The U.S. Department of Agriculture briefly suspended poultry processing at one of the biggest Foster Farms plants in California because it was infested with live cockroaches. But Bill Marler asks, why does the U.S.D.A. and its food inspection service have the authority to shutter a plant for cockroaches but not for salmonella?
Japan has Mountain Dew-flavored Cheetos.
Angered by what he considers Japan’s efforts to sweep away the inconvenient truths of a nuclear disaster, a rancher has returned to the no-man’s land near Fukushima plant to take care of the abandoned cows there.
Many dairy producers seem oddly addicted to the practice of cutting their cows’ tails off.
Just days after the pork giant Smithfield Foods offered incentives for contract hog farmers to move away from gestation crates, Tyson Foods said it was urging its growers to stop the controversial practice or take other steps to improve animal care. Meanwhile: Factory farms are accelerating an antibiotics nightmare, and political ties help it happen. In fact, commodity agriculture and the vast network of global corporations behind it is just as bad as the meth trade in Iowa.
McDonald’s announced plans to begin purchasing “verified sustainable” beef by 2016. Of course no one knows what that means, exactly; but whatever it is, it could be big.
The beverage industry’s economic fearmongering is trying to use the rising cost of living in San Francisco as an excuse to attack the proposed soda tax there.
via:http://bittman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/28/what-were-reading-now-12/
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