This letter is in reference to a recent Letter from the Editor in Food Safety News (“An independent food safety board is far better than anything FDA Commissioner does on his own”), dated
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In my Top 10 list of favorite movies is “Casino,” released in 1995 by director Martin Scorsese. One of the reasons I like it is the stars played the roles of real people and the
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Letter From The Editor: Moving faster than a speeding bullet
No less than the 9/11 Commission said border security should be a cornerstone of national policy. After all, the 19 hijackers who killed 3,000 people and injured more than 6,000 others in 2001 got into
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Letter From The Editor: Publishing the Rolodex
When I began in the business, there was a question that editors would ask when considering someone for hire. That question was: “How good is his (or her) rolodex? I admit the first couple times
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Letter From The Editor: China
China was the United States’ largest supplier of goods imports in 2010 and was our 3rd largest supplier of agricultural imports at $3.4 billion.
Leading categories include: processed fruit and vegetables ($811 million), fruit and
Letter From The Editor: History
At one point during my seven semesters at South Dakota State University, also known as the Harvard of the Prairie, one of the history professors tried to talk me into going for a third major.
Letter From The Editor: Only Stars Here
There is no other calling than the news business where the professionals sit around talking about “the dog days of summer” like it’s an inevitable occurrence.
Our patronage of this annual rite stands in contrast
Letter From The Editor: Catfish
Early during the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, I found myself in a small Mississippi take-out restaurant nearing the order counter while still reading the menu when I noticed there was a
Letter from the Editor: Mary Rothschild
Several times in the past year, we’ve used this space to inform readers on the approach we were taking to this news site.
For the most part, the course we set has not changed. Food
Letter from the Editor: Antitrust
As the joint DOJ/USDA workshop on antitrust issues in the meat industry got underway in Fort Collins, CO Friday morning, Attorney General Eric Holder said something that caught my attention.
These hearings are about concentration