10 Dec
We’ve heard of Food Inc., (which I have a review of coming soon) well how about Food Gov? It turns out that the USDA has less stringent testing standards for the food sent to school lunch programs than do the private testing regimens of most fast food chains.
In the past three years, the government [...]
23 Apr
Overlawered.com has posted yet another comprehensive report on the developments in Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009. It appears that Representative DeLauro is busy altering the bill to protect “small” producers, and ease the criticism from hordes of organic farmer types, worried that their favorite farmer’s market will soon be shut down.
Personally I still [...]
21 Apr
When I first started hearing about HR 875, it was through alternative agriculture sources, and Nigerian style email messages. I started giving the concerns over it more weight as it started showing up more frequently. Reason has a very good article that not only lists some of the hype and concerns over the [...]
10 Apr
Won’t somebody stop the madness, we can’t have all this uninspected food going around! A story, (taken from the HitNRun) regarding the menace that is charity food stuffs. From WSJ, the story of the crackdown on unregulated baked goods, and how our benevolent government has saved us from yet another food borne scourge. I feel [...]
7 Apr
A double dose of similar stories today, both dealing with the regulatory hurdles that hinder economic diversity on small farms that would like to snag some of that retail dollar for themselves.
The first, (which I’m stealing outright from oklavore) details the problems faced by a pair of former Minnesota dairy farmers, and the trouble they [...]
19 Mar
So you want that lamb slaughtered before the weekend and there’s to much of a line at the USDA inspected processor, or better yet, some city boy wants to by one of your pigs for his barbecue, but neither of you have the time or inclination to slaughter it? Then you call a guy [...]
3 Mar
The Mother Earth folk have a small story on the crackdowns on Raw Milk bought by willing consumers from small independent dairy farmers. In a transaction that is simply incapable of producing a large, industrial food style outbreak, based on the small numbers involved.
Family and customers of Mark Nolt, a Pennsylvania farmer, watched in [...]
2 Mar
We’re repeatedly told how Obama and Co want to beef up food regulations and labeling laws, all for our own good.
WASHINGTON (AP)–The Obama administration is calling for stricter labels on fresh meat and other foods that would show more clearly where an animal or food came from.
Of course, they might want to take a better [...]
21 Jan
A comprehensive, (but very long) article detailing the modern incarnation of commercial beef from the well meaning hippies at Mother Earth News.
Be warned, the hippies have a slow server at times.
*In the interest of full disclosure, my freezer is currently filled with a naturally raised, chemical free steer. You could come over, I [...]
