5:34 p.m. No Tainted Beef At Arkansas Whole Foods Stores (KARK Little Rock) Organic many be your first choice at the store, but you may be surprised to learn that organic doesn't always mean safe. Whole Foods has pulled some of the ground beef from it's shelves....more...Whole Foods recalls beef (Philly.com) Whole Foods Market has recalled all its recently sold fresh ground beef after reports that nine customers - including two at its North Wales store - may have been sickened by E. coli bacteria....more... Mentor Farmers' Market: Organic, and year-round (Crookston Daily Times) If you're into organic food and don't think Mentor is too far of a drive to buy fresh, organic produce, meat and bread, then the new Mentor Farmers' Market, which launches Saturday, Aug. 16, might be just what you're looking for....more... Consumers go organic (The Courier Mail) CONSUMERS have embraced organic produce, with sales by farmers increasing more than 80 percent over the past four years, despite the drought....more... From the frontlines of the organic food revolution (CTV.ca) Food lover Margaret Webb believes Canadians should be willing to pay a bit more for their fresh ingredients, in order to support local farmers who are switching to sustainable and organic methods....more... From the frontlines of the organic food revolution (CTV.ca) We've heard a lot about the benefits of eating local foods in recent years, with bestselling books such as "The Hundred-Mile Diet" or "In Defense of Food" extolling the virtues of sustainable and organic farming....more... Mass. E. coli cases linked to Whole Foods beef (Boston Herald) State health officials have linked seven cases of E. coli to ground beef from local Whole Foods Markets that the affected persons ate last month. The Massachusetts Department......more... donga.com[English donga] (donga.com) News of U.S. beef recalls from across the Pacific yesterday rattled Koreans, who have spent months questioning the safety of the meat....more... Good food? It's academic (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) Today's campus food isn't necessarily a dumping ground for questionable ingredients. Some colleges are on the cutting edge in serving healthful, fresh, organic food grown locally....more... |