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It's a combination so tasty, famed food writer Ruth Reichl once raved, \"You haven't lived until you've tried the two together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the beloved treats aren't just treasures for the palate — they're a pretty lucrative business worth millions of dollars. And now, Trader Joe's is being sued for allegedly cornering the market on the snack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiff is Maxim Marketing, a Southern California company that claims to have invented the peanut butter pretzel in the early 1980s. And for more than 25 years, Maxim claims, it supplied the grocery chain with the snack, which is sold under the private Trader Joe's label. But Maxim says the retailer switched suppliers to packaged food giant ConAgra Foods, unfairly cutting it out of the business it pioneered. So Maxim is suing both companies, explains journalist Alfred Lee, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.labusinessjournal.com/news/2014/feb/17/pretzel-supplier-alleges-twisted-tale/?page=1&\">wrote about the lawsuit\u003c/a> for the \u003cem>Los Angeles Business Journal.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're suing for alleged breach of contract and also alleging the existence of a peanut butter pretzel monopoly,\" Lee tells \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> host David Greene. \"I realize that sounds kind of funny, but this isn't some bite-sized niche, if you will. It's a market worth tens of millions of dollars.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maxim claims it sold Trader Joe's $9 million worth of peanut butter pretzels each year, and the grocer, in turn, sold the snacks at a gross markup of roughly 35 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Maxim is a middle man that doesn't own its own factories,\" Lee explains, \"and ConAgra has bought up most of the peanut butter pretzel manufacturing capability in the United States. And Maxim is saying that this deal prevents them from essentially doing business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trader Joe's, which is privately held, is famously tight-lipped. It does not disclose its suppliers, and it has not commented publicly on the lawsuit nor responded to it in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, Trader Joe's has the right to use any supplier it wants. And one way the company has traditionally cut costs is by bypassing the middle man and going straight to the manufacturer when it comes to creating its own private-label foods. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/kitchener8.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/kitchener8.jpg\" alt=\"Kitchener Oakland offers commercial kitchen space and soon take-out windows for local food-makers. Photo: Courtesy of Kitchener\" width=\"960\" height=\"636\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78464\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kitchener Oakland offers commercial kitchen space and soon take-out windows for local food-makers. Photo: Courtesy of Kitchener\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Sophia Chang started a small organic ice cream business about six years ago, she was shocked that she couldn't find an affordable commercial kitchen to make her batches for the farmers market. All the commercial kitchens were about $40/hour and required minimums of somewhere around 60 hours/month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Chang was staying at her mom's house and using the kitchen, which she acknowledges you're not supposed to do under commercial food regulations. The whole thing \"was not a good set-up,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she had to shut down abruptly after eight months, she just kept thinking about how hard it was to get off the ground as a food business. \"I kept thinking why aren't there kitchens that will help businesses,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She thought about it when she went to work as the production manager for \u003ca href=\"http://teacakebakeshop.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Teacake Bake Shop\u003c/a>, running their online shipping warehouse. And, she thought about it some more when Teacake downsized and the owner asked her if she'd like to take over the space, just off Broadway in the Lake Merritt-Uptown neighborhood of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/kitchener3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/kitchener3.jpg\" alt=\"The kitchen at Kitchener Oakland. Photo: Courtesy of Kitchener\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78459\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The kitchen at Kitchener Oakland. 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But, Kitchener also goes a bit further: the space hosts monthly pop-up markets to allow the food-makers to sell their goods and puts on workshops or seminars to help the food-makers learn the business and, hopefully, move into a permanent location. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78462\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/kitchener6.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/kitchener6.jpg\" alt=\"A Kitchener food-maker sells their cookies at one of the monthly pop-ups. Photo: Courtesy of Kitchener\" width=\"960\" height=\"637\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78462\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Kitchener food-maker sells their cookies at one of the monthly pop-ups. Photo: Courtesy of Kitchener\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are \u003ca href=\"http://www.kitcheneroakland.com/who-we-are1.html\" target=\"_blank\">36 different artisans using Kitchener currently\u003c/a> and about 50-55 have been in the space over the year-and-a-half since it opened in June 2012. Six of those have been able to move into their own kitchens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the next step for Chang is turning the community kitchen into a community pop-up take-out window too -- or two windows, to be exact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1426px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/kitchener.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/kitchener.jpg\" alt=\"Rendering of what the Kitchener take-out windows will look like. 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The food businesses that use the kitchen will all have a chance to sell and Chang is eager to try and mix in other pop-ups and Oakland food-makers, like the popular local grilled cheese guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/kitchener4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/kitchener4.jpg\" alt='\"The empanada guy\" makes empanadas at Kitchener Oakland and thought up the idea for the take-out windows. Photo: Courtesy of Kitchener ' width=\"960\" height=\"637\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78460\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"The empanada guy\" makes empanadas at Kitchener Oakland and thought up the idea for the take-out windows. Photo: Courtesy of Kitchener\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Food-makers will pay either $5/hour to share the window with one other vendor or $10/hour to have it for themselves. But, most of the vendors are excited about sharing, said Chang, since there can be some interesting and fun combinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To build out of the windows will require about $25,000. Chang plans to add counters, awnings, a sign to advertise who is serving up food, and exterior paint. There will also be extensive work inside to add equipment, plumbing and pull the electrical from the kitchen to the windows. To raise that money, Chang turned to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1381454414/a-food-lovers-dream-the-kitchener-snack-bar\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class->\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"420\" src=\"https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1381454414/a-food-lovers-dream-the-kitchener-snack-bar/widget/video.html\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>The Kickstarter is still open for funding until tomorrow, but $28,000 has already been raised. And, no wonder. The rewards for donations are mostly food credits to use once the windows open. A $100 pledge could get you $115 in food. Chang says Kitchener then pays all those credits to the vendors when they're redeemed, but it was necessary to have the money upfront in order to get the windows up and running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78466\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 186px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/kitchener-sophia.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/kitchener-sophia-186x290.jpg\" alt=\"Sophia Chang founded Kitchener Oakland. Photo: Courtesy of Kitchener\" width=\"186\" height=\"290\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-78466\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sophia Chang founded Kitchener Oakland. Photo: Courtesy of Kitchener\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We consider it a loan,\" said Chang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plans have already been approved by the Oakland Health Department and Chang simply has to get final permits from the planning department. She's also made a request to create a parklet with tables and chairs so that people can enjoy their food next to the windows. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The windows, to be called The Kitchener Snack Bar, could be open as soon as April. Once they are, Kitchener will advertise the schedule of who is serving up food on its website as well as on the marquee in front. Ultimately, there will be regular hours (with late night hours on weekends) and, ideally, a regular rotation of certain food-makers on certain days. That way you know when to get your empanadas and when to load upon cupcakes! \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are a handful of incubator kitchens around the Bay Area like \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacocinasf.org/\" target=\"_blank\">La Cocina\u003c/a> in San Francisco and \u003ca href=\"http://rencentermarin.org/open-kitchen/\" target=\"_blank\">the Renaissance Center\u003c/a> in Marin County and there are certainly a wealth of pop-ups and food truck markets, the creation of rotating take-out in a brick-and-mortar location with different fresh local food may be a new (and delicious) take on creating a way for the wealth of Bay Area food makers to get their goods to our mouths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kitcheneroakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Kitchener Oakland\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n372 24th St., Oakland\u003cbr>\n510-835-5885\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KitchenerOAK\" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com/KitchenerOAK\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/kitchener8.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/kitchener8.jpg\" alt=\"Kitchener Oakland offers commercial kitchen space and soon take-out windows for local food-makers. Photo: Courtesy of Kitchener\" width=\"960\" height=\"636\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78464\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kitchener Oakland offers commercial kitchen space and soon take-out windows for local food-makers. Photo: Courtesy of Kitchener\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Sophia Chang started a small organic ice cream business about six years ago, she was shocked that she couldn't find an affordable commercial kitchen to make her batches for the farmers market. All the commercial kitchens were about $40/hour and required minimums of somewhere around 60 hours/month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Chang was staying at her mom's house and using the kitchen, which she acknowledges you're not supposed to do under commercial food regulations. The whole thing \"was not a good set-up,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she had to shut down abruptly after eight months, she just kept thinking about how hard it was to get off the ground as a food business. \"I kept thinking why aren't there kitchens that will help businesses,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She thought about it when she went to work as the production manager for \u003ca href=\"http://teacakebakeshop.