Category Archives: Food Channel Development

Don Curlee: Blind leadership frustrates farmers, red-baiting 1950s style the answer
Visalia Times-Delta columnist joins in the Red Bating fad as though that will solve anything Farmers have no monopoly on honesty, because that character trait is rooted in the country’s founding principles. But those roots have grown strong and deep in agriculture. Farmers are wondering why honesty doesn’t have a higher priority among political representatives. [...]
Setton Farms Pistachio Recall: Aggregated on the Web
In a previous post I described a breaking story – the recall of Setton Farms of Terra Bella entire 2008 crop of pistachios sold into both the wholesale and retail channel. Below are news and blog entries describing the issue that have come in via google alerts today.
Terra Bella, Pistachios, Google and Your Health
Today on a lark I decided to set up a google alert on some of the local town names that I didn’t already have one set up for. When you do this, google will send you an email of new sites and blogs that match the term you specify. Little did I know that news [...]
Snapshot Statistic #1-7: A Peek at The Scale of the Food Industry
From: Taxing the Rich—Foods, That Is – BusinessWeek. Late last year, New York Governor David A. Paterson proposed an 18% sales tax on non-diet soda and sugary juice drinks for the fiscal year starting in April. Such a tax, he says, would raise $404 million this year and $539 million in 2010, to be used [...]
Food Channels: In the News
Vilsack calls for stricter food labels The labeling requirements, which would apply to fresh meats and some perishable fruits and vegetables, long have been debated in Congress and were enacted as part of a wide-ranging farm bill last year. While the meat industry and retailers responsible for the labels have protested the changes — saying [...]