Pundit’s Mailbag — When Winners Are Declared Losers For Winning Too Much
Our piece, Pundit’s Mailbag — The Ethics Of Abandoning Short Term Profit For Long Term Gain, challenged the thesis that individuals or companies that were declining to raise prices to market levels were behaving more “ethically” than those who made such a decision. Our point of view received an endorsement: Could not agree more with […]
Mickey Kaus Might Not Win But, If We Are Lucky, He Will Get People To Think
June 8th is a primary in California, and with the produce industry being so heavy in California, the prospects for industry prosperity depend crucially on California finding a way to resolve its fiscal problems and dealing with a government that has basically stopped functioning. One of the more interesting candidates for office is one who […]
Richard Goldfarb Asks: Five Legal Questions About Traceability
We’ve frequently written on traceability, including these three recent pieces: Pressing The Reset Button On PTI What Is The ROI On PTI? Pundit’s Mailbag — California Citrus Mutual’s Joel Nelson Weighs In On PTI But Richard Goldfarb, an attorney with Stoel Rives, who we’ve mentioned before, looked at three other pieces we’ve done: Freshway’s Traceability […]
Gary Coleman Dies: A Reminder That Sometimes We Run Out Of Chances
The Broadway Show Avenue Q begins with a song that introduces Gary Coleman, the former child star, as the superintendent of a building in an outer borough of New York City. The song, titled, It Sucks To Be Me, includes these lines: Yes I am!I’m Gary ColemanFrom TV’sDiff’rent StrokesI made a lotta moneyThat got stolenBy […]
Marion Nestle, The Perishable Pundit And A Lawyer Named Stearns; We Need Civil Discourse To Advance Effective Public Policy
Marion Nestle isn’t necessarily the food industry’s favorite writer. A professor, author and blogger, she has been proclaimed by some activists to be “one of the country’s most hysterical anti-food-industry fanatics”. Well, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan once wrote, “Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts.” We have read Marion’s work […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — California Citrus Mutual’s Joel Nelson Weighs In On PTI
We have written a great deal about traceability, including a piece by Gary Fleming and a comment on a joint association release today. A fair amount of the public attention paid to this issue is a result of Joel Nelsen, President of California Citrus Mutual, deciding to speak out. Earlier this year he sent a […]
Pressing The Reset Button On PTI
We’ve written much on traceability, including pieces here and here today. Two recent articles detailed that the mood of the industry was moving away from supporting the PTI — at least as originally announced: Problems Persist With PTI The Great PTI Leadership Let-Down Now the executive committees of the Canadian Produce Marketing Association, Produce Marketing […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Clear Thinking Required On PMA/United ‘Solution’
Our broad coverage of the relationship between United and PMA and, specifically, our piece, PMA/United Interests Differ: Solution Offered, brought this letter from an industry leader who once served as Chairman of United: Excellent article on the PMA/United situation. You should continue to stimulate thinking on this very important subject. At some point it will […]
Food Safety Solutions: Look At Legal System, Industry Incentives And Effective Government
We’ve written a lot about food safety over the years. We covered the Great Spinach Crisis of 2006 and the Salmonella Saintpaul tomatoes, no wait, chili peppers crisis, the FDA Import Alert on Honduran Cantaloupes, issues such as Botulism and Carrot Juice, The Great Pistachio Recall and, of course, issues with Sprouts; we looked at […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — The Ethics Of Abandoning Short Term Profit For Long Term Gain
Our piece, “You’ve Restored Our Faith In Humanity” Award, followed by our Pundit’s Mailbag — Moral Character Carries The Industry In Hard Economic Times, brought this missive: It is always great to hear of folks with upstanding moral character in this industry, especially in light of the recent Salyer and now, apparently, the HerbThyme situation… […]