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Teacake Bake Shop\u003c/a>, running their online shipping warehouse. And, she thought about it some more when Teacake downsized and the owner asked her if she'd like to take over the space, just off Broadway in the Lake Merritt-Uptown neighborhood of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/kitchener3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/kitchener3.jpg\" alt=\"The kitchen at Kitchener Oakland. Photo: Courtesy of Kitchener\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78459\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The kitchen at Kitchener Oakland. Photo: Courtesy of Kitchener\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That was the birth of \u003ca href=\"http://www.kitcheneroakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Kitchener Oakland\u003c/a>, a commercial community kitchen that provides kitchen space for small local food businesses at cheaper rates -- $13-20/hour instead of $25-40/hour. Costs are kept low by having the kitchen shared among up to four different chefs, bakers or juicers at one time. But, Kitchener also goes a bit further: the space hosts monthly pop-up markets to allow the food-makers to sell their goods and puts on workshops or seminars to help the food-makers learn the business and, hopefully, move into a permanent location. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78462\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/kitchener6.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/kitchener6.jpg\" alt=\"A Kitchener food-maker sells their cookies at one of the monthly pop-ups. Photo: Courtesy of Kitchener\" width=\"960\" height=\"637\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78462\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Kitchener food-maker sells their cookies at one of the monthly pop-ups. Photo: Courtesy of Kitchener\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are \u003ca href=\"http://www.kitcheneroakland.com/who-we-are1.html\" target=\"_blank\">36 different artisans using Kitchener currently\u003c/a> and about 50-55 have been in the space over the year-and-a-half since it opened in June 2012. Six of those have been able to move into their own kitchens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the next step for Chang is turning the community kitchen into a community pop-up take-out window too -- or two windows, to be exact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1426px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/kitchener.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/kitchener.jpg\" alt=\"Rendering of what the Kitchener take-out windows will look like. Photo: Courtesy of Kitchener\" width=\"1426\" height=\"1102\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78458\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rendering of what the Kitchener take-out windows will look like. Photo: Courtesy of Kitchener\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The newest plan started when \u003ca href=\"http://javiscooking.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\">the empanada guy\u003c/a> wanted to sell empanadas out of the two windows in Chang's office that face the street. Kiosk food stands are common in Argentina and he wanted to do the same here. The windows look just like take-out windows, except that they're industrial office windows with bars over them. At first, Chang didn't want to have her office turned into a take-out food stand. But, she came around. The only problem was \"it wouldn't have been fair if it was just him,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, Kitchener is instead planning to open two windows that will each have two food-makers selling out of them. The food businesses that use the kitchen will all have a chance to sell and Chang is eager to try and mix in other pop-ups and Oakland food-makers, like the popular local grilled cheese guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/kitchener4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/kitchener4.jpg\" alt='\"The empanada guy\" makes empanadas at Kitchener Oakland and thought up the idea for the take-out windows. Photo: Courtesy of Kitchener ' width=\"960\" height=\"637\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78460\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"The empanada guy\" makes empanadas at Kitchener Oakland and thought up the idea for the take-out windows. Photo: Courtesy of Kitchener\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Food-makers will pay either $5/hour to share the window with one other vendor or $10/hour to have it for themselves. But, most of the vendors are excited about sharing, said Chang, since there can be some interesting and fun combinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To build out of the windows will require about $25,000. Chang plans to add counters, awnings, a sign to advertise who is serving up food, and exterior paint. There will also be extensive work inside to add equipment, plumbing and pull the electrical from the kitchen to the windows. To raise that money, Chang turned to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1381454414/a-food-lovers-dream-the-kitchener-snack-bar\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class->\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"420\" src=\"https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1381454414/a-food-lovers-dream-the-kitchener-snack-bar/widget/video.html\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>The Kickstarter is still open for funding until tomorrow, but $28,000 has already been raised. And, no wonder. The rewards for donations are mostly food credits to use once the windows open. A $100 pledge could get you $115 in food. Chang says Kitchener then pays all those credits to the vendors when they're redeemed, but it was necessary to have the money upfront in order to get the windows up and running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78466\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 186px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/kitchener-sophia.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/kitchener-sophia-186x290.jpg\" alt=\"Sophia Chang founded Kitchener Oakland. Photo: Courtesy of Kitchener\" width=\"186\" height=\"290\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-78466\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sophia Chang founded Kitchener Oakland. Photo: Courtesy of Kitchener\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We consider it a loan,\" said Chang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plans have already been approved by the Oakland Health Department and Chang simply has to get final permits from the planning department. She's also made a request to create a parklet with tables and chairs so that people can enjoy their food next to the windows. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The windows, to be called The Kitchener Snack Bar, could be open as soon as April. Once they are, Kitchener will advertise the schedule of who is serving up food on its website as well as on the marquee in front. Ultimately, there will be regular hours (with late night hours on weekends) and, ideally, a regular rotation of certain food-makers on certain days. That way you know when to get your empanadas and when to load upon cupcakes! \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are a handful of incubator kitchens around the Bay Area like \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacocinasf.org/\" target=\"_blank\">La Cocina\u003c/a> in San Francisco and \u003ca href=\"http://rencentermarin.org/open-kitchen/\" target=\"_blank\">the Renaissance Center\u003c/a> in Marin County and there are certainly a wealth of pop-ups and food truck markets, the creation of rotating take-out in a brick-and-mortar location with different fresh local food may be a new (and delicious) take on creating a way for the wealth of Bay Area food makers to get their goods to our mouths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kitcheneroakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Kitchener Oakland\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n372 24th St., Oakland\u003cbr>\n510-835-5885\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KitchenerOAK\" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com/KitchenerOAK\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "The System Supplying America's Chickens Pits Farmer vs. Farmer",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1672px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/img_8673_new2_wide-b3f908a99e476f5a6323f8fcf24d2b7b6f505cc7.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/img_8673_new2_wide-b3f908a99e476f5a6323f8fcf24d2b7b6f505cc7.jpg\" alt=\"Benny Bunting, a farm advocate for Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA, in front of one of his old chicken houses in Oak City, N.C. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"1672\" height=\"941\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78429\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benny Bunting, a farm advocate for Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA, in front of one of his old chicken houses in Oak City, N.C. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/20/279040721/the-system-that-supplies-our-chickens-pits-farmer-against-farmer\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (2/20/2014)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/20/279040721/the-system-that-supplies-our-chickens-pits-farmer-against-farmer\">Morning Edition\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2014/02/20140220_me_the_system_that_supplies_our_chickens_pits_farmer_against_farmer.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After reading Christopher Leonard's \u003cem>The Meat Racket\u003c/em>, a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/02/19/is-tyson-foods-chicken-empire-a-meat-racket/\">broadside\u003c/a> against the contract-farming system, I decided to take a closer look at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I drove to North Carolina and ended up in the kind of place that supplies practically all of our chickens: a metal-sided, 500-foot-long structure near the town of Fairmont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the dim light, I see 30,000 little chicks scuttling around on the floor. \"They're 12 days old,\" explains Craig Watts, who's growing these birds for Perdue Farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perdue owns the chickens. It also supplies the feed that they eat. About a month from now, when the birds have grown to about 4.5 pounds, the company will send a truck to carry them away, and Watts will get paid. But he never knows how big his check will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like that test you took in school — you kind of want to know how you did, but you really don't? It's that kind of feeling,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uncertainty is part of a peculiar payment system that the chicken industry uses. It's often called a tournament. Critics say it's more like a lottery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78430\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1448px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/img_8648_new-7d5fe3cca2adb6ca16b0615fc77b511fd162bbc6.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/img_8648_new-7d5fe3cca2adb6ca16b0615fc77b511fd162bbc6.jpg\" alt=\"Craig Watts produces chickens for Perdue on his farm in Fairmont, N.C. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"1448\" height=\"1087\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78430\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Craig Watts produces chickens for Perdue on his farm in Fairmont, N.C. