Consumers overlook the environmental impact of food packaging. If concern about climate change, the environment, or your personal health are factors in what to eat, it’s important to realize that those issues also are factors when it comes to food packaging.
As usual, most of the end-of-the-year, round-up articles are about national issues or corporations. If consumers are mentioned, it’s usually about how they’re responding to some corporation. For the most part, it’s been a grim year for consumers.
Almark Foods is recalling bulk, fresh hard-boiled eggs that were produced by its plant in Gainesville, Georgia, due to a multistate outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections linked to the eggs, the company announced Friday.
State and federal agencies are investigating a multistate outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections linked to Fresh Express Sunflower Crisp chopped salad kits. The eight people infected are from North Dakota, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
I’m a big proponent of organic foods. My dad, Minor H. Slingsby, died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He was a farmer. I didn’t know non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma was linked to pesticide exposure when my dad was diagnosed with the disease.
The USDA’s rule lifting the lid on line speeds and reducing the number of government safety inspectors by 40 percent at pork slaughter and processing plants should be set aside, lawyers from Public Citizen and United Food and Commercial Workers said in a lawsuit.
Although the food safety system in the U.S. has improved since my articles were written in 1984, the meat industry has continued to press government regulators to reduce the government role in meat inspection.
Times are changing for meat inspection in America. Traditional methods of checking meat, passed into law 1906 after Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” exposed deplorable conditions in Chicago meat packing plants, look expensive now.
In response to Consumer Reports’ article “Meat Gets A Makeover” focusing on plant-based alternatives to traditional beef burgers, Impossible Foods published an attack on the motivations and methods behind the coverage of the safety of a key ingredient in the Impossible Burger.
