Good Food is Everybody's Business
Townsends, Inc. and four wholly owned subsidiaries, announced that they have filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. The Company’s operations are expected to continue during the bankruptcy process as it explores its strategic alternatives.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is responsible for “truth in advertising” and charged the Dannon Company with making claims that could not be substantiated; claims that allegedly exaggerated the health benefits of its Activia yogurt and DanActive dairy drink. Dannon has agreed to change those claims.
Dan Flynn of Food Safety News pulled together a quick – and scary – list of meat and poultry recalls by the USDA in 2010. Here are the highlights. Let’s be careful out there!
Meat is a groundbreaking exploration of the difficult environmental, ethical and health issues surrounding the human consumption of animals. Garnering huge praise in the UK, this is a book that answers the question: should we be farming animals, or not?
Grocery prices grew by more than 1 1/2 times the overall rate of inflation this year, outpaced only by costs of transportation and medical care, according to numbers released December 15 by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. While overall inflation nationwide was 1.1%, grocery prices went up 1.7%.
Dirt, soil, call it what you want – it’s everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it’s no laughing matter.
The Soil and Health was published in 1945, just before agricultural corporations surged to global proportions. Sir Albert Howard’s work is a major inspiration to the growing organic and sustainable farming movement and a thought-provoking reminder of a road not taken in developing mainstream agriculture during the past half-century.
USDA Secretary Tim Vilsack says you can’t raise black cows in counties with hers of registered Charolaise, a breed of white cows, because even barbed wire is no match for a lovesick black bull.
