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Gulf Seafood Safety Still a Concern
Via the Gulf Restoration Network comes this post at the Natural Resources Defense Council, Gulf Shrimp Testing: Is a Dozen Samples in 5000 Square Miles Enough to Reassure You? Gina Solomon writes, Today, NOAA reopened 5,130 square miles of Gulf waters to shrimping and fishing. I took a look at the data on which NOAA [...]
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It’s Exactly This That Concerns Me
Eleven days ago, a major study was published online in the journal Science documenting the existence of a large, deep underwater plume of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill. And while BP and federal officials tout that much of the oil has “disappeared” (thanks, Janet Lubchenco), the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute study shows that the [...]
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Proposed USDA Rules Could Crimp Local Meat
Consumers of local meat, take note. Newly proposed regulations for slaughterhouses, intended to address the contamination at industrial-scale processing plants, could effectively put small processors out of business. Read more at the Chews Wise blog in a post from Joe Cloud, partner in T&E Meats, a small-scale locally focused slaughterhouse in Harrisonburg, VA. The USDA [...]
New Alarm Bells About Chemicals And Cancer
At the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof summarizes a report released this week by the President’s Cancer Panel (currently made up of two physicians appointed by President George W. Bush), which “calls on America to rethink the way we confront cancer, including much more rigorous regulation of chemicals.” Kristof writes: “We wanted to let people [...]
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Bill McKibben on Grass-Fed Beef
In the March/April issue of Orion, Bill McKibben writes about the advantages of grass-fed beef, including their ability to sequester carbon by fertilizing grassland.
Packaged Salad Can Contain High Levels of Bacteria
Civil Eats reports that in the March 2010 issue of Consumer Reports, “tests of packaged leafy greens found bacteria that are common indicators of poor sanitation and fecal contamination, in some cases, at rather high levels.” Organic greens fared no better than conventionally grown. Recommendations are (if you are going to buy packaged salad) that [...]
Winter’s Damage
In last week’s Press-Register column, Bill Finch continued his series on predicting the effects of cold weather in the garden. I’m happy to say that he writes If I’ve learned anything from this winter, it’s that I’ve been too conservative in promoting winter vegetable gardening, and perhaps not loud enough in encouraging the use of [...]
Food in Schools
As the parent of a child who will be entering kindergarten this coming fall, I’m in a position to be newly conscious of the quality of food in schools. Here are several items of interest: At Chews Wise, Sam Fromartz points to the blog of former reporter who spent a week in Washington, D.C. schools [...]
Learning More from Winter
Keep reading Bill Finch in the Press Register to learn more about this winter’s cold snap and what it teaches us about our gardens.
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Fending Off Weeds with Newsprint