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The companies set an average price that they will pay for raising the chickens — in this case, 5 cents per pound. But some farmers will get more than that, and others less, depending on a formula that measures their performance. It's mainly based on feed efficiency: how much weight the chickens gained, compared to how much feed the company supplied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farmers are ranked, like teams competing in a sports league. The top-ranked farmer can get paid up to 50 percent more, per pound of chicken delivered, than the one at the bottom. \"The pie doesn't change,\" Watts says. It's just divided into bigger and smaller slices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entire chicken industry uses this system, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/profile/tom-vukina/\">Tom Vukina\u003c/a>, an economist at North Carolina State University who's studied it, says that from an economic point of view, it's beautiful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is really brilliant,\" says Vukina. It solves problems that academic economists have examined with high-powered theory. Problems such as how companies can make sure workers do a good job when they can't be monitored, or how to convince independent contractors to invest in new equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This thing has phenomenal, theoretically correct design features that [the industry] came up with knowing absolutely nothing about contract theory,\" Vukina says, chuckling. \"It's actually remarkable! Totally mind-boggling!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the result is efficient production, and society as a whole is better off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet some people involved in contract farming say it doesn't benefit everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's at the expense of the farmer, because the farmer's not the one making money. The company is making money,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://rafiusa.org/benny-bunting/\">Benny Bunting\u003c/a>, a former chicken farmer who now works for \u003ca href=\"http://rafiusa.org/\">Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA\u003c/a>, an organization devoted to farmers' rights. His job is to provide advice to farmers who find themselves in financial trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're sitting in Bunting's home in the small town of Oak City, N.C. Across from us is a wall of shelves filled with thick binders. Each binder bears the name of a farm family that ended up deeply in debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every one of them is a person's life,\" says Bunting. \"The thing about my job is, most times, I meet people at the lowest time in their life, when they're in financial problems. That's what this represents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of those farmers raised chickens. Bunting says they discovered, too late, that raising chickens is a raw deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To explain, he pulls out a brochure that \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandersonfarms.com/\">Sanderson Farms\u003c/a>, another poultry company, passed out while recruiting new farmers a few years ago. The cover shows brand-new chicken houses, gleaming and clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turn the page, and the document shows how much a farmer can earn, in one year, from four big chicken houses: $222,856.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imagine you're a farmer, Bunting says. Here's what you're thinking: \"I'm going to make that, but I'm going to get a bonus on top of that. Because I'm going to be the \u003cem>top\u003c/em> grower.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's the perception,\" Bunting continues. \"Everyone thinks that they're going to be in the top percentile.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brochure does lay out costs. There's one huge one: Building the chicken houses will cost a million dollars, which means taking on a mountain of debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after making payments on that loan, the brochure estimates a farmer can clear $60,000 in profits. \"That looks really good,\" Bunting says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then you get into the business, he says, and you discover that there are expenses the brochure didn't really mention, such as repairs, a tractor and additional labor. That can eat up your profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, there's the uncertainty created by the tournament. This is not Lake Wobegon. No matter how hard the farmers work, half of them will be below average and make less money than the numbers in the brochure. According to Bunting, it means they won't be making enough to service that debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The really unfair thing, according to Craig Watts, is that whether he ends up at the top or the bottom of the rankings is out of his control. It seems to depend mainly on which birds the company sent him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've been a good grower, I've been a bad grower, and I've been an every-point-in-between grower, and I'm the same guy doing the same thing,\" he says. \"I'm the only thing that's constant on that farm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But once you owe all that money, he says, you're stuck, because those loans are secured by the land on your farm, or by your home. \"We've got ties to the land, and they exploit that, because we're going to do whatever it takes not to lose our farm,\" Watts says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's one more aspect of contract farming, beyond the simple arithmetic of income and expenses, that makes some farmers angry. It's the feeling that this is not a deal between equals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got to bite our tongue and do what they say, or face the consequences of being bankrupt,\" says Benny Bunting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chicken companies, for their part, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/The-Meat-Racket-Myths-and-Facts.pdf\">say\u003c/a> the contracts they offer farmers are, in fact, fair. William Roenigk, a senior vice president at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/\">Chicken Council\u003c/a>, which represents the poultry industry, points out that contract farming has been around for 50 years. Farmers know exactly how it works, he says. And new farmers still want to sign up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If this was not a good contractual relationship, overall, why would farmers who are not in the chicken business want to get into the chicken business?\" he asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Postles has raised chickens for 30 years in Milford, Del. He says it has been a good choice, and he has no problem with the tournament payment system. \"It encourages producers to be efficient and to be vigilant in their management,\" he says. \"I think that's a fair system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's hard to know how many contract farmers agree with Postles. In one survey of poultry farmers in Delaware, three-quarters of those who responded were satisfied with their arrangement. But more than half of them also said that, in their opinion, the companies will retaliate if a farmer raises concerns. Many farmers didn't respond to the \u003ca href=\"http://udel.edu/~ilvento/SUMMARY.PDF\">survey\u003c/a>, which was commissioned by the chicken industry and conducted by the University of Delaware.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complaints have been common enough that several years ago, the Obama administration proposed new rules to address them. The rules were supposed to give contract farmers more predictable minimum pay, and a better chance of getting compensation if a company treated them unfairly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chicken industry lobbied hard against those rules, and blocked many of them from going into effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, contract farming is still expanding. It's now the way that most pork is produced, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perdue owns the chickens. It also supplies the feed that they eat. About a month from now, when the birds have grown to about 4.5 pounds, the company will send a truck to carry them away, and Watts will get paid. But he never knows how big his check will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like that test you took in school — you kind of want to know how you did, but you really don't? It's that kind of feeling,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uncertainty is part of a peculiar payment system that the chicken industry uses. It's often called a tournament. Critics say it's more like a lottery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78430\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1448px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/img_8648_new-7d5fe3cca2adb6ca16b0615fc77b511fd162bbc6.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/img_8648_new-7d5fe3cca2adb6ca16b0615fc77b511fd162bbc6.jpg\" alt=\"Craig Watts produces chickens for Perdue on his farm in Fairmont, N.C. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"1448\" height=\"1087\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78430\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Craig Watts produces chickens for Perdue on his farm in Fairmont, N.C. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The companies set an average price that they will pay for raising the chickens — in this case, 5 cents per pound. But some farmers will get more than that, and others less, depending on a formula that measures their performance. It's mainly based on feed efficiency: how much weight the chickens gained, compared to how much feed the company supplied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farmers are ranked, like teams competing in a sports league. The top-ranked farmer can get paid up to 50 percent more, per pound of chicken delivered, than the one at the bottom. \"The pie doesn't change,\" Watts says. It's just divided into bigger and smaller slices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entire chicken industry uses this system, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/profile/tom-vukina/\">Tom Vukina\u003c/a>, an economist at North Carolina State University who's studied it, says that from an economic point of view, it's beautiful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is really brilliant,\" says Vukina. It solves problems that academic economists have examined with high-powered theory. Problems such as how companies can make sure workers do a good job when they can't be monitored, or how to convince independent contractors to invest in new equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This thing has phenomenal, theoretically correct design features that [the industry] came up with knowing absolutely nothing about contract theory,\" Vukina says, chuckling. \"It's actually remarkable! Totally mind-boggling!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the result is efficient production, and society as a whole is better off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet some people involved in contract farming say it doesn't benefit everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's at the expense of the farmer, because the farmer's not the one making money. The company is making money,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://rafiusa.org/benny-bunting/\">Benny Bunting\u003c/a>, a former chicken farmer who now works for \u003ca href=\"http://rafiusa.org/\">Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA\u003c/a>, an organization devoted to farmers' rights. His job is to provide advice to farmers who find themselves in financial trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're sitting in Bunting's home in the small town of Oak City, N.C. Across from us is a wall of shelves filled with thick binders. Each binder bears the name of a farm family that ended up deeply in debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every one of them is a person's life,\" says Bunting. \"The thing about my job is, most times, I meet people at the lowest time in their life, when they're in financial problems. That's what this represents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of those farmers raised chickens. Bunting says they discovered, too late, that raising chickens is a raw deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To explain, he pulls out a brochure that \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandersonfarms.com/\">Sanderson Farms\u003c/a>, another poultry company, passed out while recruiting new farmers a few years ago. The cover shows brand-new chicken houses, gleaming and clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turn the page, and the document shows how much a farmer can earn, in one year, from four big chicken houses: $222,856.