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February 5, 2009
People Will Always Need to Eat
People will always need food, a fact that will help farmers weather the economic downturn better than many others.[AP]British police found 15 suspected illegal immigrants covered in cocoa powder in the back of a truck en route to the Mars chocolate factory.[CNN]New secretary of agriculture Tom Vilsa ... More >>
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February 9, 2009
Starbucks Trying to Seem Affordable
In an attempt to seem recession-affordable, Starbucks is rolling out a new breakfast pairing promotion where $3.95 will get you a latte and and an oatmeal or coffee cake.[WSJ]In Indiana, a rising demand for local, organic produce is resulting in a big increase in the number of small farms.[Chicago T ... More >>
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February 12, 2009
No Hooves for Jamon Iberico
Following a USDA ruling, all Spanish Iberico hams must now come into the country with their telltale black hooves removed, meaning that the already expensive ham will cost twice as much. [Serious Eats]A UK-based aviation research organization says airline food has improved over the last five years. ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 27, 2009
NOT NATURAL
A new documentary on how our food gets made
News
December 30, 2003
Slaughterhouse Jive
Where's the Beef? Good Question.
News
December 30, 2003
Slaughterhouse Politics
Ranchers Fought Rules That Might Have Prevented Mad Cow
News
December 21, 2004
Homeland Insecurity
The American empire goes for broke—and it could be heading that way
NYC Life
February 1, 2005
Yolking Around
At dinnertime, eggs is the new meat
NYC Life
June 28, 2005
Fruit on the Bottom
A different kind of food pyramid
Blogs
March 27, 2009
Ethiopia Stops Coffee Flow
Only five out of 40 foods can be traced all the way through the supply chain, according to investigators from the Health and Human Services office. The faulty system could undermine our ability to solve a disease outbreak or bioterrorism attack. [AP via Google] The Agriculture Department will dole ... More >>
People
November 1, 2005
Beyond Organic
Farmers say the O word is not what it used to be
News
February 22, 2005
Pharm Aid
Genetically altered corn, banned for health reasons, pops up in U.S. aid shipments to Guatemala
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August 21, 2009
Jell-O as the Perfect Recession Food; The High Price of Cheap Food
Could Jell-O be the perfect food in these tough economic times? At $1.09 for a box of Jell-O or $1.59 for a box of unflavored Knox gelatin, it's cheaper and easier than many desserts. [Salon] The recent comprehensive review of organic food that resulted in the conclusion that it's not more n ... More >>
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August 31, 2009
If Tomato Blight Wasn't Bad Enough...
Farms have not had an easy time of it this year, according to a report just released by the Agriculture Department. The report states that net farm income is forecast to plummet 38 percent in 2009, "$9 billion below the average of $63.2 billion in net farm income earned in the previous 10 years." ... More >>
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October 5, 2009
Latest Thing to Be Afraid Of: Ground Beef
Good morning! Thinking you might have a burger for lunch? Probably not after reading the Sunday Times story of 22-year-old Stephanie Smith, who got bloody diarrhea, seizure, a coma, and paralyzed from E. coli traced to a hamburger her mother made for her from a pack of frozen "American Chef's ... More >>
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November 16, 2009
Last Year, 14.6 Percent of American Families Went Hungry
Just in time for Thanksgiving comes a report from the Agriculture Department stating that the percentage of families who "had difficulty providing enough food for all their members due to a lack of resources" rose from 11.1 percent in 2007 to 14.6 percent in 2008.
Blogs
November 20, 2009
The Blogroll Gazette: Big Gay Ice Cream Men Face Guy Fieri; Yet Another Freight Elevator Lunch
This week in food blogs... Eat Me Daily sent the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck's Doug Quint and Bryan Petroff to the Guy Fieri Road Show to witness flair bartending and a pork-cooking encore. The Food Section unearths a new site called TasteStopping that solely publishes food photographs rejected by oth ... More >>
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November 29, 2009
The Bronx tops food stamp list
New York Times graphicBronx County, with a 13.3% unemployment rate, has joined Hidalgo County, TX as the US counties of their size with the greatest share of people receiving food stamps at 29%. Nationally, 1 in 8 adults and one in 4 children are using food stamps, according to data collected ... More >>
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December 14, 2009
Legal Complaint Filed Against Dean Foods for Trying to Pass Off Non-Organic Soy Milk as Organic
Back in the early days of 2009, Dean Foods, the manufacturer of Silk soymilk, quietly changed the soybeans in Silk from organic to conventional without altering the product's packaging and barcodes, perhaps hoping that consumers wouldn't notice or care. Now, the Cornucopia Institute, a nonpro ... More >>
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January 25, 2010
U.S. to Relax Its Haggis Ban: Lamb's Lungs All Around!
zoonabar/flickrBehold, the chieftain o' the puddin' race. Just in time for Burns Night, and the U.S. government has bestowed upon haggis lovers a gift unequaled since Bobby Burns first immortalized the stuffed, boiled sheep's stomach in Address to a Haggis.
