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Thursday
Nov182010

Small Farms, The Senate, And Food Safety

Senator Jon Tester of Montana's amendment to protect family-scale producers in the Senate's food safety bill has gained traction. Both Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, prominent writers who study the convergence of food and culture, are in his corner. Meanwhile, the Senate moved forward Wednesday on long-awaited legislation that would overhaul the nation's food safety system, grant new powers to the FDA, and make farmers and processors responsible for preventing food-borne illness.

For more, there's this story in The Washington Post.