I’ve been reading some great Real Food and Go Green articles this week. I know I don’t usually post on weekends, but I can’t help but share!
- Borders are Closing: What will Happen to their Books?
- Sign the petition to avoid book trashing here.
- Are Grassfed Cattle Immune to e. Coli 0157? (I’m almost sad to share this article, but at least the one below makes the grassfed worth it once again!)
- Grassfed Beef (only) Could Save the Planet: Less fertilizer for crops is just the beginning…
- I’m going to start watching more TV just to see this: Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution
- Big time plastics update: FDA No Longer Calling BPA Safe (See my reminder of which plastics don’t have BPA.)
- What if the FAA was in Charge of Food Safety? Second of four by Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures Dairy exploring prevention vs. reaction in public health.
I don’t know that this will become a weekly feature, but it may! I’ll try to tweet interesting articles and blog posts as well.
If Lovey Girl will give me 30 minutes, I’d have the Planetbox winner for y’all! You’ve been very patient!
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Just FYI, That first Borders link leads to the BPA article.
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Katie Reply:
January 23rd, 2010 at 11:24 pm
Liz,
Yikes! Thanks – taken care of.
Katie
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i hope everyone will click on the first article & give it a thorough read. For those of you who hang on Nina Planck’s ascertation on grassfed beef & e coli…note that she misinterpreted her citation…yet her opinion spread like wildfire as the gospel truth. further, more current research shows that grassfed cattle may be MORE likely to have e coli O157:H7. please consider this the next time the wap foundation or others are citing dated references.
finally, see the last sentence of the article re: the spinach e coli outbreak. “[per the fda report]Rather, the culprits were more likely to have been wild pigs or pastured (i.e., grass-fed) cattle—animals that were, of course, doing nothing more than eating what they were meant to eat.”
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Anne Reply:
January 31st, 2010 at 5:58 am
Tonya,
Do you have a research citation that “grassfed cattle may be MORE likely to have e coli O157:H7?” or is that coming from the Slate article citing one study done in Australia? I didn’t see them give a reference to the research done. That would be helpful.
And it appears that the FDA report didn’t conclude whether it was wild pigs — or pastured cattle that were responsible for the spinach e coli outbreak. I would like to know for sure which one it was.
I’m not trying to defend grass-fed cattle (I don’t eat it and have no feeling toward it one way or the other), but if we’re going to depend on science for our answers, science,or the persons writing about science, need to be clear about their conclusions as well.
Do we know when the Australian research was done? And are most of the cattle in Australia grass-fed, as they are in New Zealand (per one comment to the Slate article?) If so, could that not tip the balance?
And according to that article, “When it comes to the intricacies of our food system, and especially the meat industry — what’s true one day can be less true the next.” That could go either way.
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The new Jamie Oliver show looks great. I will definitely be tuning into that. Thanks for sharing. I will share with my readers, as well.
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Thanks for sharing. I just added the info about Borders to my Facebook page.
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Are you kidding me? Borders is closing 200 stores? Noooooooooooooo….
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