrition professionals, which I also covered...
View ArticleServing Science or Monsanto?
Timing of AAAS statement on GMO labeling is highly suspicious With about a week to go before California voters head to the polls to decide the fate of Proposition 37, which would require GMO foods to...
View ArticleLies, Dirty Tricks, and $45 Million Kill GMO Labeling in California
California’s Proposition 37, which would have required labeling of GMO foods, died a painful death last night. Despite polling in mid-September showing an overwhelming lead, the measure lost by 53 to...
View ArticleDid You Eat Today? Thank a Food Worker
The most under-reported and neglected aspect of the good food movement is the 20 million workers who toil every day—often under inhumane conditions—harvesting fields, killing and cutting up animals,...
View ArticleHow the Other NRA is Making Us Sick
This week, food labor advocate Saru Jayaraman is releasing her new book, Behind the Kitchen Door, which relates heartbreaking stories of just some of the 10 million restaurant workers in the U.S. In...
View ArticleTop 10 Reasons to Care About Food Workers
This week, with the release of Saru Jayaraman’s new book, Behind the Kitchen Door, I’ve been writing about the powerful influence of the National Restaurant Association, for example, in lobbying...
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Feds Playing Politics with Food Safety is Enough to Make You Sick
Rarely does the mainstream media bother to connect the dots when it comes to our broken food safety system. Consider these two recent headlines: • Foodborne Outbreaks Falling Short of U.S. Reduction...
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Center for Food Safety Sues Feds for Stalling on Food Safety Rules
In my role as policy consultant for the Center for Food Safety (CFS), I recently wrote about how the Obama Administration is playing politics and putting public health at risk by stalling on critical...
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“Pink Slime” Lawsuit May be Frivolous, But Could Chill Speech
To no one’s surprise, Beef Products Inc. (BPI) – maker of the ground beef product that took on the moniker of “pink slime” – filed a defamation lawsuit earlier this month against ABC News and several...
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How Did My Profession’s Conference Get Hijacked by Big Food? (Guest post by...
Booth displays at Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Expo. (photos by Andy Bellatti) I recently attended the annual gathering of the largest trade group of nutrition professionals, which I also...
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Monsanto Teams up with Congress to Shred the Constitution
Our founding fathers, white-maleness aside, did get a few things right. One of them was the concept of “separation of powers,” to ensure a system of checks and balances among the three branches of...
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Panelist at Natural Products Expo West on March 7
I am pleased to take part in this panel on March 7 and the Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim. GMO Labeling: Where Are We Now? Washington State, the National FDA Just Label It Effort, and Lessons...
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Fighting the Other NRA – Resources to Support Food Workers
This week I’ve been writing about the National Restaurant Association (the other NRA) and why we should care about food workers, in part to bring attention to the new book Behind the Kitchen Door by...
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Safe, Organic Animal Foods Too Expensive? Eat Less
In an email exchange with Dr. Richard Raymond over my recent article on the massive Cargill recall of Salmonella-tainted ground turkey, the former head of food safety at USDA warned me that a likely...
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Is Outrage Over the Monsanto Protection Act a Turning Point for the Food...
In March, when I first wrote about how the biotech rider—called the Monsanto Protection Act by its vocal opponents—undercut the constitutional concept of separation of powers, it seemed hardly anyone...
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How E. coli became a household word – Poisoned, a book review
For most of us working in food policy, it’s hard to remember a time when food outbreaks of bugs like E. coli didn’t happen pretty much weekly. But reading the new book Poisoned by Jeff Benedict made me...
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Will Germany Crisis Affect USDA Policymaking?
Thanks to Food Safety News for allowing me to cross-post my articles; here is my first. In the midst of what has tragically become the deadliest E. coli outbreak in history, serious questions are being...
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New Policy Consultant for Center for Food Safety
I am thrilled to announce that I am now working part-time with the Center for Food Safety. I’ve admired the work of CFS for years to expose the dark side of the industrial food system (long before it...
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Mercury Bigger Worry than Radiation in Tuna
Few things get a media frenzy going like the combination of two words: radiation and food. Despite the ubiquitous availability of truly unhealthy foods 24/7, just raise the specter of radioactivity on...
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