In today's food news, via our friends at Food News Journal: A scandal over alleged cheating at a farmers market in California. Plus, a trend of supermarkets going smaller, not bigger, and a rare E. coli strain in a Costco-linked outbreak.
Read on for more news of the day via Food News Journal.
• Jamie Oliver's American Dream faces setback - Telegraph UK
• While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Cheese Sales - New York Times
• Fat children eat better than thinner classmates - Telegraph UK
• Farmers market cheating alleged - Los Angeles Times
• Oysters Lose Their Allure - Wall Street Journal
• A future when London can feed itself - BBC
• Rare E. coli Strain Seen in Costco-linked Outbreak - Food Safety News
• The food-mood connection - Los Angeles Times
• Suddenly, Corn Costs More. Why Not Corn Flakes? - NPR
• Big Supermarkets Going Smaller - Organic Authority
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It's sad, but you can't trust too many "Farmer's Markets" these days. Go early and you'll see them unloading plastic clamshells of produce from Costco & pouring them into baskets labled "local"
Yeah, from your local Costco.
I don't think Jamie Oliver and Co. should give up on their mission. Rather, they should continue but in a different direction. If they are not granted permission to deal directly with the food service, then they should try to get into the classroom. Jamie's knowledge of food and gardening could provide an opportunity to get students outside and into the gardens to grow their own food for educational purposes. They could then get permission to prepare the food in Home Economics type labs. The show could follow students back to their homes where the kids will show their families what they've learned by preparing a meal for them. We've already seen how pathetic the state of school cafeterias are. If our "raw" ingredients that we eat as adults are the same or even worse than what is served in the caf, then that means we need to change our entire food system, not just the school's food system. We've seen how we can change things with the first series, now lets see it from a different angle.