Hey Folks; This will be the next-to-last post until next week. We should be back about mid-week for two Dark Day Challenge posts, then we will be dark again until Sunday, January 2nd, 2011. Okay, enough housekeeping stuff, let’s talk food-related news and BONUS, more holiday-inspired recipe links! NEWS In local news, a favorite farm…
Tag: food politics
{weekend reading} National Edition
To be honest, there isn’t much “good” food news to report. Between the food safety bill S.510 at its final stages of life, the Humane Society’s report of Smithfield’s pork facilities, the overwhelming use of antibiotics in factory farmed meats and the absolutely absurd attacks on the Healthy, Hungry-Free Kids Act and First Lady Michelle…
{weekend reading} NATIONAL EDITION
FOOD NEWS Let’s start with the “Advertisement Seen Around the World This Week” category. If you haven’t seen Duncan Hines’ “Hip Hop” Cupcake commercial you have missed something special. Like too close to black-face-special. Watch the commercial on Eater, with a little editorial piece. Then head over to Mother Jones for an article on the…
{weekend reading} NATIONAL EDITION
Wow. Where to start… This week has been FULL of food-related news that I don’t know if I can pack it all into one post. I’ll try. As a disclaimer I will suggest going to any of the “Resource Websites” on the right column of the blog for further information, especially on S.510 and Healthy,…
{weekend reading} BEST OF NATIONAL EDITION
11/29/10 NEW NOTE: I have added TWO more articles of the same vein as the Newsweek Story- One from Judith Warner for the NYTimes, the other from The Washington Post by Jane Black & Brent Cunningham. NOTE: I’m taking a short holiday break, so this post is a “best of” from the past 9 weeks…
{weekend reading} NATIONAL EDITION
NEWS San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed, by a large margin, a law that bans restaurants, such as McDonalds, from offering a free toy with meals that contain more than set levels of calories, sugar and fat. In addition, restaurants can offer a toy with their meal if it contains fruits and vegetables. The Los…
