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Makes you want to just grow your own food or trade with just those you know and trust

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Here is today’s list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals, allergy alerts and miscellaneous compliance issues. The live links will take you directly to the official recall notices and company news releases that contain detailed information for each recall and alert.

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Global Unions Urge Release of Imprisoned Russian Trade Unionist

February 6, 2012—Trade unionist Valentin Urusov is proof that in Russia, it’s still possible to be imprisoned in the 21st century equivalent of the gulag for standing up for worker rights on the job. An electrical fitter at an ore-processing mill owned by the diamond mining company Alrosa, Urusov has spent more than four years of a six-year term in a penal colony in Yakutia in far northern Russia.

Described by friends as an intelligent and persuasive leader, Urusov in June 2008 formed the Profsvoboda trade union, affiliated with the Russian Metalworkers Trade Union. Profsvoboda sought to represent workers at the Udachny Pipe Diamond Mine, where workers toil in brutal cold in an open diamond pit just outside the Arctic circle.

Days after the union was founded, workers in one of the mine’s vehicle depots, dissatisfied with low pay and…

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eFoodAlert

Here is today’s list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals, allergy alerts and miscellaneous compliance issues. The live links will take you directly to the official recall notices and company news releases that contain detailed information for each recall and alert.

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Serendipity: Life is a Garden

I would like to highlight some great gardening websites and blogs today. If you know of great gardening blogs please share them in the comments below. Have a wonderful Tuesday everyone!

Cultivator’s Corner: One Girl. One Big Garden.
1-acre garden in Chicago? Yessiree! Gardening how-tos, videos, photos, and articles.

Soil Can Reduce Anxiety
I found this great post on how gardening and organisms in the soil can reduce anxiety. There are so many beneficial organisms in that soil, and they can benefit the people who work that soil in amazingly positive ways.

Living the Frugal Life
Homesteading in a residential neighborhood on less than an acre of land. /

Growing Potatoes in Buckets caught my eye as well as the post on pasturing rabbits.


Maria’s Farm Country Kitchen
Maria’s amazing website full of great information on organic gardening and then how to cook those yummy vegetables up into amazing…

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The following Guest Blog first appeared on Food Safety News (February 2, 2013), and is reproduced here with the kind permission of its author, Bill Marler.

Salmonella’s Not an Adulterant?

– by William D. Marler

Personally, as I said to the Los Angeles Times several months ago, “I think that anything that can poison or kill a person should be listed as an adulterant [in food].”

Ignoring Salmonella in meat makes little, if any, sense. Even after the Court’s twisted opinion in Supreme Beef v. USDA, where it found Salmonella “not an adulterant per se, meaning its presence does not require the USDA to refuse to stamp such meat ‘inspected and passed,” our government’s failure to confront the reality of Salmonella, especially antibiotic-resistant Salmonella, is inexcusable. The Wisconsin Supreme Court in Kriefall v Excel called it as it saw it:

The E. coli strain that killed Brianna…

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Afghan Women’s Writing Project | Undefeated

Woman …

A mother who gives birth to a child lives to

protect the child, no matter what happens to her.

A daughter, forced to marry,

lives the life she never wanted only to uphold her

father’s words and promises.

A sister, she is treated as a slave by her brother

but she still obeys his command.

Woman …

Seen by people as a toy to play with and

later to be thrown away.

Tolerated for the glory of the family

and the respect of the father.

Beaten to death if she starts to dream

Beaten, raped, killed.

Exchanged to pay off a debt

Or sold to earn a profit for the father.

Woman …

A word that has lost its value

in our society. She’s a human,

with a heart, a soul, wishes, and dreams.

Full of power and passion to fight

for her rights and freedom.

Beaten, yet undefeated,

she stands with great power

once again to fight.

Woman …

Me and you

By Marzia N.

via Afghan Women’s Writing Project | Undefeated.