• Mint leaves may have given a Virginia family food poisoning. [Washington Post] • Delivering drug-laced cookies to the police department is probably not the perfect crime. [Chicago Tribune] • Restrictions are tightening up on pesticides, but is it enough?...
• Some American consumers getting in on the ground floor of food production. [NY Times] • Investigators pretty well stumped as to what caused that pesky salmonella outbreak. Maybe Jalepenos? [Sacramento Bee/AP] • Using sea water to farm the desert...
• Despite a recent recall of 5.3 million pounds of beef, our meat is totally safe. So says the secretary of agriculture. [AP] • Farms are dying off, but produce festivals live on! [NYT] • Need to lose weight? Try...
• Rising food costs means Europe is close to capitulating on GM produce. [Reuters] • We have the technology - so why can't we find the salmonella? [WaPo] • Coca-Cola paying out $137.5 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit ....
• Lobster, lobster, lobster. [NYT] • America's top July 4th cookout-related ask.com search items. [AHT] • Meat meets fine art. [Pierre Menard] • There's a food so disgusting that prisons use it as punishment. Of course, someone had to taste...
• Rich becoming organic farmers as peak oil survival strategy? [NYT] • Once more into the breach: E. Coli beef recall hits 20 states [DFP] • China: chocolate industry's last great frontier (until India) [Reuters] • As global apocalypse nears,...
• Sbux, overextended in crap real estate markets, to close 600 stores [Trib] • Soon-to-be-much-emailed list of 101 picnic ideas from Mark Bittman [NYT] • Criticized & embarrassed FDA adding a hundred labs to salmonella hunt [USAT] • Group: food...
• Wal-Mart going local on produce to save money [Reuters] • If A-B won't go quietly, InBev will go hostile [TO] • Did you know: mayonnaise is a mild preservative [NYT] • Drug mushrooms good for long-term mental health [AP]...
• As N. Korea normalizes, food aid flows freely [Reuters] • Global food export curbs hurt poorest people [UPI] • Energy efficient milk jugs confound consumers [NYT] • Artisanal bottled water won't survive peak oil [WaPo] • What if salmonella...
• Hezbollah-dominated Beirut eats at 'Buns and Guns' restaurant [AP] • New Yorkers discover edible comestibles at Disney World [NYT] • Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis not going quietly in the night [Trib] • Legendarily cheap Vegas casino food succumbs to reality...
• S. Korea to accept U.S. beef again; future of gov't unsure [NYT] • Japanese/Chinese food row reenacted by Olympics team [Reuters] • Texas Gov. comes out hard against food-crop ethanol [SETR] • Mars/DoA/IBM to sequence, manipulate cacao genome [WaPo]...
• Food stamps go out to Midwestern flooding victims [Reuters] • Cashew juice, now for sale, confounds the imagination [NYT] • Surge of deep-dish pizza to arrive in Iraq for July 4th [AP] • Monsanto profits soar on yield-bumping weed-killer...
• Food voucher giveaway sparks mini-riot in Milwaukee [AP] • 17 states require insurance to cover eating disorders [Trib] • Youth exposure to alcohol advertising on TV increases [NYT] • Brazil's biofuel farmhands treated predictably poorly [LAT] • Chinese fast...
• India losing ability to feed itself [NYT] • Candy business booming in tough times [AP] • UK: GMO not necessarily the solution [TPA] • Corn growers on HFCS charm offensive [WSJ] • For fast food, a globalized future [BSun]...
• Several top aides sacrificed in S. Korea beef row [Bloomberg] • House might add $1.25B in emergency food aid [Reuters] • Following floods, agr. stocks in the toilet [CNN] • Hair in the steak today, gone tomorrow [Tribune] •...
• Many more stricken by TomatoGate, which may never be solved [USAT] • Can a countertop scanner help with your grocery shopping? [NYT] • Widespread wheat fungus to wipe out 1-2% of Kansan crop [AP] • Reeling from 8% food...
• Commercial banana industry to collapse in 5-10 yrs [NYT] • Why the FDA hasn't solved TomatoGate yet (ever?) [Trib] • Sen. McCaskill (D-Mo.) to fight InBev takeover of A-B [MW] • U.S. food inspectors to China; theirs come here...
• Getting close to the source of tomatogate [Reuters] • Midwestern flooding inundates 15% of crop [LAT] • NYC trans fats ban becomes complete on 7/1 [AP] • Is Milan's Peck the world's greatest market? [Trib] • New plan for...
• Flooding in Iowa severely damaging corn crop [NYTimes] • China reveling in bumper summer wheat crop [ChinaDaily] • Canada's fast food chains bring back tomato [TCP] • U.S. states embroiled in tomato blame game [AmAg] • Nanotech food conference...
• Congress to subpoena dodgy imported food safety testers [NYT] • Tomatogate toll up to 228, with one possible death [AP] • ConAgra: food prices could rise 9% a year through 2012 [SeattlePI] • Mugabe cruelly using internal food aid...