Pundit’s Mailbag — ‘More Matters’ Can Be A Rallying Cry For the Industry
Our piece, Pundit’s Mailbag — Evaluating Effectiveness In Childhood Eating Studies, was built around a response to our article, ‘Nutrition-Education Doesn’t Work’ Says Associated Press Review Of Literature. Both of these articles focused on the need for research to establish that programs undertaken to achieve particular goals are effective at doing so. For the most […]
Raw Milk And Produce Do Consumers Desire Some Level Of Risk?
Our piece entitled, Risk And Raw Milk, dealt with the general issue of risk and the degree to which consumers ought to be able to accept risk in the food supply. It brought a response that shows both the astonishing diversity of produce people and different perspectives on what is risky: Raw milk is the […]
India Struggles To Retain Employees
As we struggle in America with immigration issues, it is easy to assume that nations such as India have unlimited labor available. Yet that isn’t the way it works. In India, many software companies are pulling work back to the USA because it turns out that only a fraction of India’s engineers have the technical […]
Enough Said
United’s Public Policy Event Is Important; Future Years’ Scheduling To Be Improved pointed out that a scheduling error was made and, as a result, United’s Washington Public Policy Conference was scheduled over the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah. We emphasized that the slip-up was inadvertent and that it was important for those able to support […]
China Executes Food And Drug Safety Regulator
We confess we thought it was a joke… surely they weren’t really going to execute the guy when we mentioned that China’s chief food and drug safety regulator had been sentenced to death. But he was executed. It was mostly a matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. He had been […]
Pundit Makes WSJ Op-Ed Page
The Pundit’s father toiled in the produce trade following his father and his father before him plus countless generations back in Europe. Yet, this Pundit’s Poppa fit no stereotypes. He wore a suit every working day of his life and was (and is) an educated and intelligent man. Among the most priceless gifts given this […]
Salmonella On Veggie Booty Spurs Troubling Response From CDC
For many parents, including the Pundit, word of the E. coli outbreak last fall on bagged spinach didn’t ring too many personal alarms. After all, kids — at least ours — rarely touch the stuff. But word that Salmonella had been found on Veggie Booty, a snack food popular with children, struck horror in the […]
Organic Foods Nutrition Debate
The world’s newspapers and television news programs have been filled with articles touting the health benefits of organic. As far away as Kenya, they are running articles with titles such as Research Shows Organic Foods Are Healthier: Organic fruits and vegetables may be healthier than conventionally grown crops, US researchers say. A 10-year study comparing […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Evaluating Effectiveness In Childhood Eating Studies
Our piece, ‘Nutrition-Education Doesn’t Work’ Says Associated Press Review Of Literature, brought a spirited response. That response included several correspondents whose work we’ve mentioned before in our coverage of the Food Dudes program. This program, after lengthy testing in the U.K. and Ireland, is now being rolled out across Ireland and there have been discussions […]
Sunkist Hires Consultant To Restructure Sales, Not Governance
Our article, Pundit’s Mailbag — Sunkist’s Missed Opportunities, brought forth a variety of input. Interestingly enough, it fell on two sides of the fence: Former employees, academics and consultants who have studied Sunkist, and business partners in the trade who admire Sunkist, think it has potential and are looking for Sunkist to rise like a […]