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imagine you're a farmer, Bunting says. Here's what you're thinking: \"I'm going to make that, but I'm going to get a bonus on top of that. Because I'm going to be the \u003cem>top\u003c/em> grower.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's the perception,\" Bunting continues. \"Everyone thinks that they're going to be in the top percentile.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brochure does lay out costs. There's one huge one: Building the chicken houses will cost a million dollars, which means taking on a mountain of debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after making payments on that loan, the brochure estimates a farmer can clear $60,000 in profits. \"That looks really good,\" Bunting says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then you get into the business, he says, and you discover that there are expenses the brochure didn't really mention, such as repairs, a tractor and additional labor. That can eat up your profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, there's the uncertainty created by the tournament. This is not Lake Wobegon. No matter how hard the farmers work, half of them will be below average and make less money than the numbers in the brochure. According to Bunting, it means they won't be making enough to service that debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The really unfair thing, according to Craig Watts, is that whether he ends up at the top or the bottom of the rankings is out of his control. It seems to depend mainly on which birds the company sent him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've been a good grower, I've been a bad grower, and I've been an every-point-in-between grower, and I'm the same guy doing the same thing,\" he says. \"I'm the only thing that's constant on that farm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But once you owe all that money, he says, you're stuck, because those loans are secured by the land on your farm, or by your home. \"We've got ties to the land, and they exploit that, because we're going to do whatever it takes not to lose our farm,\" Watts says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's one more aspect of contract farming, beyond the simple arithmetic of income and expenses, that makes some farmers angry. It's the feeling that this is not a deal between equals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got to bite our tongue and do what they say, or face the consequences of being bankrupt,\" says Benny Bunting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chicken companies, for their part, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/The-Meat-Racket-Myths-and-Facts.pdf\">say\u003c/a> the contracts they offer farmers are, in fact, fair. William Roenigk, a senior vice president at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/\">Chicken Council\u003c/a>, which represents the poultry industry, points out that contract farming has been around for 50 years. Farmers know exactly how it works, he says. And new farmers still want to sign up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If this was not a good contractual relationship, overall, why would farmers who are not in the chicken business want to get into the chicken business?\" he asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Postles has raised chickens for 30 years in Milford, Del. He says it has been a good choice, and he has no problem with the tournament payment system. \"It encourages producers to be efficient and to be vigilant in their management,\" he says. \"I think that's a fair system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's hard to know how many contract farmers agree with Postles. In one survey of poultry farmers in Delaware, three-quarters of those who responded were satisfied with their arrangement. But more than half of them also said that, in their opinion, the companies will retaliate if a farmer raises concerns. Many farmers didn't respond to the \u003ca href=\"http://udel.edu/~ilvento/SUMMARY.PDF\">survey\u003c/a>, which was commissioned by the chicken industry and conducted by the University of Delaware.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complaints have been common enough that several years ago, the Obama administration proposed new rules to address them. The rules were supposed to give contract farmers more predictable minimum pay, and a better chance of getting compensation if a company treated them unfairly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chicken industry lobbied hard against those rules, and blocked many of them from going into effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, contract farming is still expanding. It's now the way that most pork is produced, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1674px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/istock_000023604746medium_wide-72382fd547b55268f978f384fb48625a75d97885.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/istock_000023604746medium_wide-72382fd547b55268f978f384fb48625a75d97885.jpg\" alt=\"Do these chickens look medicated? Photo: iStockphoto\" width=\"1674\" height=\"940\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78401\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Do these chickens look medicated? Photo: iStockphoto\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Maria Godoy, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/14/276976353/americans-want-antibiotic-free-chicken-and-the-industry-is-listening\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (2/19/2014)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an age when consumers want transparency in how their food is produced, meat producers are under the microscope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the meat industry is responding: Antibiotic free chicken is showing up everywhere you look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry leviathans Perdue Farms and Tyson Foods have both come out with their own antibiotic-free brands of chicken – something that might have seemed practically unthinkable several years back. In fact, this week Perdue is launching its first consumer advertising campaign for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.harvestlandbrand.com/\">Harvestland\u003c/a> product line – which the company claims is the nation's leading antibiotic-free brand of chicken. The ads urge shoppers to \"eat like our ancestors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78402\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 223px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/hl_print_family_custom-5551cfeb2a2018d771ff220cf325279864e71555.jpe\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/hl_print_family_custom-5551cfeb2a2018d771ff220cf325279864e71555-223x290.jpe\" alt=\"Perdue's new ad campaign for its Harvestland brand of antibiotic-free chicken urges consumers to "eat like our ancestors." Photo: Courtesy of Harvestland\" width=\"223\" height=\"290\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-78402\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perdue's new ad campaign for its Harvestland brand of antibiotic-free chicken urges consumers to \"eat like our ancestors.\" Photo: Courtesy of Harvestland\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a recent reporting trip to eastern North Carolina, my colleague Dan Charles found that all of the contract growers for Perdue in the region were already raising chickens without antibiotics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wave of naturalness is also hitting restaurants. Just last week, chicken-and-waffle-fry purveyor \u003ca href=\"http://media.chick-fil-a.com/Media/PDF/Chick-fil-A%20to%20Serve%20ABF%20Chicken.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Chick-fil-A announced\u003c/a> it will completely phase out the use of chickens raised with antibiotics within five years. With some 1,800 retail outlets nationwide, the restaurant bills itself as the country' s largest chicken chain by domestic sales volume, which makes Chick-fil-A's decision big news in the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Chick-fil-A move does signal an important market change in responding to what consumers have been demanding for some time — that we stop feeding healthy animals daily antibiotics,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://consumersunion.org/experts/urvashi-rangan/\">Urvashi Rangan\u003c/a>, director of the food safety and sustainability group at \u003cem>Consumer Reports. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, while antibiotic-free chicken is still a relatively small fraction of the market – accounting for about 9 percent of all fresh chicken sales in 2013 – it's a \"fast-growing sector,\" says Joe Kolano with \u003ca href=\"http://www.freshlookmarketing.com/index.htm\">IRI/FreshLook,\u003c/a> which tracks retail sales of perishable groceries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving that growth is concern about the risks associated with routine use of antibiotics in farm animals, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/johns-hopkins-center-for-a-livable-future/about/staff/Bios/martin.html\">Bob Martin\u003c/a>, director of food systems at the Center for Sustainable Living at Johns Hopkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we've reported in our series \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/tags/243035549/pharmed-food\">Pharmed Food,\u003c/a> use of antibiotics in livestock – especially in the low doses used for growth promotion – could lead to more antibiotic-resistant bacteria in animals and, eventually, in people too. Last fall, the Food and Drug Administration released long-awaited \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/12/12/drug-companies-accept-fda-plan-to-phase-out-some-animal-antibiotic-uses/\">voluntary guidelines\u003c/a> that are intended to end the use of medically important antibiotics to fuel growth or improve feed efficiency within three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's easier to make the switch\" away from antibiotics with chickens, Martin notes, because the animals have a relatively short life cycle: A broiler can reach market weight in less than two months, while hogs and cattle take a lot longer. \u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it is good for public health that the industry is switching from antibiotic use,\" Martin says, \"because we consume a lot more chicken than any other meat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the challenges of raising chickens free of antibiotics comes while the birds are still just eggs at the hatchery. As Tom Philpott \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/01/organic-chicken-and-egg-antibiotics-edition\">reported recently\u003c/a> for \u003cem>Mother Jones\u003c/em>, eggs that will go on to become broiler birds (the kind raised for their meat) are routinely injected with a small dose of the antibiotic gentamicin before getting vaccinated against a common, deadly herpes virus that attacks chickens. The idea is that the antibiotic sterilizes the vaccination site. And guess what? Under USDA rules, even eggs that will go on to be sold as organic chickens can receive this dose of antibiotics on their first day of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's one reason why \"it takes more effort than people realize\" to raise broiler birds completely free of antibiotics, Perdue spokeswoman Julie DeYoung tells The Salt. Over the last five years, she says, Perdue has converted about 80 percent of its hatcheries to be completely antibiotic free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another year or so, all of Perdue's hatcheries will be antibiotics-free, DeYoung says. While most of those birds will go on to be sold as conventional chicken – they will receive antibiotics if a flock is sick or at risk – they will at least start off antibiotic free, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, raising birds without antibiotics doesn't address all of the issues that critics raise with industrial chicken production. For instance, \u003cem>Consumer Reports'\u003c/em> Rangan notes, it doesn't necessarily mean that chickens will be kept in cleaner or roomier houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Chipotle Mexican Grill \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/05/31/154084442/antibiotic-free-meat-business-is-booming-thanks-to-chipotle\">went\u003c/a> antibiotic-free more than a decade ago, it also required its suppliers to meet what it calls humane housing standards for chickens. Chick-fil-A isn't planning on doing that with its suppliers. Even so, Chipotle spokesman Chris Arnold welcomed the competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's great to see other people getting into this game, even if they aren't going as far as we do,\" Arnold tells us. \"The more people are raising the bar, the more the food chain will shift, and the more consumers will become knowledgeable about issues surrounding food production and why these things matter.