Green Eats

Dear two or three readers,

I'm working with my friend Tyler (well Tyler is working I'm just nodding my head yes when I like it) on an overhaul of the site. Hopefully it will make Green Eats more accessible and more fun to read. I'm also thinking of incorporating a discussion board into the site somehow, but that may come later. In the meantime I apologize for the dearth of posts, but I do have some exciting things lined up for the next few weeks!

- Matt at Green Eats Blog

Carrots!

Specifically, carrots from Tiny Farm, in southern Ontario. I encourage you to check out Tiny Farm Blog for great insight on what it takes to start your own organic farm (and of course for the gorgeous photos).

New York (CNN) — Two people have died and 28 people have fallen ill with matching strains of E. coli after an outbreak in ground beef, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Sixteen
of those people are in hospitals and three have developed kidney
failure as a result of the contamination, the CDC said late Monday.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture
announced last week that Fairbank Farms in Ashville, New York, was
recalling more than half a million pounds of fresh ground beef products
that may be contaminated with a strain of E. coli, a potentially deadly
species of bacteria.

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Industrial agriculture strikes again! Its hard to believe that we would have these sorts of outbreaks if our food production was done on a local scale – all the benefits (jobs, profits) as well as the costs (outbreaks) would be small-scale.