PENNSYLVANIA: Del Val College: Helping guard our food supply - (Higher Ed Law Prof Blog)
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Poison toothpaste and dog food from China
salmonella in eggs, botulism in beef, PCBs and mercury in fish
mad cow disease, anthrax
the list of threats to our food is as long as the Klumps grocery order. Was a time when farmers drove their trucks through my hometown of Jim Thorpe, hawking their fresh-picked produce.
Lancasters Amish and South Jerseys fruit and tomato growers still bring some fine foods to our farmers markets. But the hard fact is that we are eating seafood from Southeast Asia, fruit from Mexico and Chile, beef from Australia.
Seventy-seven percent of Americans polled believe a terrorist attack on our global food chain is likely.
Tom Kennedy, director of the Food and Agribusiness MBA at Delaware Valley College, fears these folks may be dead right. The system is very porous, he says. Consequently, Food security has now become food defense.
Kennedy, a lanky, gray-haired Irishman, first became […]
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