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FDA Making Plans To End Its Routine Food Safety Inspections, Sources Say

Alexander Tin, Edited By Nicole Brown Chau, Paula Cohen CBS
Thomas Gremillion, Consumer Federation of America, criticized the Administration's reckless disregard for its policies' effects on the detection and prevention of foodborne illness and said plans to replace federal food inspectors merit suspicion

How To Fight Trump’s Attacks on Farmworkers

David Bacon The Nation
ICE is picking people up on warrants for detention across the country. ICE Director Tom Homan calls all undocumented immigrants criminals and therefore credible targets for deportation, no matter how many years they have lived in the country.

Can Marketing Magic Help Food Waste Disappear?

David Burrows JustFood.com
A sign in a Tesco store promoted discounted vegetables.
Researchers from Minnesota State University Mankato showed that ‘storytelling’ combined with marketing tactics like coupons “significantly increases consumers’ consumption of unattractive produce”.

Cheesy Terroir-Ism: The ABCs of AOCs

Matthew Wills Jstor.org
Whether it supports the production of wine or cheese, terroir is a “particularly French conception of cultural territory” says historian Tamara L. Whited.