This week the Obama administration promised to make a sweeping overhaul to our food system in order to ensure the safety of commonly contaminated foods like eggs, tomatoes, leafy greens, melons and meat. Let's hope this pans out because it's getting scary out there folks. Seems like every week there's a new food recall to read about. The latest scare is over salmonella found in dry milk powder used in instant oatmeal and hot cocoa products.
Because we can't all live off the grid.
Because as hard as we try to buy from local, organic food suppliers, the majority of our food comes from large, commercial food production facilities.
Because we should be able to trust the food we buy. (according to a recent survey by IBM, less than 20% of us do)
What can we do about it?
Sign the Organic Consumers Association's Petition to Support U.S. Food Agenda for 2015 to tell our elected officials to improve food safety and transition to organic.
Tell Congress to fix our broken food system by signing this message from Food & Water Watch and while you're at it, sign up for their RSS feed for the latest food safety updates.
Sign up for the Farm & Food newsletter from the Environmental Working Group to keep on top of the latest developments in food safety.
Follow USDA recalls on Twitter http://twitter.com/FDArecalls
Check out The Sustainable Table and their associated blog the daily table for food news and the inspiration you need to find a better way to eat!!
This is my post for the Green Moms Carnival for the month of July where we're talking about Food Matters. Check out the full roundup of posts at A Passion for Green Business starting Monday, July 13th.
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Wow, Micaela. Thanks for all these links and resources!
Posted by: Beth Terry, aka Fake Plastic Fish | July 10, 2009 at 10:59 AM
Amen, sister. And thanks for all these great resources!
Posted by: Lynn from Organicmania.com | July 11, 2009 at 05:07 AM
This is a list of resources to bookmark and participate in, for sure!!
Posted by: mother earth aka karen hanrahan | July 11, 2009 at 06:30 AM
Hi! Just wanted to let you know that we over at KIWI Magazine's blog, KiwiLog, loved your post and decided to feature it in our weekly mom blog round-up!
Cheers!
Posted by: KiwiLog | July 13, 2009 at 06:00 AM
Congrats on being on Kiwi Magazine's website and great post!! We shouldn't have to be so worried all the time about food!
Posted by: Lisa | July 13, 2009 at 09:59 PM
I totally agree that we shouldn't have to worry about the safety of the food we buy. I'm surprised the number of people who do worry isn't higher! Yesterday, someone commented to me that they're afraid of home canning for fear of 'poisoning' loved ones. With the way things currently stand, our risk of poisoning ourselves from mass-produced food bought from grocery store shelves seems to be at an all time high!!
Thanks for the links. I'll be sure to check them out.
Posted by: Renee @ EnviroMom.com | July 14, 2009 at 03:46 PM