Politics and pinball do sometimes have a lot in common. Both can produce surprising and unexpected results. Those lights and metal balls that pinball was known for before the digital age sometimes would make you an unexpected winner. Politics may do that for all those who want to revive the
Continue Reading The game may have just tilted in favor of a new Farm Bill
The global youth media company Vice has launched a new documentary series about how politics and policy affect what we eat. “The Politics of Food” is available through Vice’s online food channel, Munchies, and the first 20-minute episode investigates the underground trade in a West African delicacy called “smokies”
Continue Reading Online Channel Examines the Intersection of Tradition and Food Safety
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) sharply criticized Republicans for not supporting food safety funding at a voters forum in Florida on Monday. The former House Speaker called Republicans “the E. coli club” for their tendency toward limited government. The comments come as Congress slowly advances an appropriations bill that,
Continue Reading Pelosi Slams GOP on Food Safety: ‘This is the E. coli club’
The Environmental Working Group announced on Thursday that a group of food and agriculture policy leaders are forming a new nonprofit that “for the first time will hold lawmakers in Congress accountable” for important votes that impact food and agriculture policy.
According to EWG, the new group will track congressional
Continue Reading Food and Ag Leaders to Launch National Food Policy Scorecard
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture Wednesday approved funding for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for fiscal year 2013 with no new funding for food safety. 
The bill — which still must go through the full House Appropriations Committee and the House before
Continue Reading House Panel Approves Bill To Keep FDA Funding Flat
Instead of a potentially depressing year-in-review post, I decided to look ahead. (But do see Andy Bellatti’s amusing compilation of 2011 food news.) Given all the defeats and set-backs this year due to powerful food industry lobbying, the good food movement should by now be collectively shouting: I am mad
Continue Reading 2012: The Year to Stop Playing Nice
Michele Simon is turning into a pretty regular contributor to Food Safety News.
In recent weeks she has had two opinion pieces on the evil McDonald’s empire that is preying on kids by offering toys in their Happy Meals, and another piece on the cereal industry’s awful attempt to