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wave of naturalness is also hitting restaurants. Just last week, chicken-and-waffle-fry purveyor \u003ca href=\"http://media.chick-fil-a.com/Media/PDF/Chick-fil-A%20to%20Serve%20ABF%20Chicken.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Chick-fil-A announced\u003c/a> it will completely phase out the use of chickens raised with antibiotics within five years. With some 1,800 retail outlets nationwide, the restaurant bills itself as the country' s largest chicken chain by domestic sales volume, which makes Chick-fil-A's decision big news in the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Chick-fil-A move does signal an important market change in responding to what consumers have been demanding for some time — that we stop feeding healthy animals daily antibiotics,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://consumersunion.org/experts/urvashi-rangan/\">Urvashi Rangan\u003c/a>, director of the food safety and sustainability group at \u003cem>Consumer Reports. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, while antibiotic-free chicken is still a relatively small fraction of the market – accounting for about 9 percent of all fresh chicken sales in 2013 – it's a \"fast-growing sector,\" says Joe Kolano with \u003ca href=\"http://www.freshlookmarketing.com/index.htm\">IRI/FreshLook,\u003c/a> which tracks retail sales of perishable groceries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving that growth is concern about the risks associated with routine use of antibiotics in farm animals, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/johns-hopkins-center-for-a-livable-future/about/staff/Bios/martin.html\">Bob Martin\u003c/a>, director of food systems at the Center for Sustainable Living at Johns Hopkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we've reported in our series \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/tags/243035549/pharmed-food\">Pharmed Food,\u003c/a> use of antibiotics in livestock – especially in the low doses used for growth promotion – could lead to more antibiotic-resistant bacteria in animals and, eventually, in people too. Last fall, the Food and Drug Administration released long-awaited \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/12/12/drug-companies-accept-fda-plan-to-phase-out-some-animal-antibiotic-uses/\">voluntary guidelines\u003c/a> that are intended to end the use of medically important antibiotics to fuel growth or improve feed efficiency within three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's easier to make the switch\" away from antibiotics with chickens, Martin notes, because the animals have a relatively short life cycle: A broiler can reach market weight in less than two months, while hogs and cattle take a lot longer. \u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it is good for public health that the industry is switching from antibiotic use,\" Martin says, \"because we consume a lot more chicken than any other meat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the challenges of raising chickens free of antibiotics comes while the birds are still just eggs at the hatchery. As Tom Philpott \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/01/organic-chicken-and-egg-antibiotics-edition\">reported recently\u003c/a> for \u003cem>Mother Jones\u003c/em>, eggs that will go on to become broiler birds (the kind raised for their meat) are routinely injected with a small dose of the antibiotic gentamicin before getting vaccinated against a common, deadly herpes virus that attacks chickens. The idea is that the antibiotic sterilizes the vaccination site. And guess what? Under USDA rules, even eggs that will go on to be sold as organic chickens can receive this dose of antibiotics on their first day of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's one reason why \"it takes more effort than people realize\" to raise broiler birds completely free of antibiotics, Perdue spokeswoman Julie DeYoung tells The Salt. Over the last five years, she says, Perdue has converted about 80 percent of its hatcheries to be completely antibiotic free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another year or so, all of Perdue's hatcheries will be antibiotics-free, DeYoung says. While most of those birds will go on to be sold as conventional chicken – they will receive antibiotics if a flock is sick or at risk – they will at least start off antibiotic free, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, raising birds without antibiotics doesn't address all of the issues that critics raise with industrial chicken production. 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"disqusTitle": "Is Tyson Foods' Chicken Empire a 'Meat Racket'?",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1672px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/ap03061904596-copy_wide-04e046a71a76521f2db3a98d6057ea0534e9dc32.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/ap03061904596-copy_wide-04e046a71a76521f2db3a98d6057ea0534e9dc32.jpg\" alt=\"Chickens gather around a feeder in a Tyson Foods poultry house in Washington County, Ark. Photo: April L. Brown/AP\" width=\"1672\" height=\"940\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78388\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chickens gather around a feeder in a Tyson Foods poultry house in Washington County, Ark. Photo: April L. Brown/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/19/276981085/is-tyson-foods-chicken-empire-a-meat-racket\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (2/19/2014)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/19/276981085/is-tyson-foods-chicken-empire-a-meat-racket\">Morning Edition\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2014/02/20140219_me_is_tyson_foods_chicken_empire_a_meat_racket.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Leonard's new exposé on the chicken industry, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/The-Meat-Racket-Takeover-Americas/dp/1451645813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1392403784&sr=8-1&keywords=meat+racket\">The Meat Racket\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, doesn't devote much ink to the physical object on our plate, the chicken meat itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Leonard focuses on the economic machinery that delivers the meat to us, or, as he puts it, \"the hidden power structure that has quietly reshaped U.S. rural economies while gaining unprecedented control over the nation's meat supply.\" His book aims a spotlight at Tyson Foods, which helped create the modern chicken industry. And it recounts the stories of people, mostly farmers, whom Leonard contends Tyson has chewed up and cast aside since its incorporation in 1947.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leonard, now a fellow at the \u003ca href=\"http://newamerica.net/\">New America Foundation\u003c/a>, once worked for the \u003cem>Arkansas Democrat-Gazette\u003c/em>, covering business news in Tyson's home territory. And there's a note of admiration in Leonard's description of Don Tyson, the man who drove the company's rise to global superpower of meat after taking over the company when his father, John, died in 1967.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78392\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 252px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/dontyson_custom-e4e436a506d04f6a9af7b42019bbcb4bdef0520a-s3-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/dontyson_custom-e4e436a506d04f6a9af7b42019bbcb4bdef0520a-s3-c85-252x290.jpg\" alt=\"Don Tyson took over as president of Tyson Foods in 1967 and ran the company until his death in 2011. Photo: Hudson Photography Inc./Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"252\" height=\"290\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-78392\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Tyson took over as president of Tyson Foods in 1967 and ran the company until his death in 2011. Photo: Hudson Photography Inc./Wikimedia Commons\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I think he was a genius,\" Leonard tells NPR's Renée Montagne on \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em>. \"Don Tyson had the ability to see the world as it did not yet exist. He saw that chicken would soon replace beef or pork as the most popular meat in the United States.\" (For more, listen to the entire interview.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leonard has no admiration at all, though, for the system of chicken production that Tyson built, which \"keeps farmers in a state of indebted servitude, living like modern-day sharecroppers on the ragged edge of bankruptcy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leonard's criticisms are not new. Activist groups devoted to farmers' rights, such as \u003ca href=\"http://rafiusa.org/\">Rural Advancement Foundation International\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.iatp.org/\">Institute for Agricultural and Trade Policy\u003c/a>, have been fighting against concentration in the poultry and meat-packing industries for many years. In the early days of the Obama administration, the Department of Agriculture and the Justice Department held public \u003ca href=\"http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/workshops/ag2010/\">hearings\u003c/a> on alleged abuses by companies that dominate the meat business. Just a few weeks ago, the Pew Charitable Trusts released its own \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewenvironment.org/news-room/reports/the-business-of-broilers-hidden-costs-of-putting-a-chicken-on-every-grill-85899528152\">critique\u003c/a> of the broiler industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leonard's book, however, is probably the most detailed account of the inner workings of Tyson, as well as the relationship between poultry companies and the not-so-independent farmers who actually raise the birds. That relationship is often called \"contract farming.\" It was invented by the poultry industry, but is now gaining ground in the pork and beef industries, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this system, the farmer owns the chicken houses, but the poultry companies are very much in control. They deliver the chicks on their own schedule — in fact, they aren't required to deliver any flocks at all. They supply the feed, and the feed additives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 624px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/gr-tyson-chicken-tons-624.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/gr-tyson-chicken-tons-624.png\" alt=\"Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service Credit: NPR\" width=\"624\" height=\"354\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78393\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service\u003cbr>Credit: NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leonard depicts that relationship as something like a con game run by the companies for their own benefit. \"Almost invariably, from everything I've seen, the farmer loses,\" he told \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em>. \"The farmer takes the brunt of the volatility; the farmer swallows the worst of the losses when there is a problem with their chickens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leonard tells the stories of farmers who've fallen into bankruptcy, and implies that this outcome is almost inevitable. The National Chicken Council, an industry lobbying group, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/new-book-misses-mark-nothing-educate-consumers-realities-modern-poultry-production/\">responded\u003c/a> with two pages of quotes from poultry producers who stoutly defend the contract growing systems. It also pointed out that when grain prices spiked a few years ago, chicken companies ate huge losses, while contract farmers, who didn't have to pay directly for the feed, were protected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson, in a separate statement, said \"we depend on [contract farmers] and want them to succeed. Some of them have been raising livestock and poultry for us for decades, and in some cases, for multiple generations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 624px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/gr-tyson-revenue-624.