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February 4, 2010
Pork Rinds Are the Hot Snack of Moment; Nut Roasters Are Disappearing from the City
Johanna Kolodny is the in-house forager for Print, the restaurant in the new Ink 48 hotel, where she has brought in chestnuts from the forestry department of the University of Missouri and Greek-style yogurt from upstate New York. [NY Times] Pork rinds -- or pigskins -- are becoming the snac ... More >>
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February 16, 2010
USDA Closes Its Organic Milk Loophole
markhillary/flickrBack in 2002, the USDA instituted a set of organics rules that stated that cows must have access to pasture. This created a whopping loophole that allowed big producers to sell so-called organic milk from cows who weren't fed much -- if anything -- in the way of actual pastu ... More >>
Blogs
July 8, 2010
E. Coli Tracking: There Is Now a Product Recall App
Follow E. coli here, there, any everywhere!Can't keep track of whether it's spinach or peanut butter that's tainted with salmonella, or which industrial food product E. Coli's worked its way into week? The FDA wants to help. It's teamed up with the Department of Agriculture, the Consumer Prod ... More >>
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July 27, 2010
Mike Bloomberg Issues Ultimatum: "It's Geese or Human Beings"
via New York TimesYou've probably heard that a whole bunch of Canada geese were exterminated earlier this month, since they have an unfortunate tendency, when not minding their own business in Prospect Park, to occasionally fly into planes. Even poor Sticky, the goose shot with an arrow who w ... More >>
Blogs
July 30, 2010
Americans' Spice Consumption Skyrockets
Every now and then there is good news on All Things Considered. NPR reports that Americans' consumption of spices has grown almost three times as fast as the population--the U.S. Department of Agriculture says that we use 600 percent more chile, 300 percent more cumin, and 1,600 percent more ... More >>
Blogs
October 7, 2010
Bloomberg's Food-Stamp Soda Ban: Illegal, Immoral, Fattening?
If you've been remotely awake today (or at least clicking on your morning Runnin' Scared links), you're no doubt aware that Mayor Bloomberg has asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to allow New York City to bar its 1.7 million citizens with food-stamp cards from using them to buy soda. "T ... More >>
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October 8, 2010
Bloomberg's Soda Ban: It Depends What You Mean By "Improve"
In this corner: Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to grant New York City a two-year waiver to ban the purchase of soda with food-stamp cards, saying it's a matter of public health. In the far corner: Joel Berg, New York Coalition Against Hunger director ... More >>
Blogs
November 7, 2010
Cheese Lobby is Making America Fat on Behalf of the Government
The United States Department of Agriculture is pairing with businesses like Domino's Pizza and Taco Bell to make you fat by loading up already bad food with more cheese. They're doing it through a middle man, Dairy Management, a "marketing creation" of the government, which is responsible for ... More >>
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December 29, 2010
Meat to Ring in New Year With Nutritional Labels
dawnofanewera.wordpress.comFile under Things You Probably Don't Want to Know: beginning on Jan. 1, meat will carry the same nutritional labels found on just about everything else you can buy in the supermarket.
Blogs
January 3, 2011
A New E. Coli-Tainted Beef Recall for the New Year
Three days into 2011, the nation has landed its first food recall. Once again, E. coli has reared its nasty, sadly predictable little head, this time in organic beef. Per the USDA, the California-based First Class Foods has recalled some 34,373 pounds of the stuff due to suspected contaminati ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2011
Lawsuit Claims That Taco Bell's Meat Is Indeed a Mystery
Robert SietsemaNo, you don't want to know what's inside that burrito.This shouldn't really come as a surprise, but according to a lawsuit filed in Alabama, the "meat" used in Taco Bell dishes isn't really meat.
Blogs
January 25, 2011
Taco Bell Says Lawsuit Is 'Absolutely Wrong'
Taco BellHoo, boy.Following this morning's news of the class-action lawsuit claiming that what Taco Bell calls "beef" doesn't meet the USDA's minimum requirements for anything called "beef" or "seasoned ground beef," the company is doing damage control.
Blogs
January 31, 2011
USDA Dietary Guidelines: Eat Less Crap
El Gran Dee/FlickrHere's looking at you.The USDA published its 2010 Dietary Guidelines today. The takeaway: eat less crap.
