Posts tagged as food crisis

CNN's Brian Todd interviews our own Patty Lovera, food director, about how food contamination—like the Wright Egg salmonella outbreak—can spread so quickly. None of the eggs in the background were affected by the recall.

The Wright County Egg recall has continued to raise interesting questions about food safety issues across our industrial food system. Various news stations have been contacting our offices for the past week to ask how food contamination can spread so quickly across the country. CNN’s Brian Todd asked our food director, Patty Lovera, to meet him at a grocery store just outside of downtown Washington, D.C., to discuss the recall (we’ll provide the link as soon as the story airs), so I tagged along. Read more…

If you enjoy the taste of sardines, eating them can now be considered a political statement.  By choosing to eat these small “pelagic” inhabitants of the lower end of the food chain, one is rejecting farmed fish, which often consume large quantities of the world’s sardines, anchovies, herring, and other small, wild fish, in the form of aquaculture feed from factory fish farms.  Perhaps, calling sardine consumption activism is a bit exaggerated, but it might help explain the delicate relationship between ocean aquaculture and overall global food security. Read more…

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When filmmaker Robert Kenner embarked on his mission to direct Food Inc., he had no idea how big his documentary film would become. He had no idea what secrets the industrial food system was hiding and admits he knew nothing more about his food and where it comes from than any average person.

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