PrintIn the News: Pot Pie Food Scare; Food Stamp Diets; Low-Fat Diets
- And then they came for the pot pies: ConAgra plant in Missouri shuts down after possible link to 139 salmonella cases in 30 states. Check your freezers, folks. ConAgra advises against eating "Banquet brand turkey and chicken pot pies as well as generic-store brand pot-pie products bearing the number 'P-9' on the side of the package." [The Canadian Press]
- U.S. considering food aid to North Korea: "Pyongyang has positively responded to a U.S. plan to send monitors to ensure the food reaches the neediest, [newspaper Chosun Ilbo] said, adding that Washington was considering other aid such as generators for hospitals." [Agence France-Presse]
- Alice Waters appears on Today. With video. [MSNBC]
- An act of Congress: In a look at food-stamp funding in light of the pending farm bill, some U.S. reps recount their summer experiments living on $21 a week for food. You can't eat heathily on it, they find. Gee, who woulda thunkit? [San Jose Mercury News]
- Is fat the lesser evil?: In his new book, Good Calories, Bad Calories, Gary Taubes argues that low-fat diet recommendations were scientifically unjustified and may well have harmed Americans by encouraging them to switch to carbohydrates, which he believes cause obesity and disease. [New York Times]
- Campbell Soup gives $250,000 to sustainable ag: The University of California–Davis Agricultural Sustainability Institute has received $250,000 from the Campbell Soup Company to support sustainable agriculture research, education, and outreach. [Central Valley Business Times]
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