USDA's New Food Safety Campaign
Poppy new campaign encouraging food safety when cooking at home, an issue I am always quick to point out. Interesting, however, is there’s no component relating to where you source ingredients.
Source: thekitchn.com
Affordability, of course, is another significant barrier to access. It is often cheaper to buy packaged foods than the raw ingredients to make similar foods; it is cheaper for me to pick up a box of Kraft than it is to buy macaroni, milk, and cheese. Fresh vegetables and fruits, in particular, are extremely expensive, and yet foodies sneer at poor folks who eat packaged foods and fast food, as though they are just lazy and useless. Not trying to make ends meet and eating what they can afford, even if they are not thrilled to be eating it. Shaming people makes it a personal problem; ‘you don’t eat enough fruits and vegetables,’ instead of a social problem, ‘we need to make fruits and vegetables more affordable.’
s.e. smith @ In Shocking News, Not All Ingredients Are Available To Everyone! – this ain’t livin’ (via notemily)
(via burtmacklin)
Source: meloukhia.net
FDA to unveil food pyramid replacement this thursday
- Is based around the design of a plate, but isn’t a pie chart
- Encourages smaller portions, low-fat dairy, and water instead of sugary drinks
- Is reminiscent of a Rothko painting
- Can’t possibly be worse than the goddamn food pyramid
Treif Victory!
New guidelines released Tuesday by the USDA – just in time for the Memorial Day kickoff of grilling season – recommend that pork be cooked to an internal temperature of 145 degrees, 15 degrees cooler than the previous standard.
Source: thekitchn.com
I’m not going to talk about the way I get the willies at the thought of conger eel DNA spliced into my dinner (I know, it sounds nicer when you call it the ocean pout), or invoke the nickname Frankenfish (that one really bugs you). And I won’t even go after the special committee you assembled for the review process, with its lone fish expert and last minute addition of a former Monsanto employee, although I wish you had looked beyond your FDA buddies and enlisted some of the environmental and fisheries experts at other government agencies, like the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service or the National Marine Fisheries Service.
An Open Letter to the FDA (via Gigabiting)
Source: gigabiting.com
