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Food Safety Gone Astray: The Misguided War on Wildlife

Why Marketing Food Safety Doesn't Work: The Leafy Green History of Habitat Destruction

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Jo Ann Baumgartner, Wild Farm Alliance's Director, discusses how long before the spinach tragedy in 2006, processors realized industrially shaving l...
Jo Ann Baumgartner, Wild Farm Alliance's Director, discusses how long before the spinach tragedy in 2006, processors realized industrially shaving leafy greens from the ground required farm audits to keep objects such as frogs from being bagged. Afterwards, the free market kicked in, through one-upmanship between shippers/buyers selling the 'safest' product, and new lucrative food safety auditing services based as much on perception as on science. Misguided requirements scapegoating wildlife have led to habitat destruction, extensive poisoning, and fences that go nowhere. Less
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