Good Food is Everybody's Business
More than 30 groups representing poultry, meat and other fresh food makers sent a letter today to legislators asking them to oppose an amendment to the Food Safety Modernization Act that would exempt some small food producers, such as farmers’ market vendors, from certain food safety protocols.
Another example of “do as we say, not as we do…” Last week we learned that the USDA is spending huge amounts of money encouraging us to eat low-fat foods, while funding marketing programs that are helping restaurant chains find new ways to add more cheese to their offerings.
This week, the Produce for Better Health Foundation released two reports on America’s fruit and vegetable consumption along with recommendations to alleviate the enormous economic and disease-related costs associated with the lack of fruit and vegetable consumption.
Over 125 national, state, and grassroots organizations are notifying members of the United States Senate that an amendment proposed by Sen. Jon Tester (MT) and Sen. Kay Hagan (NC), is critical to ensuring that the food safety bill being considered by the Senate does not injure the livelihoods of family-scale farmers and undercut consumers’ opportunity to find fresh, local farm produce and locally artisan food products, like jams and jellies.
This book was published months before the massive egg recall in August, making Karen Davis look positively prescient! Karen Davis wrote Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs in the mid-1990s to focus attention on the billions of chickens buried alive on factory farms. The newly revised Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs documents what has happened since the book first appeared.
What will 2011 bring us in the world of good food? Mintel, a leading market research company, this week published their Mintel Menu Insight Top Five Foodservice Trends for 2011. At least, three out of the five lean toward “good food.”
Today – drum roll, please – Wendy’s is launching their all new, crisper, slimmer, skin-on French fries with sea salt! Let’s take a close look at this marketing miracle and parse out the advantages for consumers looking for good food.
Walk into the brick building that is Lou’s Eagle Grocery on the corner of Fourth and E streets in Eagle, Nebraska, and you’ll see a …
What is a regional food system? It’s a way to build a strong food system that connects people with good food from a known source and builds wealth and relationships at the same time. Put more simply, it connects farmers to consumers.
