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U.N: Small-Scale Farming Could Double the World's Food Production {Slashfood}
Mar 30th 2011 8:59PM Those of us in the food safety industry have issues mixing animals and
ready to eat foods. Take a look at an article from Marler Clark who
specialize in food safety:
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/03/melons-stand-out-as-produce-safety-problem/
U.N: Small-Scale Farming Could Double the World's Food Production {Slashfood}
Mar 30th 2011 7:10PM Don't take my word for it, then. Take the word of someone working for Marler Clark, the food safety/lawyer firm who successfully sued Jack In The Box for E. coli poisoning: http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/03/melons-stand-out-as-produce-safety-problem/
Marcel's Quantum Kitchen -- Enter to Win an Apple iPad 2 {Slashfood}
Mar 18th 2011 5:44PM I'm looking forward to seeing some of the new appliances and equipment that I'm going to need to try and replicate what he makes!
U.N: Small-Scale Farming Could Double the World's Food Production {Slashfood}
Mar 14th 2011 1:30AM Maureen: as a food scientist, my status quo is as safe a food supply to the world as I can make it. If you are for increasing the risk of food borne illnesses in the world in your "status quo changing" world, then I don't want anything to do with you, and neither do the infants, the young, the elderly, or the immunocompromised people of the world. By accepting food at the risk of increasing food borne illness, you just hurt the food supply and the people who consume it. Who needs a safe food supply more? You in your first world nation healthcare system, or people in third world nations who don't have access to life-sustaining healthcare? Don't tell me that you're advocating increasing the risk of food borne illness in a population that can't afford it!!!!!
U.N: Small-Scale Farming Could Double the World's Food Production {Slashfood}
Mar 9th 2011 10:13PM Steve: do a bit of reading and Google "foodborne pathogens animal origin" and read through all of the Journal articles that talk about the association of foodborne illnesses and animals. THAT is why I made the statement that I did. Animals around foods that will not be heat-processed is NOT a good idea.
U.N: Small-Scale Farming Could Double the World's Food Production {Slashfood}
Mar 9th 2011 10:06PM I'm referring to animal carriers of pathogens that can get into the fresh food supply of human beings. Look up "animal carriers of food pathogens" and you'll see that birds (ducks) carry Salmonella, and many animals carry E. coli, and there are animal reservoirs of Camplylobacter. I placed my statement as a point of concern of mixing animals and foods BEFORE or DURING harvest. Without a heat-kill step on foods, these pathogens could kill people.
You point out that people have been turning out animals AFTER crops have been harvested; that practice is fine in my eyes as the crops won't be growing for another season. Use of manure as a fertilizer is great, as long as the manure has sat around long enough to dry out and kill the bacteria, or the manure has been heat treated to kill E.coli.
Look up spinach, lettuce and other foods that are eaten fresh and you'll see outbreaks associated with them and that in many cases, an animal carried in the pathogen.
I realize I made a statement and not a question; however I see that I need to state it in terms of fresh foods being associated with animals (leafy greens and E.coli and such). It was not meant to say that EVERY case of animals being around food will cause problems, but in fresh foods that aren't heat treated. 1 death from a preventable situation is well worth the caution.
U.N: Small-Scale Farming Could Double the World's Food Production {Slashfood}
Mar 8th 2011 6:18PM Mixing animals and food (such as the duck eating the weeds) is a recipe for disaster from a food safety standpoint. The animals carry diseases, and those diseases will be passed on to us down the food chain.
Thunderbolt: Apple and Intel's new interconnect {TUAW.com}
Feb 24th 2011 1:25PM I'm not sure of the size of the port, but it looks to me that it would add bulk to iOS devices.
Anyone know if the port is bigger/wider than exisiting iOS devices?
Food Allergy Awareness Comes to Restaurants {Slashfood}
Jan 28th 2011 6:23PM If you remove the Big 8 allergens from a restaurant (90% of the allergies come from milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, seafood, shellfish, soy and wheat), and suddenly you have a restaurant that can't cook hardly any food.
If you are going to DIE because of a reaction to a food, I would not put my faith into a restaurant being able to accommodate your medical condition.
Chinese groups slam Apple for environmental policies {TUAW.com}
Jan 20th 2011 5:35PM The "watchgroups" are obviously Chinese Government entities who are looking at the business practices of OUTSIDE companies and won't be looking at the environmental and social atrocities that are occurring in the Chinese Government-run companies within the borders of China. Has anyone ever heard of the watchdog groups? How many groups are allowed to form without the Chinese Government either placing on a stamp of approval or stamping out the group? It is a ruse, much like the 50 Cent comments that their government puts forth: pay people to be pro-Government in social media sites, and get paid to put for the propaganda of the government....
