Guest Blog: Lisa McLean, Agricultural communicator
I am fortunate to surround myself with a number of strong, intelligent, critical-thinking friends. Many of them are also parents, and all of them want the very best for their families.
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By Leslie Ballentine, Farming and food commentator
Recalls happen either because a company finds a problem on its own or is informed of a problem by someone else, after the product has gone out the door. For farmers and food companies, prevention is the ticket to avoiding these events as well as the financial and public relations fallout associated with an outbreak of food-borne illness. To avoid food recalls means starting at the farm.
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By Leslie Ballentine, Farming and food commentator
When it comes to food marketing, I’m starting to believe that both consumers and farmers may be getting the short end of the stick.
Perhaps farmers have been too focused on what they do best; producing an abundant and generally safe supply of food at a reasonable price to consumers, to worry about misleading advertising. Perhaps consumers don’t know enough about farm practices to see past the marketing hype to be able to make an informed purchasing choice.
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By S.L. Davis, Department of Animal Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331.
Published in the Proceedings of the Third Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics, 2001, pp 440-450.
Introduction
Although the debate over the moral status of animals has been going on for thousands of years (Shapiro, 2000), there has been a resurgence of interest in this issue in the last quarter of the 20th century.
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By Mike Stobbe, Associated Press, Jan 07, 2021
Sam Silverman is co-captain of his high school football team — a safety accustomed to bruising collisions. But that’s nothing compared with the abuse he gets for being a vegetarian.
”I get a lot of flak for it in the locker room,” said the 16-year-old junior at Westborough High School in Massachusetts.
”All the time, my friends try to get me to eat meat and tell me how good it tastes and how much bigger I would be,” said Silverman, who is 5-foot-10 and 170 pounds. ”But for me, there’s no real temptation.”
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