Subprime Crisis Affects Us All
Hat tip to the Pundit Poppa for passing along this humorous U.K. take on the subprime mortgage crisis and the role of the markets and investment bankers in general. It is interesting to see how things play in different cultures. The video, in making reference to the subprime customers, adds a superfluous reference to the […]
PMA Education Foundation Looks To Attract And Retain New Industry Talent
We’ve worked hard to try and give PMA’s recently founded education foundation a good start. In Pundit sister publication, PRODUCE BUSINESS, we offered the foundation a chance to lay out the rationale for the foundation. It took advantage of that opportunity and we published five articles delineating the basis for the foundation: May You Live […]
Florida Tomato Growers Reject Penny-A-Pound Initiative At The Industry’s Peril
While much of the industry has been focused on an effort to explain to the American people and members of Congress that a severe labor shortage is hampering agriculture, the Florida tomato industry is acting in a manner that undermines the industry effort. For many years, advocates for migrant farm workers have pushed for improvements […]
Trip To Tesco’s Fresh & Easy Store
Reveals The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
On a quick trip to California, the Pundit and Mrs. Pundit visited one of Tesco’s Fresh & Easy stores “up close and personal”. For those familiar with the Los Angeles area, we went to the store at 4211 Eagle Rock Blvd., a mixed community not too far from Occidental College. We visited the store Wednesday […]
WIC’s Addition Of Produce Applauded,
But Don’t Expect A Lift In Consumption
It is hard for us to remember when United’s Lorelei DiSogra, whom we profiled here, was not speaking passionately about getting produce into the Women’s, Infant and Children’s Program — or WIC. Now both United and PMA are enthused because it is almost upon us with the approval of an interim final rule. First we […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — A Closer Look At
Chefs Collaborative’s Mission Statement
Our piece, Chefs Collaborative Opposes Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement, aroused passionate opposition from smaller growers, and we published Pundit’s Mailbag — Small Farmers Have More At Stake With Food Safety, which included a letter from Ken Kimes of New Natives in Freedom, California. We also received another vituperative letter on the subject. This one from […]
FDA Gets Blueprint For Future,
Incentive Change Might Lead
To Safer Food
One of the fun things about reading the Pundit is that if you view it regularly you start to see a web of subtle connections between disparate events. Just the other day in our piece, Pundit’s Mailbag — Consumer Has Shared Responsibility In Food Safety, we told the story of Michael Taylor and his pivotal […]
PMA Mexico Country Council Meets
This year — 2007 — will mark the year in which PMA’s long term strategy to expand internationally began to cohere. First we published PMA Broadens Reach In Chile, which focused on a seminar featuring guest speaker Thomas Reardon from Michigan state. This program was organized by Gustavo Yentzen, who is PMA’s representative in Chile. […]
Decline Of Nobel Culture:
From Theodore Roosevelt To Al Gore
To Tesco & Non-existent Drowning
Polar Bears
Al Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize thus becoming the second former Vice President to win the prize. The previous recipient was President Theodore Roosevelt. You don’t have to have any particular opinions on global warming to see the distance between these two awards as part of the politicization of the Nobel committee and the […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Small Farmers Have More At Stake With Food Safety
Our piece, Chefs Collaborative Opposes Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement, brought a firestorm of protest from smaller growers, including this letter: You should have put a bit more thought into your assertion that small outbreaks of food borne illness are not noted or acted on by authorities. You are confusing the level of publicity an outbreak […]
