Pundit’s Mailbag — The Ethics Of Employees in Private Enterprise Versus Public Institutions
Our recent food safety piece questioned whether giving more power to the FDA was, in fact, an effective way of increasing food safety. In questioning the assumption that government is the solution to the problem, we seem to have inadvertently angered some government employees: I read your article, “How to improve Food Safety,” published in […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Dale Peterson And The Obligation Of Politicians To Model Good Behavior
We headlined our piece focused on a campaign video by Dale Peterson, a candidate for the Republican nomination for Alabama Ag Commissioner, Watch the Winchester: Ad For Dale Peterson, Candidate For Alabama Ag Commissioner Goes Viral, and at least one sharp-eyed Pundit reader did, in fact, “Watch the Winchester”: Did the Marines teach him to […]
Will A New Tesco CEO Care To Keep Funding Losses At Fresh & Easy?
Although we have written extensively about Tesco’s journey to America as Fresh & Easy, we haven’t written much lately. Mostly because there was no point in beating a dead horse. Covering Tesco’s announcements had gotten plain silly. After years of Tesco executives explaining that its losses on Fresh & Easy were all a function of […]
You Can Be There As History Is Unveiled: The Center For Produce Safety Reveals Its Research Results
Fresh Express had put together a fabulous presentation of the research results of research conducted with Fresh Express money under the auspices of Michael T. Osterholm, an esteemed academic and public health professional who, when he isn’t saving the world from influenza, manages to help Fresh Express continuously improve its food safety program. We found […]
Pundit Nominated For Business And Financial Journalism Award
We have been honored more than a few times for the work we’ve done, including winning the Jesse. H. Neal award and The Timothy White Award for Editorial Integrity. Now we’ve been nominated for an award in a broader playing field. We just received word that several pieces we wrote for the online version of […]
Wal-Mart’s ASDA To Acquire The UK’s Netto Stores: Will They Bring The Small-Store Concept To America?
We’ve written a great deal about Tesco’s Fresh & Easy and Wal-Mart, and we’ve written about Wal-Mart’s small store effort, Marketside, both here and here. With Fresh & Easy hemorrhaging money and Marketside a bust — with expansion having been stopped — the big chains need a new vision for a small-store option. Wal-Mart has […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — No Matter What Growers, Shippers Or Retailers Do About Food Safety, ‘You Will Be Sued’
Our piece, Freshway’s Traceability System Worked Like A Charm: FDA And Buyers Don’t Care, brought a note from a grower: This all goes back to the lawyers. I heard a lawyer speaking at a traceability conference and he said he doesn’t care what systems we have in place… they are suing us all. I asked […]
Limited Scope Of Recent Recalls Is Testament To Industry Leadership
In the midst of the outbreaks of the past six weeks, the industry has hard evidence of how truly brilliant has been its leadership. Just a few of the industry leaders were recognized by the Pundit as Single Step Award recipeints after the Spinach crisis: Single Step Award Winner — Dave Corsi Of Wegmans Food […]
Food Safety Article Now In French
The Pundit’s food safety piece for The New Atlantis, a Washington, D.C.-based journal focused on technology and society, is titled How to Improve Food Safety: Aggrandizing the FDA Only Distracts from Real Solutions. The piece is worth reading as it approaches food safety from a different direction than is typical. Much of what passes for […]
Three Reasons Why Wal-Mart’s Visits Are Down
When the Pundit was just a boy, we remember the Pundit Poppa investing in the high-yield securities — in other words junk bonds — of many retailers. Hallowed names like W.T. Grant and McCrory’s are gone now but were the subject of avid attention at the Prevor dinner table. So we’ve been studying the way […]
