Scary Shit: On E. coli & Antibiotic Agriculture
An E.coli outbreak in Germany has, at last count, infected more than 1800 people and killed 22. While the outbreak in Germany has been traced back to tainted bean sprouts, and the United States’ last...
View ArticleA Victory Against E.Coli
… and, I will add to the title of this post, against the industrial meat industry, who lobbied hard against this victory. Yesterday, the USDA announced that as of next spring, six additional strains of...
View ArticleWhat’s Coming for Food in 2012?
Welcome to 2012, We*Meat*Again! Sorry for my lapse in posting, all. The holiday hiatus was more all-consuming than I thought it would be, and I’ve missed a lot of food news. Rather than try to cover it...
View ArticleSuperbugs Transferring From Animals to Humans
This week’s food news included a fairly major discovery in the arena of antibiotic use in modern industrial agriculture. Really, I wanted to write about this story, not because I have much more to say...
View ArticleFDA Restricts Agricultural Antibiotics
I had originally planned to make a pink slime video post for today, but then some big news came from the FDA that seemed important to share right away. I promise to give you all the info you need on...
View ArticleForks Over Knives Review
I’ve been catching up so far this summer on my Netflix instant queue, including watching some of my backlog of food-oriented documentaries, so expect occasional reviews in the coming months (and feel...
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