Foods That Might Be Faking It

We’ve all heard about the terrible melamine scandal that is still reverberating all through the world, but what about other foods? USA Today had a revealing composition about food that could be faking it. Here are the top findings:

Wild-caught salmon that isn’t, and is farmed. One clue is whether the color leaks out when you cook it, you might have farmed salmon.

Red snapper that is actually tilapia, which might be a food you want think twice about anyway.

Olive oil that c…

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Amy’s Organic Cakes Hit the Shelves

Back when I had a real job, before I was allowed to sit around in sweatpants all day and wipe three different noses, I had the luxury of a lunch hour. Quite often I would bring an Amy’s frozen meal with me as they were satisfying and delicious (though came with a lot of packaging). Since thereupon I haven’t bought much from the company except for the occasional pizza. However, their newest organic cakes might send me back to the freezer section.

Normally I would be suspect of anything …

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Peanut Butter Products Recall Update

Peanut butter grossing you out a bit lately, with all of the news about it and salmonella? A nationwide salmonella contamination, thought to be stemming from one plant, has sickened 485 society so far, and killed six humans.

The FDA and the CDC has traced the source of the salmonella contamination to a Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) plant, which produces peanut butter, sold to institutions, and peanut paste, which ends up in a whole host of commercial foods like cakes, cookies, ic…

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Vilsack May Be OK After All

I was originally disheartened to prepare out about Obama’s pick of Tom Vilsack for the agency of Agriculture. I would have much rather seen someone that was endorsed by Michael Pollan. Instead the U.S. given a man from the corn belt who supports bio-fuels and is a friend of the GMO-crazed Monsanto. However, there is evidence that Vilsack might produce some good changes while in his position or at the very least, not suck.

Eating Liberally asked progressive, organic, Iowan farmer Denise O’…

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Tequila - Not Such a Good Thing for Mexico?

Products that must be made in a undoubtful region to be called a convinced name have a geographical indication (GI). Think Champagne and Roquefort.

Tequila has a GI, and must be made in the Jalisco region of Mexico. While that may sound like a good thing, research indicates otherwise. Sarah Bowen of North Carolina State has found that tying the production of tequila to Jalisco has made the production of the drink socially and ecologically unsustainable.

Tequila is made from the blue ag…

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Try Some Hair in the Garden

If you’ve ever had any second thoughts about spraying chemical fertilizers on your garden vegetables, you’ll be glad to know that there’s a new, eco-friendly fertilizer growing out of the top of your head. That’s right, according to Dr. Vlacho Jeliazkov of Mississippi State University, human hair can be just as effective as chemical fertilizers when it comes to undoubtful slow-growing varieties of garden plants like sage, basil, and ornamental shrubs.

Studies found that once hair begins t…

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Sick of Throwing Out #5 Plastic? You May Be in Luck

Number five plastic is ubiquitous. Your prescription bottles have it, your yogurt containers, the lids to your soda bottles, and more. Well, I found a little something out that I thought might interest all of you out there in Greenville.

Stonyfield Farms will take their yogurt containers back whether your community doesn’t recycle #5 plastic and you can’t stand the concept of throwing them away. I tend to use my quart containers of #5 plastic for other things (paint brushes, leftovers, …

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