Blogs
February 2, 2011
Pepperoni Still Tops in Pizza; Tea Is Hot
Despite the proliferation of artisanal pizza joints with their delicate imported toppings, pepperoni is still the most popular pizza topping in America. [NY Times] Le Cirque is expanding to India with a new location scheduled to open soon in New Delhi's Leela Palace Hotel. [NY Post] Apparen ... More >>
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February 3, 2011
Food Business Incubator Coming to Brooklyn; Cupcake Craze Goes Savory
Maine lawmakers are trying to decide whether to make the whoopie pie the state's official dessert. The sole opposition is a Democrat worried about glorifying a product made with lard. [AOL News] A food-focused "business incubator" is planned for one of Brooklyn's lower-income neighborhoods, ... More >>
Blogs
April 15, 2011
Goose Assassin Hired by New York City Department of Sanitation
When federal agents slaughtered more than 250 geese in Prospect Park midway through the summer last year, boxing them up and tossing them into a gas chamber under the cover of darkness, we hoped the worst was over. But according to a new report in the Brooklyn Paper, the city is going after t ... More >>
Blogs
May 6, 2011
What the USDA's New Food Desert Locator Means to NYC
No food deserts here.In an effort to acknowledge struggling communities around the country, the USDA has launched its new food desert locator. For the purposes of this interactive map, food deserts have been defined as "low-income census tracts where a substantial number or share of residents ... More >>
Blogs
May 25, 2011
A Look at Who Is Really Responsible for All These Food Trucks; Oscar Mayer Sued for False Health Claims
The Shanghai Stainless Product & Design Company on Gerry Street in Brooklyn is the place to go for your brand new haute food truck. They've done trucks for Korilla BBQ, Red Hook Lobster Pound, Treats Truck, and Van Leeuwen. [NY Times] Colicchio & Sons will run a beer garden on the forthcomin ... More >>
Blogs
June 8, 2011
Bottle Service Is Back, Baby; Upscale Restos Do Fast Food
Jason Wang of Xi'an Famous Foods and Jonel Picioane of the Ridgewood Pork Store and the Sunnyside Meat Market are examples of second generations in food families taking their businesses into the 21st century. [NY Times] Au Bon Pain has announced a redesign to stores and a menu expansion that ... More >>
Blogs
June 8, 2011
Basically, the American Meat Institute Wants Us to Eat Shit and Die
Nothing to see here, folks!Europe is currently in the grip of what has become one of the deadliest E. coli outbreaks in history. As one might imagine, that has inspired some soul-searching here in the United States. Food-safety experts have spent years trying to persuade the USDA to step up E ... More >>
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June 20, 2011
Pulque a Big Hit With Mexican Hipsters; Congress Makes Cuts to Food Safety Program
Young Mexico City hipsters are reviving an old Aztec drink called pulque, made by fermenting the heart of the blue maguey plant. [Washington Post] Produce can be certified organic by the USDA even if it's sprayed with pesticides, as long as the chemicals are derived from nature. [NPR] Small ... More >>
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June 20, 2011
Organic Food Is Often Grown With Organic Pesticides
Muffet/FlickrBummer.Well, here's a bit of news guaranteed to make shopping at the Park Slope Food Co-op a little less smug: turns out that even organic produce can contain commercial pesticides.
Blogs
June 28, 2011
People Seem to Have No Idea What to Do With Fresh Produce
Smorgasburg's food artisans (or "fartisans," as we like to call them) love to advertise their use of farmers' market produce. At this point, it's more or less become gastronomically incorrect not to. But, in one of the more poignant instances of irony we've seen in awhile, these artisanal pre ... More >>
Blogs
July 8, 2011
Greenmarket Vendors Can Once Again Cut the Cheese
Refracted Moments/FlickrFans of both cheese and reason can breathe a sigh of relief: The state Department of Agriculture and Market is once again letting Greenmarket vendors cut their cheese.
Blogs
July 19, 2011
Meat Eater's Guide Reveals Carbon Footprint of Your Steak, Chicken, Cheese Platter
How is eating meat like driving? This handy graphic says it all. Did you know that eating cheese is worse for the environment than eating pork? And eating fish is less eco-friendly than eating chicken? (Sorry, pescatarians and dairy-friendly vegetarians.) Learn more fun facts about the carbon ... More >>
Blogs
July 29, 2011
Now That The Food Pyramid's Gone, Maybe the Food Label Will Follow
Renee WalkerEarlier this summer, the USDA retired its food pyramid, which was getting a little long in the tooth, in favor of a food plate. And while it's been praised for its relative clarity and lack of crudely drawn livestock, the food nutrition label has continued to confuse people. But n ... More >>
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August 15, 2011
New Super-Preservative Discovered; No Food Deserts in NYC?
Mushrooms have been added to the growing list of foods suspected of radiation poisoning in Japan. [Bloomberg] Researchers have discovered a preservative, called bisin, that could extend the food's (and wine's) lifespan for years, even without refrigeration. [Daily Mail] As more and more pr ... More >>
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September 16, 2011
Harvard to USDA: Our Plate Is Better Than MyPlate
Harvard School of Public Health Last June, the USDA replaced its long-suffering food guide pyramid with the more plain-spoken MyPlate. Its merits quickly became a source of debate among nutritionists and public policy types, including those at the Harvard School of Public Health. And now sci ... More >>
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October 4, 2011
Cheesecake Factory Ranked Consumer Fave, Again; Only 2% of Food Imports Inspected
Kraft is recalling three flavors of Velveeta Shells & Cheese single-serve microwaveable cups due to possible thin wire bristle pieces in the cups. [Chicago Tribune] In a widespread market survey, consumers ranked The Cheesecake Factory their favorite casual-dining restaurant for the second y ... More >>
Blogs
January 10, 2012
USDA Shutters Hundreds of Outposts
The agency that helps farmers and ranchers -- and basically just makes sure that the country's food production goes smoothly and that Americans are fed -- is shutting down hundreds of regional offices to save money, the Associated Press reports.
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