Articles from November 2011
Posted by Barry on November 30, 2011
I’m pleased to announce that this week the Food & Environment Reporting Network launched. I’ve been working on this a non-profit journalism venture quiety for some time (two or more years), and now serve as editor. It grew out of an impromptu discussion with several people into an organization with a staff, board and editorial advisory board. [...]
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Posted by Barry on November 21, 2011
The first time I entered San Francisco’s Bi-Rite market was to buy a couple of really bad tomatoes—hard, pink, tasteless ones—as props for a talk I was about to give. From a block away on 18thStreet in the Mission district, the shop, with its glaring Art Deco façade, looked exactly like the sort of bodega [...]
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Posted by Barry on November 17, 2011
No one is going to accuse the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of rushing to judgment. In 1999, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) petitioned the FDA to stop the common practice of feeding perfectly healthy livestock antibiotics, not to cure disease, but merely to make them pack on weight more efficiently. [...]
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