The News in Food

June 5th, 2007 Posted by admin No Comments

Total Recall (Los Angeles Business Journal) United Foods has recalled over 75,000 pounds of ground beef tainted with deadly E. coli bacteria in eleven states after a dozen people in five states and Canada were sickened. The CDC is investigating how the meat got contaminated.

Today is Hunger Awareness Day (via Ethicurean) America’s Second Harvest and other hunger-awareness groups have created the day of education and action–now go get educated and active. The folks at Ethicurean wisely connect the hunger issue with (guess what?) the Farm Bill.

Test Tube Steak? (Wired Science) Researchers in the Netherlands are cooking up fake meat. Well, they’re trying to, anyway.

Food Fighters Face Criminal Charges (Seattle Times) Three high school students were arrested in Aurora Illinois after a massive food fight left a school official and a police officer injured.