• At global economic conference, food crisis trumps credit crisis [NYTimes] • France says: the EU really needs to do something about the food crisis [BBC] • One reason food prices are up: vastly increased farm input costs [WSJ] •...
• As Haitian food riot violence continue, PM urged to step down [AFP] • US & EU complicit in global food crisis, and must act to mollify it [NYTimes] • WHAT FOOD CRISIS? Meet the $100k kitchen that's sweeping the...
• LA's Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles sues Chicago's Rosscoe's Chicken & Waffles [Tribune] • EU Development Commissioner brashly calls African food crisis a "tsunami" [BBC] • Minnesota Twins ballpark signature food item to involve walleyed pike? [Star Tribune] • On...
• Cloning-for-food moratorium still USDA modus operandi [Reuters] • Genetically modified taro moratorium in effect in Hawaii [AP] • Food riots are the new energy, water riots in developing world [UKPress] • British mildly upset that food additives lower kids'...
• Italian food undergoing an (ethnic) identity crisis in Italy [NYTimes] • Humorous Absolut ad prompts boycott calls from silly Americans [Tribune] • Embattled Atlantic City casinos cutting food and drink comps [USAToday] • India's structural economic problems exacerbating food...
• When Polish artisanal family farms and EU regulations don't mix [NYTimes] • Miller to craft-ify their Lite beer, destroying both in the process [AP] • Corn hit six dollars a bushel yesterday. That's really scary! [Guardian] • What do...
• Stem rust scare threatens Asia's wheat crop; it could wipe half of it out! [ATimes] • Seattle to ban foam containers and tax paper and plastic bags [SeattlePI] • Food costs make up 1/3 to 1/2 of families' budgets...
• As conventional farming input prices rise, organic gets competitive [NYTimes] • Japan, not satisfied by USDA assessment, to study cloned animal safety [Reuters] • Feed a cold: study shows your immune system is sensitive to diet changes [ScienceDaily] •...
• Global poor complacent, forgiving of their gov'ts as food prices rise [Reuters] • American farmers planting just the right amount of corn and soya [NYTimes] • Study: most Americans haven't noticed food or fuel cost changes [AP] • Gov't...
• Lopsided economy drives record nationwide food stamp use [NYTimes] • Food prices up 9% since last year; pork bellies mostly flat [Forbes] • Asia's stomach rumbles as rice prices have doubled in the past year [AsiaSentinel] • Record high...
• Italian mozzarella contaminated with dioxin [BBC] • Honduran cantaloupes with salmonella [AP] • New Zealand tahini with salmonella [NZHerald] • New Zealand honey with toxic tutu nectar (!) [Times] • North Dakota venison with lead particles [StarTribune]...
• New USDA plan: to tell us less about meat recalls! [AP] • Apparently, college students have poor food safety habits [Reuters] • Much of the Asian Brown Cloud caused by cooking-related pollution [NYTimes] • Chilean salmon factories rife with...
• USAID cutting non-emergency food aid as prices soar [AllAfrica] • Burmese refugees in Thailand going on an unexpected diet! [IHT] • Illegal garbage dumps poison Italy's buffalo mozzarella industry [NYTimes] • Ill. ties hunting and fishing licenses to child...
• How many times must we say breakfast cures obesity? [NYTimes] • Portly Wales bans junk food from its hospitals [BBCNews] • There's some kind of crazy poison honey going around NZ! [NZHerald] • Note to Jared Diamond: corn's been...
• Popeye's founder dies at 64 of scary saliva gland cancer [LATimes] • KFC, bowing to healthy eating craze, introduces grilled chicken [USAToday] • A primer on umami, if you've been living under a culinary rock [Tribune] • After talking...
• Starbucks whacked for $100m in Calif. baristi tip lawsuit [LATimes] • If you YouTube your taco-related misdemeanors, you go to jail! [AP] • Seemingly moral Volvo fined $20m in Iraqi oil-for-food schemes [Forbes] • Newly discovered giant Antarctic marine...
• Given the new economic reality, can we start reclaiming farmland? [NYTimes] • Sbux to grind beans in-store again. Will its coffee finally be drinkable? [USAToday] • Would you go to Mars if you had to eat silkworm pupae cookies?...