Universities Adopt An Advocacy Role And The Media Fails To Disclose That Advocacy: How Are Legislators And The Public To Decide On Food Safety?
We wrote a piece that was published by Pajamas Media titled, At the Corner of Food Safety and Media Bias. Here is an excerpt: If universities are biased and the media is lazy, how are we supposed to develop intelligent public policy? Food safety is a case in point. At first glance it appears that […]
Fresh Express Looks To Personalize Purchase Of Salads By Using New Website Tools
There was a time when the fresh-cut salad category was the vibrant growth leader of the produce industry. In the aftermath of the spinach crisis of late 2006, the category stumbled and has never since returned to the double-digit growth rates of days gone by. That may be about to change. Both here and here […]
Health Care Bill Passes…
The Devil Is In The Details
Now that the Health Care bill has passed the House, the President will soon sign it and it will become the law of the land. The good thing about this is that we will actually come to know what is in the law. Already the Center for Science in the Public Interest is crowing about […]
Wal-Mart’s Auction System
Leads To Less Sustainability
As part of our longtime analysis of Wal-Mart, we recently ran a series focused on changes in Wal-Mart’s produce procurement operation. The series included these pieces: SPECIAL EDITION: Wal-Mart’s Global Food Sourcing Initiative Closes The Peterson Era And Threatens Sustainability Of Agricultural Base Flaws In Wal-Mart’s Produce-Procurement Thinking Wal-Mart’s Blind And Costly Focus On FOBs […]
‘Fresh For Ellen’ Shows Passion
And Potential To Help The Industry
Our pieces, Plea For Ellen DeGeneres To Consider Produce In Her Sugar-Free Diet and How Will Success Be Measured For Fresh for Ellen Social Media Campaign, brought this enthusiastic endorsement of the efforts of Dan’l Mackey Almy, President and Managing Partner of DMA Solutions, Inc., by a marketing expert in the industry: All I can […]
With Penny-A-Pound ‘Victory’,
Coalition of Immokalee Workers Looks To Justify Its Actions
We’ve written a number of pieces related to the Florida tomato industry and the “penny-a-pound” programs, including these pieces: Subway Joins Penny-A-Pound Program While Tomato Growers Feel The Pinch Florida Tomato Growers Reject Penny-A-Pound Initiative At The Industry’s Peril Pundit’s Mailbag — Defending The Florida Tomato Industry Our most recent piece, titled Big Ramifications For […]
Stemilt And Dovex Join Forces
Big news in the Pacific Northwest: Stemilt boosts role as tree fruit leader by joining forces with Dovex WENATCHEE, Wash. — An even stronger Stemilt emerges following today’s announcement that it will join forces with Dovex Fruit Company to become the leading tree fruit growing, packing and marketing operation in the nation. “Stemilt has embarked […]
Efforts To Minimize Food Safety And Sustainability Conflicts Laudable But Don’t Resolve Conflict
One of the biggest battles that produce growers have had to deal with is how to wrestle with the competing values of food safety and environmental concerns. Actually it is more than just competing values; it is competing and often contradictory instructions from multiple buyers and multiple governmental agencies. Now comes word that there has […]
Hope To See You At United Fresh/Cornell Executive Development Program
Are you busy March 14th through the 19th? If you can spare a little time, there is no more productive use of that time than to head off to Ithaca, New York, and attend The United Fresh Produce Executive Development Program. Developed in partnership with Cornell University, this is an incredible program, in which the […]
Chile Earthquake Assessment
As we went to write about the earthquake in Chile, we held off, just because the information was as much rumor as fact. In fact it was just March 4th when the authorities reduced the estimated death toll from 805 people to 279 as The New York Times reported: Chilean emergency management officials announced Thursday […]
