Do you care where your food came from?
Wouldn’t you like to know if the ground meat you’ve purchased came from a Middle Eastern country where camels out number cattle 500 to 1?
How about those dried banana chips from someplace in the center of Washington state or coffee beans from Canada?
And can anyone really know exactly [...]

Apparently, Pepsi and Coca-Cola may be introducing new beverages sweetened with an extract from a Latin American plant that the locals call sugar leaf, but the PhDs say is stevia. Those selling it commercially have named it Rebiana and claim it’s between 200 to 300 times sweeter than sugar.
No so fast, cautions the Center for [...]

Bogus fish. Trashy low-cost cuts sold as high quality gourmet fish in restaurants and markets.

Activists on all sides are taking positions of FDA ruling to permit the irradiation of only two produce. EA. Coli and salmonella may died, but many worry the veggies will wilt.

EPA’s top gun, Steve Johnson, is arriving in Seattle and will address his loyal troops in the morning before inspecting his Navy in the afternoon.
In a note theoretically from the administrator to his gaggle of overworked environmental protectors, Johnson invited the gang from region 10 to his “in-person, informal dialogues” which he is calling “Ask [...]

We do a lot of griping and finger-pointing when it comes to pesticides used in food production. It’s obvious that we don’t want to feed our kids anything doused with the best that Monsanto, Dow, Bayer and other corporations in the “better living through chemistry” club crank out. But neither do most of the [...]

I wouldn’t want to try to kid anyone and imply that I was a close friend of Julia Child, but I knew she was a spy.
So I wasn’t really surprised at the field day the international media had yesterday when the National Archives unclassified files identifying Child, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg and nearly [...]

This is a rough week for Whole Foods Markets because this morning they announced their second product recall.
Earlier, they recalled ground beef possibly tainted with E. coli. Today, the chain is recalling 365 Organic Everyday Value Popcorn, Lightly Salted because it may contain undeclared milk ingredients that aren’t listed in the label.
“People who have an [...]

The absence of our elected lawmakers creates a vacuum that is often filled with White House mischief, for example, the president, any president, can and has appointed people to senior government positions or judgeships who never would have survived the confirmation process. asbestos, diacetyl, health rules

Shoppers are living with a repetitive drumbeat of federal government announcements that food being sold by the nation’s largest grocery chains could sicken or kill those who consume it. Many consumers are concerned that the weekly chore of filling the larder has become a game of Russian roulette with E. coli, salmonella and other foodborne diseases going to the loser. However, the head of the US Department of Agriculture, said today that the food safety world is in good shape.