E.Coli, Farming, Food Politics : Prevention is Better than Cure!

Chefs with Issues:
Five sustainable lessons from a family farm

"Over the years, I have heard farmers speak of their "sustainable" farms, only to wonder what they actually meant by that term."

Chefs with Issues, the platform for chefs and farmers fired up for causes about which they're passionate...
Read more: Chefs with Issues: Five sustainable lessons from a family farm; eatocracy.cnn.com




Restaurant.com Thousand of popular restaurants. Fo
From cucumber to sprouts, from salads to conspiracy theory, here's a collection of various headlines on the latest E. Coli outbreak, sustainable farming and antibiotics. Who said that Prevention is Better than Cure?

Delightfully yours, Food Meditations




On E. Coli outbreak and its potential learning opportunities (?)
~ How we might avoid more frightening outbreaks of E. coli...
Read more: The Roots of the E. Coli Problem; opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com

~ As Europe is being hit hard by a vicious E. coli outbreak, world health authorities are realizing their own food safety systems may not be adequate...
Read more: Lessons from an E. coli outbreak; theglobeandmail.com


Back to the sources
~ The story of a drug-resistant superbug...
Read more: E.coli outbreak: Over-use of antibiotics may have led to deadly strain; dailymail.co.uk



Pantry notes
~ People who don’t like to spend time in the kitchen tend to think that fava beans were surely invented by some sort of cooking sadist...
Read more: Seasonal Superfoods: Fava Beans; ecosalon.com

~ After all the anticipation, apricots, cherries, plumcots, Boysenberries and other tempting fruits are showing up...
Read more: Market Watch: Time for a summer fruit explosion; latimes.com



~ ... routine feeding of low doses of antibiotics to healthy farm animals is necessary in modern agriculture...
Read more: Healthy Animals Need Antibiotics: Baloney; huffingtonpost.com

~ Lawsuit Filed to Stop Antibiotic Use in Healthy Livestock; voanews.com
~ E. Coli outbreak: Is it sprouts or cucumbers?; independent.com.mt
~ Spanish farmers hand out veges to publicize plight; ajc.com


Conspiracy theory
~ British papers have launched their own investigation into E.coli outbreak...
Read more: A very English murder: the food version: Voice of Russia; ruvr.ru

~ Steve Bell's If... Cultivation of the E coli bohne sprosses | Comment is free; guardian.co.uk







Gluten-Free notes
~ Dairy Free Chocolate Mousse Recipe; elanaspantry.com
~ Vegan Zucchini Frittata; blog.fatfreevegan.com
~ Gluten Free Blog: GF Recipe Variation : Quinoa Stuffed Poblanos, take two; gluten-free-blog.blogspot.com


Healthy corner
~ How your medicine could be draining vital nutrients from your body; dailymail.co.uk


Food for thought
~ Everybody loves MyPlate. Really? foodpolitics.com


Check Also:
~ ::@EtherNett Flavour:: » On Movie, media, sport ...
~ ::@ockstyle Daily Bites:: » On photography, styling and everything chocolate, ...
~ ::@TravelBitesEtc Daily:: » On travel and other life distractions ...
~ ::@TasteOfRussia Times:: » On Russia and beyond ...
~ ::@FoodMeditations Digest:: » On what's happening in the global food community ...








Veg - Garlic: Fresh Garlic Bulbs on Wooden Cut...Image by ockstyle via Flickr
Appetibilis
~ June 2011 issue of Southern Living magazine; southernliving.com

Looking for more recipes? Check The Recipes Hunter collection...

Food Meditations [by ockstyle] on FoodistaFood Meditations [by ockstyle]

Join the new Food Styling and Photography Club on Facebook to improve your skills in food photography and food styling, learn something about cooking and enjoy the visual.


The Hunger Site




Enhanced by Zemanta

0 commenti:

Post a Comment

Terra e Gusto...

 

Archive


Food Meditations is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

Creative Commons License

E-Mail

word[at]foodmeditation[dot]net
PLEASE NOTE: We have lots of emails and it may take sometime to answer.

Stat counter

Site Info

The digest on what's happening in the food community is a constant work in progress, with notes of gourmet travelers, on cooking, styling, taking pictures, writing and blogging about it. (Not necessarily in this order!)
Thanks a lot for stopping by!

Disclaimer and Privacy

Opinion on this site are provided for informational purposes only and are not meant to substitute the advice provided by professionals. No guarantee is given as to the accuracy, consistency, or completeness of the information displayed in the database records.
Food Meditations... Copyright 2017 - Template Designed by Bie Template