A man sues Denny's over high salt food. Apparently, some meals contain more salt than you should eat in two days. The lawsuit asks that Denny's list sodium amounts on the menu and warn of health risks. (More on this from Marion Nestle here)
Recently disclosed documents show that Canada used the WTO to pressure the US and successfully water own our Country of Origin Labeling (COOL). (See for yourself: Letter from US to Canada and Response from Canada to US)
I feel so split about these types of plans to use factory farm waste to generate power. I have read other pieces about chicken poop power generation (this one is about dairy) but haven't reported them because I just can't see it as a good thing when we find a way for factory farms to justify their existence (and be ever so slightly less toxic). And yet, I suppose it's better to produce energy with all the poop instead of letting it sit in a lagoon and stink.
Good food safety news from the USDA. (Yeah, maybe sit down as you read that... it is a little shocking.) They are now testing bench trim for E. coli - that's a cut of beef that previously wasn't tested.
