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• in Politics
  Why We Need a Food Police
  The USDA wants to limit the amount of potato dishes served in school cafeterias. Drastic times call for drastic measures.
  by allisonmidorireilly / on May 20, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “food policy”

 

• Antimicrobial Data Collection Act

  
  Eat. Drink. Better. — Authority: 484
  Earlier this month, three Senators submitted a bill to require the FDA to report on data about the use of antimicrobial drugs in livestock. The Antimicrobial Data Collection Act (S.895) intends “to improve the ability of the Food and Drug Administration to study the use of antimicrobial drugs in food-producing ...
  2 days ago

• New Study by USDA, FDA Aims to Enhance Food Safety in Retail Delis – Risk Assessment Targets Listeria monocytogenes (Lm)

  
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  To help minimize the public health burden of listeriosis, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the  U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)  have conducted a major study to better understand the risk of foodborne illness associated with eating certain foods prepared in retail delicatessens and ...
  1 week ago

• Bananas for Mother’s Day

  
  Thought Food — Authority: 125
  Flowers are traditional, yes, but this Mother’s Day I am thinking about bananas. Specifically, the plan to grow iron fortified bananas in India.This plan, predictably, is being met with resistance in some quarters . But, first, some background: India is the world’s largest producer of  bananas and almost all ...
  1 week ago

• TN’s Attorney General Calls Ag-Gag Bill ‘Constitutionally Suspect’

  
  Eat. Drink. Better. — Authority: 484
  The governor’s office has been inundated by pleas for a veto, from thousands of citizens, religious leaders , defenders of free speech and people working against animal cruelty . Now TN’s Attorney General Robert Cooper has also chimed in against Tennessee’s ag-gag bill, calling it constitutionally ...
  1 week ago

• GMO Update: VT Labeling Bill Passes Committee, Heads for House Vote

  
  Eat. Drink. Better. — Authority: 484
  Yesterday Vermont’s House Judiciary committee  approved H. 112 , which would require labeling of foods containing genetically modified ingredients . The VT House of Representatives will vote on the bill later this week. It isn’t expected to pass this year, due to time constraints: the legislative session ...
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• More Than Just The Corners of Our Fields

  
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  As a fellow Eisendrath Legislative Assistant, Raechel Banks, wrote yesterday , “There are many ways to ‘share our bread with the hungry’ (Isaiah 58:7).” She discussed a very tangible  way of helping to combat hunger in our midst (I still have blisters on my fingers from cutting potatoes for 3 hours ...
  2 weeks ago

• America’s Immune Response to GMOs

  
  Eat. Drink. Better. — Authority: 484
  In his excellent book Blessed Unrest noted author and entrepreneur Paul Hawken describes the millions of groups worldwide—“ranging from neighborhood organizations to well-funded international organizations”—working to protect the environment and fighting for social justice and human rights. Hawken says that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Quotes and Optimism From Michael Pollan on Cooked Book Tour

  
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  On Sunday night, I headed to Elmhurst College with Emily Paster to hear Michael Pollan discuss his latest book, Cooked . Although I’m a big fan of Michael Pollan, I was a tad apprehensive. I was tired, mind churning with the planning to get through the busy week that would begin in the morning. I wasn’t ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Price of Fear

  
  Thought Food — Authority: 125
  An interesting piece on the price we pay for our fears, in The European Magazine . This question is central today in much of the issues being debated in the food world. There is distrust of biotechnology because there is no way to prove that they are “completely” safe. If its not food, then its public ...
  3 weeks ago

• Parke Wilde’s Food Policy is now out

  
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  For those of us who teach food policy and politics, a new textbook is most welcome, especially when it comes from Parke Wilde.  Wilde is now a professor at Tufts and a food policy blogger , but I first met him years ago when he was a reporter for the Community Nutrition Institute’s Nutrition Week . His first ...
  3 weeks ago

• GMO Update: National Labeling Bills Introduced in House and Senate

  
  Eat. Drink. Better. — Authority: 484
  Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Ca.) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D. Ore.) introduced legislation yesterday that would require labeling of all foods containing GMO ingredients. Unlike California’s Prop 37 , which attempted to tackle the issue last November, The Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act would require ...
  3 weeks ago

• Vegans rejoice! U.S. meat consumption has been falling since 2004!

  
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  Per Parke Wilde at U.S. Food Policy blog, we as a country have been eating fewer cows, chicken, and pigs since peak meat-eating in 2004 (chicken-eating peaked in 2006). The vegans are winning! Sort of. Beef consumption peaked in 2002 and has fallen about 12 percent since then.  Pork consumption peaked in about ...
  4 weeks ago

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