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/gr-tyson-revenue-624.png\" alt=\"Source: SEC filings Credit: NPR\" width=\"624\" height=\"354\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78394\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: SEC filings\u003cbr>Credit: NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Meat Racket\u003c/em>'s description of the problems with contract farming is more convincing than its ideas for how to build a better, more equitable alternative. Leonard, for instance, endorses the modest reforms put in place in Iowa, which guarantee farmers certain rights, such as the right to share contract information. But those reforms don't touch the basic shape of the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His more ambitious hope is for a revival of free markets in meat production instead of vertically integrated supply chains run by big companies. Yet it's unclear whether this would really improve things. Competition among farmers is a brutal reality of commodity production; as farmers push to become more efficient, it drives down prices and pushes the weakest out of the business. In poultry, the companies run that competition; in many other commodities, free markets do the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few American consumers seem to care very much about that. After all, if competition keeps prices low, why should they complain?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leonard thinks the situation has changed, and that poultry superpowers now are using their power to raise chicken prices, squeezing consumers as well as farmers. Yet the industry's ability to protect its profits still seems limited. Five years ago, one of the biggest poultry companies in the country, Pilgrim's Pride, actually went bankrupt when feed prices soared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pilgrim's Pride was snapped up by JBS, a Brazil-based multinational. It's now the biggest producer of meat in the world, ahead of Tyson. Increasing concentration in the meat industry, once fueled by Don Tyson's ambition, continues even without him.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Tyson Responds\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read Tyson Foods' emailed statement to NPR responding to Christopher Leonard's observations.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Contrary to critics like Mr. Leonard, we provide opportunities for farmers to prosper and consumers to buy safe, affordable food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tyson Foods is \u003ca href=\"http://www.tysonfoods.com/Our-Story/Farmers.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">one of the leading supporters of American farmers\u003c/a>, paying more than $15 billion last year alone to the thousands of independent farmers who supply us. We depend on them and want them to succeed. Some of them have been raising livestock and poultry for us for decades, and in some cases, for multiple generations. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Leonard's new exposé on the chicken industry, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/The-Meat-Racket-Takeover-Americas/dp/1451645813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1392403784&sr=8-1&keywords=meat+racket\">The Meat Racket\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, doesn't devote much ink to the physical object on our plate, the chicken meat itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Leonard focuses on the economic machinery that delivers the meat to us, or, as he puts it, \"the hidden power structure that has quietly reshaped U.S. rural economies while gaining unprecedented control over the nation's meat supply.\" His book aims a spotlight at Tyson Foods, which helped create the modern chicken industry. And it recounts the stories of people, mostly farmers, whom Leonard contends Tyson has chewed up and cast aside since its incorporation in 1947.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leonard, now a fellow at the \u003ca href=\"http://newamerica.net/\">New America Foundation\u003c/a>, once worked for the \u003cem>Arkansas Democrat-Gazette\u003c/em>, covering business news in Tyson's home territory. And there's a note of admiration in Leonard's description of Don Tyson, the man who drove the company's rise to global superpower of meat after taking over the company when his father, John, died in 1967.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78392\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 252px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/dontyson_custom-e4e436a506d04f6a9af7b42019bbcb4bdef0520a-s3-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/dontyson_custom-e4e436a506d04f6a9af7b42019bbcb4bdef0520a-s3-c85-252x290.jpg\" alt=\"Don Tyson took over as president of Tyson Foods in 1967 and ran the company until his death in 2011. Photo: Hudson Photography Inc./Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"252\" height=\"290\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-78392\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Tyson took over as president of Tyson Foods in 1967 and ran the company until his death in 2011. Photo: Hudson Photography Inc./Wikimedia Commons\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I think he was a genius,\" Leonard tells NPR's Renée Montagne on \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em>. \"Don Tyson had the ability to see the world as it did not yet exist. He saw that chicken would soon replace beef or pork as the most popular meat in the United States.\" (For more, listen to the entire interview.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Just a few weeks ago, the Pew Charitable Trusts released its own \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewenvironment.org/news-room/reports/the-business-of-broilers-hidden-costs-of-putting-a-chicken-on-every-grill-85899528152\">critique\u003c/a> of the broiler industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leonard's book, however, is probably the most detailed account of the inner workings of Tyson, as well as the relationship between poultry companies and the not-so-independent farmers who actually raise the birds. That relationship is often called \"contract farming.\" It was invented by the poultry industry, but is now gaining ground in the pork and beef industries, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this system, the farmer owns the chicken houses, but the poultry companies are very much in control. They deliver the chicks on their own schedule — in fact, they aren't required to deliver any flocks at all. They supply the feed, and the feed additives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 624px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/gr-tyson-chicken-tons-624.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/gr-tyson-chicken-tons-624.png\" alt=\"Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service Credit: NPR\" width=\"624\" height=\"354\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78393\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service\u003cbr>Credit: NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leonard depicts that relationship as something like a con game run by the companies for their own benefit. \"Almost invariably, from everything I've seen, the farmer loses,\" he told \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em>. \"The farmer takes the brunt of the volatility; the farmer swallows the worst of the losses when there is a problem with their chickens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leonard tells the stories of farmers who've fallen into bankruptcy, and implies that this outcome is almost inevitable. The National Chicken Council, an industry lobbying group, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/new-book-misses-mark-nothing-educate-consumers-realities-modern-poultry-production/\">responded\u003c/a> with two pages of quotes from poultry producers who stoutly defend the contract growing systems. It also pointed out that when grain prices spiked a few years ago, chicken companies ate huge losses, while contract farmers, who didn't have to pay directly for the feed, were protected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson, in a separate statement, said \"we depend on [contract farmers] and want them to succeed. Some of them have been raising livestock and poultry for us for decades, and in some cases, for multiple generations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 624px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/gr-tyson-revenue-624.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/gr-tyson-revenue-624.png\" alt=\"Source: SEC filings Credit: NPR\" width=\"624\" height=\"354\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78394\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: SEC filings\u003cbr>Credit: NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Meat Racket\u003c/em>'s description of the problems with contract farming is more convincing than its ideas for how to build a better, more equitable alternative. Leonard, for instance, endorses the modest reforms put in place in Iowa, which guarantee farmers certain rights, such as the right to share contract information. But those reforms don't touch the basic shape of the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His more ambitious hope is for a revival of free markets in meat production instead of vertically integrated supply chains run by big companies. Yet it's unclear whether this would really improve things. Competition among farmers is a brutal reality of commodity production; as farmers push to become more efficient, it drives down prices and pushes the weakest out of the business. In poultry, the companies run that competition; in many other commodities, free markets do the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few American consumers seem to care very much about that. After all, if competition keeps prices low, why should they complain?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leonard thinks the situation has changed, and that poultry superpowers now are using their power to raise chicken prices, squeezing consumers as well as farmers. Yet the industry's ability to protect its profits still seems limited. Five years ago, one of the biggest poultry companies in the country, Pilgrim's Pride, actually went bankrupt when feed prices soared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pilgrim's Pride was snapped up by JBS, a Brazil-based multinational. It's now the biggest producer of meat in the world, ahead of Tyson. Increasing concentration in the meat industry, once fueled by Don Tyson's ambition, continues even without him.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Tyson Responds\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read Tyson Foods' emailed statement to NPR responding to Christopher Leonard's observations.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Contrary to critics like Mr. Leonard, we provide opportunities for farmers to prosper and consumers to buy safe, affordable food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tyson Foods is \u003ca href=\"http://www.tysonfoods.com/Our-Story/Farmers.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">one of the leading supporters of American farmers\u003c/a>, paying more than $15 billion last year alone to the thousands of independent farmers who supply us. We depend on them and want them to succeed. Some of them have been raising livestock and poultry for us for decades, and in some cases, for multiple generations. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1674px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/180991506_wide-593dd75d67c04080108a669092e043a876fa7ec1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/180991506_wide-593dd75d67c04080108a669092e043a876fa7ec1.jpg\" alt=\"Bitcoin isn't just for shady business — it can also buy you some delicious goodness. The Old Fitzroy pub in Sydney, Australia, is one of many food and drink businesses beginning to accept Bitcoin as a valid method of payment. Photo: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images\" width=\"1674\" height=\"940\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78361\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bitcoin isn't just for shady business — it can also buy you some delicious goodness. The Old Fitzroy pub in Sydney, Australia, is one of many food and drink businesses beginning to accept Bitcoin as a valid method of payment. Photo: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Linda Poon, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/18/275858587/order-up-food-businesses-find-an-appetite-for-bitcoin\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food \u003c/a>(2/18/2014)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hungry for a Philly cheesesteak or a hot Reuben sandwich? That'll be about 0.001 bitcoin, please.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From restaurants to breweries, to even your \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/11/12/have-bitcoin-to-burn-next-stop-could-be-the-farm/\">local farmers market\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1u1g2u/these_adorable_little_girls_just_sold_me/\">lemonade stand\u003c/a>, the popular cryptocurrency has inched its ways into the food industry, as more vendors consider it a valid form of payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike cash or credit, Bitcoin is an invisible currency that exists only online and can be transferred from person to person sans a centralized government or bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, you can use the virtual money to order Thai food and pizza through services like \u003ca href=\"Foodler\">Foodler\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://pizzaforcoins.com/\">Pizza For Coins\u003c/a>. There's a Subway in Allentown, Penn., that will gladly trade you a toasty 12-foot sub for the intangible currency. And sprinkled throughout the country are a handful of food trucks that have been testing Bitcoin out in the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heck, you can even use Bitcoin to prep for a zombie apocalypse at \u003ca href=\"http://www.survivalfood.com/bitcoin/\">SurvivalFood.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's just in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overseas, you can spend the currency at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thepinkcow.com/\">Pink Cow\u003c/a> café in Tokyo, \u003ca href=\"http://burgerbear.co.uk/\">Burger Bear\u003c/a> in London or the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/TheOldFitzroyHotel\">Old Fitzroy\u003c/a> pub in Sydney, Australia, all of which are among the firsts to accept Bitcoin in their respective cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The digital currency is a welcomed alternative to credit cards for many small businesses. There's little risk in setting up a \u003ca href=\"https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet\">Bitcoin wallet\u003c/a> for customers to directly transfer money into, and it beats the 3 percent merchant fee that vendors are charged for each credit card transaction. As the Huffington Post \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/23/credit-cards-restaurants-cashless-dining_n_2482242.html\">reports\u003c/a>, last year 81 percent of money spent in American restaurants was charged to debit, credit or prepaid cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you look at all of the transactions and all of those costs, they really add up,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty_research/faculty_directory/harvey/\">Campbell Harvey\u003c/a>, a financial economist at Duke University. So Bitcoin, he says, \"actually is an innovation that could potentially get rid of these transaction costs, and that makes it valuable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But saving money is only part of the reason. For the owners of \u003ca href=\"http://peruvianbrothers.com/\">Peruvian Brothers\u003c/a>, the first Bitcoin-friendly food truck in D.C., it's all about giving their customers options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the food truck [business], we're all about allowing our customers to purchase their food anyway they'd like,\" says Peruvian Brothers co-founder Giuseppe Lanzone. \"And now, having them pay with Bitcoin is a different way to do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To pay, customers simply scan the QR code on the food truck, which reflects the real time exchange rate between bitcoins and dollars, and hit send.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there's the even bigger incentive: the potential profit from how much the value of a bitcoin fluctuates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's what got Wesley Kaake, owner of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.houseofhunger.com/\">House and Hunger\u003c/a> food truck in Minneapolis, interested. They made their first sale in Bitcoin back in May 2013, selling a sandwich and fries for $10 worth of bitcoins. At that time, he says, one bitcoin was worth roughly $80.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Kaake talked to The Salt, the value of a bitcoin had surpassed $800. \"So holding on to that transaction alone, now knowing that it's 10 times that itself, I really did make a profit,\" Kaake says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, he's had a little under a dozen similar transactions – mainly from the more tech savvy crowd – and currently owns about 0.7 bitcoin altogether. Kaake says he has no plans to convert it to U.S. dollars until he hits a full bitcoin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just as the fluctuation can take you from rags to riches, bitcoin transactions can also go downhill for merchants. The value of the digital currency fell in the first week of February from a steady $850 to $700, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.coindesk.com/price/\">CoinDesk\u003c/a>, which tracks current Bitcoin prices. Currently, the value hovers around the low-to-mid-$600s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a store of value, Bitcoin is very unreliable today,\" Harvey says. \"It is 10 times more volatile than the changes in the price of gold. It is 20 times more volatile than holding U.S. dollars.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's why some food merchants, like Lanzone and his brother, Mario, have opted to cash in their bitcoin right after they make a sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The future of the 5-year-old Bitcoin is still uncertain. Millions of dollars' worth of bitcoins were seized from the infamous bust of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/10/03/228579712/the-man-behind-the-shadowy-illicit-drug-market-silk-road\">Silk Road\u003c/a>, a shadowy illicit online marketplace, and Bitcoin prices have taken a nosedive in the past months. Just last week, a glitch in Mt. Gox, the leading Bitcoin exchange site, made prices drop once again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bitcoin may be the highest profile and most widely established of all digital currencies, but more than \u003ca href=\"http://coinmarketcap.com/\">100 different kinds\u003c/a> exist, and Harvey says the concept of cryptocurrency may not be going away anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The basic idea is a good idea,\" he says. \"That is, to make the exchange of ownership more efficient.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what if – knock on wood – Bitcoin does become obsolete? Kaake says he won't have any regrets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ultimately, I can at least say that I was a part of it,\" he told The Salt, adding that he has faith that the Bitcoin is here to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do see more regulations coming and a lot more of an uphill battle for it,\" he says. \"But I guess I don't have a fear that it will go away completely and lose all of its value.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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There's little risk in setting up a \u003ca href=\"https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet\">Bitcoin wallet\u003c/a> for customers to directly transfer money into, and it beats the 3 percent merchant fee that vendors are charged for each credit card transaction. As the Huffington Post \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/23/credit-cards-restaurants-cashless-dining_n_2482242.html\">reports\u003c/a>, last year 81 percent of money spent in American restaurants was charged to debit, credit or prepaid cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you look at all of the transactions and all of those costs, they really add up,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty_research/faculty_directory/harvey/\">Campbell Harvey\u003c/a>, a financial economist at Duke University. So Bitcoin, he says, \"actually is an innovation that could potentially get rid of these transaction costs, and that makes it valuable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But saving money is only part of the reason. For the owners of \u003ca href=\"http://peruvianbrothers.com/\">Peruvian Brothers\u003c/a>, the first Bitcoin-friendly food truck in D.C., it's all about giving their customers options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the food truck [business], we're all about allowing our customers to purchase their food anyway they'd like,\" says Peruvian Brothers co-founder Giuseppe Lanzone. \"And now, having them pay with Bitcoin is a different way to do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To pay, customers simply scan the QR code on the food truck, which reflects the real time exchange rate between bitcoins and dollars, and hit send.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there's the even bigger incentive: the potential profit from how much the value of a bitcoin fluctuates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's what got Wesley Kaake, owner of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.houseofhunger.com/\">House and Hunger\u003c/a> food truck in Minneapolis, interested. They made their first sale in Bitcoin back in May 2013, selling a sandwich and fries for $10 worth of bitcoins. At that time, he says, one bitcoin was worth roughly $80.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Kaake talked to The Salt, the value of a bitcoin had surpassed $800. \"So holding on to that transaction alone, now knowing that it's 10 times that itself, I really did make a profit,\" Kaake says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, he's had a little under a dozen similar transactions – mainly from the more tech savvy crowd – and currently owns about 0.7 bitcoin altogether. Kaake says he has no plans to convert it to U.S. dollars until he hits a full bitcoin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just as the fluctuation can take you from rags to riches, bitcoin transactions can also go downhill for merchants. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78342\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/178573452.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/178573452.jpg\" alt=\"These websites can provide some places to purchase handy items for your kitchen. Photo: Thinkstock\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78342\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These websites can provide some places to purchase handy items for your kitchen. Photo: Thinkstock\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Of course you come to Bay Area Bites for all your Bay Area food needs. But, we (unfortunately) don't offer kitchen items for sale and we can't help you find the perfect \u003ca href=\"http://www.thriftynorthwestmom.com/amazon-pineapple-slicer-and-decorer-on-sale-for-4-14/\" target=\"_blank\">pineapple de-corer\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, we suggested \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/02/07/kitchen-gadgets-every-cook-has-to-have/\" title=\"Kitchen Gadgets Every Cook Has to Have\" target=\"_blank\">a number of items that most serious amateur chefs should have in their kitchen\u003c/a>. And, in the process of researching those kitchen gadgets, it became clear that amateur chefs also need to know where to get the items they need to elevate their kitchens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that spirit here are some kitchen sites you should visit before you start purchasing willy-nilly:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78345\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1065px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/williams-sonoma.