Giant Eagle Inc. hoisted the food safety bar to new depths today when the company warned people not to eat any among an unspecified number of cases of Valu Time and Food Club canned pumpkins because, um, well, they didn’t really want to say, nor did pumpkin vendor Topco Associates LLC. But our brave guardians [...]
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Now is the summer of our discontent supplanted by an honest Fall, complete with fog and mist and even genuine rain, enough to soak our grounds and command the grasses to grow once more. (Not enough, though, to fill empty Texas reservoirs, many of which are below 40% capacity in evidence the dreaded drought continues [...]
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Between 55% and 60% of the population in Richmond (my little town) and Rosenberg (right next door) are Hispanic, largely Mexican, given our relative proximity to the border. I like this, among other things because our area benefits from a cultural richness non-border states don’t enjoy. For instance: A lot of Mexican women insist on [...]
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In the post below I noted the USDA announcement that giant meat-packer Cargill is recalling some 36 million pounds of ground turkey that may be contaminated with a strain of salmonella resistant to antibiotics. A few minutes ago, the USDA released a list of retail establishments that had been selling packages of the suspect meat. [...]
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It’s August, and past time around semi-South Texas to clear out the burnt-up vegetable plants and allow the garden beds to just bake a little in the sun to drive the nematodes and pathogens back into the Earth’s core. Heh. August also marks the abrupt end of our tomato and fig harvests. Now it’s our [...]
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Here are today’s three reasons why it’s better to buy your food from local growers/producers than it is to get your food from companies who buy it cheap from other countries, then ship it across the continent (or the planet) to a store in your town, which then jacks up the price to cover shipping [...]
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Here’s yet another reminder not to buy beef ground up from feedlot cattle: WASHINGTON, March 8, 2011 – Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, an Arkansas City, Kan., establishment, is recalling approximately 14,158 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) [...]
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