- Friday at 7pm cst I'll be on Fox Business with John Stossel. He asked me about veganism, Meatless Monday, gluten-free, organic, local, and Beyonce. Try tackling all that in 5 minutes!
- I suspect most of you have already seen the FDA's final decision was released that will essentially ban transfats. This article worries about the potential slippery slope set by this precedent.
- Steven Savage writes in Forbes about his concerns over the future of the food supply. I'd be curious to see more research on his claims about "brain drain" in agriculture and about effects of "absentee" owners.
- Effects of bird flu being felt on egg prices
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Assorted Links
The War on Wheat - a documentary that criticaly evaluates the anti-gluten, anti-wheat movement
Want to infuse flavors or homogenize salad dressing using sound? You'll need one of these.
A number of states are considering further restrictions on what food stamp recipients can buy with benefits . Yet, as I've previously discussed, there is little reason to believe these policies will have much effect
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KFC to introduce coffee cups that you can eat
A new 3D food printer for pancakes
A critique of nutrition studies
I've been reading The Tastemakers - there's a lot of fluff and uncritical acceptance of popular food thinking, but its well written and has some interesting insights about the origins of food trends