http://blip.tv Recent Posts - Blip - Blip en-us http://blip.tv Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:41:58 +0000 Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:41:58 +0000 EB4DB4BE-C7D4-11DD-8B00-E6FE246B24F4 http://blip.tv/food-safety-gone-astray-the-misguided-war-on-wildlife/defending-family-farmers-industrial-food-safety-fallout-1574595 wildfarmalliance 293365 wildfarmalliance food-safety-gone-astray-the-misguided-war-on-wildlife Food Safety Gone Astray: The Misguided War on Wildlife http://blip.tv/food-safety-gone-astray-the-misguided-war-on-wildlife http://blip.tv/skin/blipnew/placeholder_user.gif 1574595 1566289 file TV-UN 0.0 2008-12-11T22:41:58Z English 0 0 0 1051 gqMD4I4nAg http://blip.tv/play/gqMD4I4nAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post1574595&skin=rss Wildfarmalliance-DefendingFamilyFarmersIndustrialFoodSafetyFallout606.jpg Dave Runsten speaks about how family farmers who are not producing leafy greens for the processing industry are being affected indirectly by extreme food safety metrics within the industry. Attorneys, insurance companies, and auditors have convinced most buyers such as food service companies and supermarkets that all such produce is dangerous, even though there is no evidence that whole leafy greens from family farms have seriously sickened or killed anyone. CAFF has been developing simplified food safety metrics that farmers can employ to defend themselves against unwarranted buyer demands. http://a.images.blip.tv/Wildfarmalliance-DefendingFamilyFarmersIndustrialFoodSafetyFallout606-690.jpg Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/gqMD4I4nAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="338" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#gqMD4I4nAg" style="display:none"></embed> <br /> Dave Runsten speaks about how family farmers who are not producing leafy greens for the processing industry are being affected indirectly by extreme food safety metrics within the industry. Attorneys, insurance companies, and auditors have convinced most buyers such as food service companies and supermarkets that all such produce is dangerous, even though there is no evidence that whole leafy greens from family farms have seriously sickened or killed anyone. CAFF has been developing simplified food safety metrics that farmers can employ to defend themselves against unwarranted buyer demands. http://blip.tv/file/1566289 The Environment food safety conservation e. coli environment agriculture ecological farming Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:41:58 +0000 food safety, conservation, e. coli, environment, agriculture, ecological farming http://a.images.blip.tv/Wildfarmalliance-DefendingFamilyFarmersIndustrialFoodSafetyFallout606.jpg food safety, conservation, e. coli, environment, agriculture, ecological farming <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/gqMD4I4nAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="338" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#gqMD4I4nAg" style="display:none"></embed> Defending Family Farmers: Industrial Food Safety Fallout http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/