Comments on: Re-prioritizing Food Safety: Getting out of Upton Sinclair’s Jungle, Again

By: Paula Crossfield: Will Obama’s Food Safety Working Group Address MRSA and the Deeper Issues Facing the Food System? | BlackNewsTribune.com

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:10:29 +0000

[...] be enough to ensure eaters are safe. We must fundamentally alter how we bring food to our plate. As David Murphy wrote on Civil Eats last week, “food safety cannot be cloned, genetically modified, implanted with [...]

By: Civil Eats » Blog Archive » Will Obama’s Food Safety Working Group Address MRSA and the Deeper Issues Facing the Food System?

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 06:10:00 +0000

[...] to ensure eaters are safe. We must fundamentally alter how we bring food to our plate. As David Murphy wrote on Civil Eats last week, “food safety cannot be cloned, genetically modified, implanted with [...]

By: Sinclair

Sinclair — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 07:28:40 +0000

Andrew is very astute and informed. We absolutely do not need sweeping new laws. We need people to simply enforce the laws and channels already in place. If inspectors would have ACTUALLY been inspecting the peanut plant, the problem would never have been able to progress or to make anybody ill.

Why are we not crying out against the inspection failures instead of jumping on the new law wagon?

By: Taste T.O. - Food & Drink In Toronto » Food For Thought - Thursday, March 12th

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:01:53 +0000

[...] to the Jungle – if Upton Sinclair could see us now – how food safety never really got any [...]
OH! You’re my new favorite blogger fyi

By: Taste T.O. - Food & Drink In Toronto » Food For Thought - Thursday, March 12th

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:43:17 +0000

[...] to the Jungle – if Upton Sinclair could see us now – how food safety never really got any [...]

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:40:11 +0000

sorry about the above two comments. not sure what happened with the xhtml there. anyway, i hope you get the idea.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:39:28 +0000

we need to get better people into the food safety agencies that already exist. creating new agencies with new laws will not help anything. there’s some very scary food-safety legislation proposed in the House that could

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:38:45 +0000

By: New Dream Blog » Blog Archive » Aiming for the Heart and the Stomach: Food Reform

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:58:16 +0000

[...] scandals being a revisiting of problems that were really never solved from Lewis’ time. Re-prioritizing Food Safety: Getting out of Upton Sinclair’s Jungle, Again mainly focuses on the actual safety of the food, but I think the larger message is applicable to [...]

By: Paul Kobulnicky

Paul Kobulnicky — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:55:59 +0000

Another Humpty-Dumpty ready to fall.

I am sure that there is actual reporting on this but without a citation in hand I can only point readers to today’s op-ed piece in the NY Times by Nicholas Krisof on the Pig industry in Indiana and the spread of MRSA. It is a crisis in full bloom.