Originally Posted By ecdc Here's an op-ed on why it's important: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/opinion/29schlosser.html?_r=2&ref=opinion?hp" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11...inion?hp</a> Fortunately the bill passed today and will hopefully be an important step in holding agribusiness to a higher standard.
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones Lately it seemed like a month couldn't go by without a head of lettuce being served up with a side of salmonella. Perhaps the Tea Party should read The Jungle or at the very least watch Fast Food Nation.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox On a related note... the Tea Party should also reconsider its anti-global warming stance. Worsening reductions in crop outputs have been directly tied to climate change: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/02/un-climate-conference-glo_n_790899.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...899.html</a> "CANCUN, Mexico — Even if we stopped spewing global warming gases today, the world would face a steady rise in food prices this century. But on our current emissions path, climate change becomes the "threat multiplier" that could double grain prices by 2050 and leave millions more children malnourished, global food experts reported Wednesday. Beyond 2050, when climate scientists project temperatures might rise to as much as 6.4 degrees C (11.5 degrees F) over 20th century levels, the planet grows "gloomy" for agriculture, said senior research fellow Gerald Nelson of the International Food Policy Research Institute. The specialists of the authoritative, Washington-based IFPRI said they fed 15 scenarios of population and income growth into supercomputer models of climate and found that "climate change worsens future human well-being, especially among the world's poorest people." The study, issued here at the annual U.N. climate conference, said prices will be driven up by a combination of factors: a slowdown in productivity in some places caused by warming and shifting rain patterns, and an increase in demand because of population and income growth." More at the link!
