Where is the sustainable supply of higher-standard eggs, meat, and dairy going to come from?
Source: Fast-Food Chains Are Demanding Ethical Products. How Will Farmers Keep Up? – Eater
More and more people are getting sick.
Source: Cucumber-Related Salmonella Outbreak Grows to 30 States – Eater
The shellfish appear to be an important link in the transmission of norovirus among humans, according to research from China.
Source: Oysters May Serve as Link in Transmission of Norovirus – The New York Times
If you want to see the future of agriculture, look up.
Source: Is Vertical Farming the Future of Food? | Lucky Peach
Fair trade? Direct trade? Shade grown? Here’s what it all means, and which of it is nonsense. (Spoiler: a lot of it is nonsense.)
The restaurant closed briefly due to a “staffing shortage.”
Source: More Than 60 People Sickened After Eating at a California Chipotle – Eater
When food is made with love, you can taste it. So it goes with Benton’s Country Ham, a North Madisonville, Tennessee-based business that produces what many call the best bacon in the country.
via A Day In The Life Of Alan Benton, America’s Unofficial King Of Bacon.
The Food and Drug Administration is banning imports of some fresh cilantro from Puebla, Mexico, after a government investigation found human feces and toilet paper in growing fields there.
The FDA announced the partial ban Monday after cilantro imported from the state of Puebla was linked to 2013 and 2014 outbreaks of stomach illnesses in the United States. The FDA said health authorities in Texas and Wisconsin also suspect cilantro from the region is responsible for more illnesses this year.
Following up on the outbreaks, U.S. and Mexican health authorities investigated 11 farms and packing houses in Puebla over the last three years. The FDA said it discovered “objectionable conditions” at eight of those firms, including five that were linked to the U.S. outbreaks. The FDA said the officials discovered the feces and toilet paper in fields and found that some of the farms had no running water or toilet facilities.
via FDA Bans Some Mexican Cilantro After Human Feces Found In Fields.
Food companies would not have to disclose whether their products include genetically modified ingredients under legislation passed by the House Thursday.
The House bill is backed by the food industry, which has fought mandatory labeling efforts in several states around the country. The legislation, which passed 275-150, would prevent states from requiring package labels to indicate the presence of genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.
via Government Says Food Companies Don’t Have To Disclose GMOs.
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