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ethicurean.com - 2/4/2009
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ethicurean.com —
On Friday we published the first half of
this epic attempt to compile a list of specific...
actions the new USDA could undertake in its first six months that would offer significant payoff in terms of real changes in the food system. After polling a ...
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Ready, set, go change the food system, part 2: More USDA ...
ethicurean.com - 2/3/2009
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Above: National Agricultural Library archival image , shot
from the Washington Monument in the mid-1920s; US Department...
of Agriculture greenhouses on the Mall are shown in foreground. The food system in this country has broken down like a ...
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Ready, set, go change the food system: A checklist for ...
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Digest - News: Salmonella spreading, tomato bribery, Vilsack gets started
The Ethicurean —
... E. Coli Avenger in running for food-safety czar: Bill Marler is being considered for head of the Food Safety Inspection Service, apparently. But the lead contenders are Caroline Smith–Dewall, food safety director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, and former FSIS administrator Barbara J. Masters, who is currently senior policy adviser at Washington law firm Olsson Frank Weeda Terman Bode Matz PC. (Washington Post) Frankly, we’re as shocked as ...
Food reform, meet climate change
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
... We're in the same position with food. The portents are a bit more present, perhaps, but doom is not yet upon us. On the one hand, as food-safety lawyer (and apparently one time shortlisted candidate for food safety czar) Bill Marler ...
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