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zero listeria deaths, so far. There is always some minor recall going on, that's no surprise. When a bunch of people are put in intensive care wards is when the national media takes note.

The fact of the matter is that cultured meat will always be produced in a much more controlled environment than naturally grown meat. Growing animals, keeping them alive and reasonably healthy, dealing with their shit, slicing them up, and packaging the results is much more involved than 3D-printing some cells or growing them in bioreactors.

Also, people regularly get food poisoning to the point of death ( https://www.foodsafetynews.com... ), so the current situation is clearly far from ideal, even with the huge amounts of antibiotics used in natural meat production.

Finally, culturing meat is pretty high-tech stuff and especially in the beginning it will be an expensive product aimed at wealthy well-informed early adopters, and will be subject to much higher levels of regulation than the existing meat products. If anything, the level of cutting corners will increase as the market matures and the race to produce the cheapest cultured meat takes off.

Remember a few years ago when testing revealed that more than three quarters of what is sold as honey in the US is not actually honey?

5 months after legalization.

A doubling of hospital admittances 1 year after legalization.

Different story, same result. 1 year after legalization.

2 deaths from marijuana use 1 year after legalization.

Third death the following year.

Unreported death due to marijuana.

The last article raises the question, how many more deaths as the result of marijuana use have gone unreported? We know more and more traffic deaths have marijuana as a cause.

But please, let us here more excuses how none of the above is related to marijuana use. Drug users are good at making excuses, especially when presented with facts.

If you want to advertise to your customers that you're GMO free, knock yourself out.

:-) Just thought I'd rub it in with another example of the corruption we are dealing with (That one took two years to overcome, and it's still not a complete victory)

So now you know, if we are not going to be allowed to label our own food without all this resistance, then we must demand the government do it for us. We need the industry to provide the service, not make the rules.

One of the few damned things he's done that I agree with. The big turkey, chicken and hog factory owners in this state were HUGELY supporting making whistleblowing illegal, after numerous embarrassing incidents involving health and animal cruelty issues in their plants and farms.

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/...

I didn't believe it. But... wow. For those skeptical:
2008: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2...
2010: http://www.foodsafetynews.com/...

And yes, they really were executed.

(Personal side: This might be the best use of the death penalty ever.)

"Ultra filtering is a high-tech procedure where honey is heated, sometimes watered down and then forced at high pressure through extremely small filters to remove pollen, which is the only foolproof sign identifying the source of the honey. It is a spin-off of a technique refined by the Chinese, who have illegally dumped tons of their honey – some containing illegal antibiotics – on the U.S. market for years." - http://www.foodsafetynews.com/...

Hmm... I think I might know why

Only problem with keeping them in a car is they tend to be alive.

Actually, that is not a problem. Not only does it affect only the weak and sickly (the ones who aren't going to make it anyway), but it only threatens the tiny percentage of the population who remember to reuse their reusable bags in the first place.

Only problem with keeping them in a car is they tend to be alive. If you're going to use reusable bags, please wash them. BTW, what the heck happened to paper bags? Those decompose pretty quick.

How is that any different from the 11 US Senators (9 Democrats, 1 Independent Democrat and 1 Republican) who signed an anti-GMO salmon letter even though there is a wide scientific consensus built over 15 years that they are perfectly safe?

Politicians have all sorts of wacky ideas (or claim to have them due to having a wacky constituency, or because it actually helps them for an entirely different reason). I'm 100% sure that a number of the signatories of the anti-GMO salmon letter have no idea whether it's bad or not but don't want competition to their salmon fisheries so they use a convenient stick.

There's no such thing as a politician who is going to agree with you on everything. This kind of purity test is silly.

Actually a group went around testing honey from local retailers and found that 100% or nearly 100% of all honey purchased at places like CVS, Wal-Mart and a few grocers were at minimum ultrafiltered. Normally they filter out chunks of flowers and bee parts, but leave the pollen in. The ultrafiltered stuff is filtered to the point where the pollen is also extracted which is a costly and completely unnecessary step that just happens to mask the honey's origin. You can tell where honey came from based upon what the pollen is.

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/11/tests-show-most-store-honey-isnt-honey/

Here is the original self-promoting story from Food Safety News:
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/08/honey-laundering

However, from searching Google News (e.g. "china counterfeit honey"), the results are merely people's blogs that link to the same Food Safety News article. I'm sure FSN is providing a helpful service of raising awareness, but they are not an impartial group who we can expect to conduct a reliable investigation. Where are the confirming sources?

Their article references the FDA, the Department of Commerce, and the Department of Agriculture -- but I can't find anything on those sites to support the article's opening claim that "A third or more of all the honey consumed in the U.S. is likely to have been smuggled in from China."

Can anybody provide a citation?

Given all the attention recently put on beef, I expect McDonalds to be truthful on their page talking about their meats:

Do you use American meat?

We do. All of our chicken comes from our trusted USDA-inspected suppliers in the U.S., like Tyson Foods and Keystone Foods. Our beef and pork products also come from trusted USDA-inspected suppliers, such as Lopez Foods. In order to keep up with demand, a small percentage of our 100% pure beef is imported from USDA-inspected suppliers in Australia and New Zealand

The term USDA-inspected doesn't carry nearly the same power as it did 20 years ago. From allowing meat grinders to create and monitor their own safety plan with no followup corpwatch.org, to allowing chicken farms to do the same foodsafetynews.com, to criminally lax contamination guidelines on pork mercola.com ... this can continue but there are already dozens of documentaries to make these points.

Big Food will keep telling us our food is safe while pumping us full of the steroid-ridden anemic flesh that so many love.

Some day this kind of labeling will be made illegal.

http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/et-tu-minnesota-another-law-proposes-making-factory-farm-photography-illegal.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/us/14video.html
http://animalrights.about.com/b/2011/03/23/bills-to-ban-undercover-factory-farming-videos-moving-ahead-in-iowa-and-florida.htm
http://www.dvafoto.com/2011/03/two-us-states-move-to-outlaw-unauthorized-photos-of-farming-operations/
http://www.silha.umn.edu/news/Summer2011/StatesConsiderBanningUndercoverRecordingatAgriculturalOperations.html
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/03/in-the-past-decade-modern/

How about some subsidies for fruits and veggies. Apples are $2/lb on sale in my neck 'o the woods;

It's always been cheaper to eat good food than to buy junk food. And as previously noted - it's those who can afford it least that eat the worst. I think the "good food is too expensive I'm going to Maccas" argument is dumb - hang on... dumb, education (and maybe another factor of two).

How about some subsidies for fruits and veggies. Apples are $2/lb on sale in my neck 'o the woods;

dead MEAT http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2009/11/why-the-fda-shouldnt-back-down-on-shellfish/

Its all about the almighty dollar - go read up on HR254 Sludge Labeling bill - u're tonites dinner was probably grown in sewage.

Yum.

And we wonder why we have MRSA in meat and EColi in our sprouts.

"At present, RKI says the possibility of human introduction of the E. coli pathogen into the sprouts at the farm can't be ruled out" is just a nice way of saying human turds were probably to blame.

Bon appetit.