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/williams-sonoma.jpg\" alt=\"Williams-Sonoma's website offers a wealth of high-end cooking utensils. Photo: Williams-Sonoma\" width=\"1065\" height=\"476\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78345\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Williams-Sonoma's website offers a wealth of high-end cooking utensils. Photo: Williams-Sonoma\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.williams-sonoma.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Williams-Sonoma\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.surlatable.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Sur La Table\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: These two are kind of the granddaddies of high-end kitchen stores. You can be virtually guaranteed that, if you're willing to spend the money, you can find any kind of kitchen gadget you could possibly want at Williams-Sonoma or Sur La Table. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams-Sonoma, of course, does many things besides kitchen items and also owns West Elm and Pottery Barn. Sur La Table, with just 100 retail stores to Williams-Sonoma's 560, specializes in \"the art and soul of cooking.\" Either is a great place to start when looking for an obscure kitchen tool that you simply can't live with out. And, the added benefit is that, with physical locations, you can always visit to test out how that zester really fits in your hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1309px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/food52.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/food52.jpg\" alt='Provisions by Food52 sorts its offerings by \"collections.\" Photo: Food52' width=\"1309\" height=\"541\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78346\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Provisions by Food52 sorts its offerings by \"collections.\" Photo: Food52\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://food52.com/provisions\" target=\"_blank\">Provisions by Food52\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Sure, Food52 started as website for cooks to read and talk about food. But, this past August, Food52 launched Provisions, which combines recipes with a catalog to buy the things you need to make the delicious-looking dishes in the pictures. The products are organized in collections like \"European Pastires\" or \"A Long Winter's Night\" or the practical \"Cleaning.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not as wholly comprehensive at the mega-stores and sites, Provisions by Food52 has more a hand-picked feel because the items are selected by the staff and by community members in Food52 -- and some of those items are unique only to Provisions. It's as much a place for inspiration as it is for serious checking off of your to-do list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78349\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1317px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/opensky.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/opensky.jpg\" alt=\"OpenSky has a unique feel to its store and items. Photo: OpenSky\" width=\"1317\" height=\"593\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78349\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OpenSky has a unique feel to its store and items. Photo: OpenSky\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>OpenSky\u003c/strong>: In its few years, OpenSky has changed its business model a couple times, but what it offers now are small online shops and collections picked by celebrities or organizations. 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Photo: Todd Plitt/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Michaeleen Doucleff, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/10/274660785/munchies-neuroscience-why-the-scent-of-a-burger-gives-us-a-high\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (2/10/14) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From cinnamon buns in the morning to a burger after a long run, food never smells as good as when you're super hungry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now scientists have uncovered a clue as to why that might be — and it lies in the munchies and marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Receptors in the brains of mice that light up when the animals are high are also activated when the critters are fasting, French scientists \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nn.3647.html\">reported\u003c/a> Sunday in the journal \u003cem>Nature Neuroscience\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, skipping a meal triggered the same hunger-inducing receptors that marijuana does. And it works, at least in mice, by boosting the sense of smell, neuroscientist \u003ca href=\"http://www.inb.u-bordeaux2.fr/dev/EN/researcher.php?researcher=Giovanni+Marsicano&id=125\">Giovanni Marsicano\u003c/a> and his team at the Universite de Bordeaux report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because the receptors that get activated are located in the smelling center of the brain. And sense of smell is known to be a key factor driving appetite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In case you're wondering, the mice didn't toke up. The researchers injected the rodents with \u003ca href=\"http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/summary/summary.cgi?cid=16078\">THC\u003c/a>, the active ingredient in marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, mice aren't men — especially when it comes to smelling. The little rodents spend much more of their lives sniffing out yummy food than we do. And they devote much more of their brain power to the activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are some hints that a similar mechanism may also be at work in people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77937\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/image1_sq-0d9056c066c4677ad50ee93025ec27c05d1e14c3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/image1_sq-0d9056c066c4677ad50ee93025ec27c05d1e14c3-290x290.jpg\" alt=\"We didn't make this up: The scientists who performed the study on how cannabis triggers the munchies through the sense of smell commissioned an artist to put this illustration together. Image: Charlie Padgett/Courtesy of Giovanni Marsicano\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-77937\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">We didn't make this up: The scientists who performed the study on how cannabis triggers the munchies through the sense of smell commissioned an artist to put this illustration together. Image: Charlie Padgett/Courtesy of Giovanni Marsicano\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When you skip a meal or fast, your brain creates compounds, called \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v27/n3/full/0802250a.html\">endocannibinoids\u003c/a> — appropriate, right? — that look and act similarly to THC. And not surprisingly, these chemicals drive you to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But hunger also makes you more sensitive to food aromas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Marsicano and his team thought perhaps the two processes — that burning desire to eat (i.e., munchies) and enhanced smelling — were linked. So he and his team went hunting for receptors in mouse brains that controlled both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They hit the jackpot when they looked in the mice's olfactory bulbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That part of the brain was packed with receptors that bind THC and ramp up the rodents' appetite — both when they'd been fasting and when they were high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These receptors also made the mice more sensitive to odors when their tummies were empty or their brains were stoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data suggest that the major way marijuana triggers the munchies — at least in mice — is through olfaction, Marsicano and his team write in the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for humans? We're a more complicated lot, and there's more than just the sense of smell at play when we get the munchies (from hunger or high). 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because the receptors that get activated are located in the smelling center of the brain. And sense of smell is known to be a key factor driving appetite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In case you're wondering, the mice didn't toke up. The researchers injected the rodents with \u003ca href=\"http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/summary/summary.cgi?cid=16078\">THC\u003c/a>, the active ingredient in marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, mice aren't men — especially when it comes to smelling. The little rodents spend much more of their lives sniffing out yummy food than we do. And they devote much more of their brain power to the activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are some hints that a similar mechanism may also be at work in people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77937\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/image1_sq-0d9056c066c4677ad50ee93025ec27c05d1e14c3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/image1_sq-0d9056c066c4677ad50ee93025ec27c05d1e14c3-290x290.jpg\" alt=\"We didn't make this up: The scientists who performed the study on how cannabis triggers the munchies through the sense of smell commissioned an artist to put this illustration together. Image: Charlie Padgett/Courtesy of Giovanni Marsicano\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-77937\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">We didn't make this up: The scientists who performed the study on how cannabis triggers the munchies through the sense of smell commissioned an artist to put this illustration together. Image: Charlie Padgett/Courtesy of Giovanni Marsicano\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When you skip a meal or fast, your brain creates compounds, called \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v27/n3/full/0802250a.html\">endocannibinoids\u003c/a> — appropriate, right? — that look and act similarly to THC. And not surprisingly, these chemicals drive you to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But hunger also makes you more sensitive to food aromas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Marsicano and his team thought perhaps the two processes — that burning desire to eat (i.e., munchies) and enhanced smelling — were linked. So he and his team went hunting for receptors in mouse brains that controlled both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They hit the jackpot when they looked in the mice's olfactory bulbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That part of the brain was packed with receptors that bind THC and ramp up the rodents' appetite — both when they'd been fasting and when they were high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These receptors also made the mice more sensitive to odors when their tummies were empty or their brains were stoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data suggest that the major way marijuana triggers the munchies — at least in mice — is through olfaction, Marsicano and his team write in the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for humans? We're a more complicated lot, and there's more than just the sense of smell at play when we get the munchies (from hunger or high). For starters, our \"cannabinoid\" receptors are located not just in our brains but in other parts of the body. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/32207694@N05/4018577865/in/photolist-787gcg-7ba19Q-7ijQWm-7pQau3-7qo7Pg-7uQwep-e6oU8o-iMJLLE-fQGyEU-ae3dmw-b8tAZv-9huuqk-bKynHK-bwDCNQ-bwDD1u-bwE7FC-8AUZSp-8NBRTt-eoiq3f-dLPV3K-7xCcwE-9b8ViE-c5u7Rq-bDnVKv-bDnVGB-7XWNFi-94FZz7-bvcC4e-7Deexg-bsMqXu-7ZvRcL-cFSMMY-9xmWH2-d14Dhj-bsugTW-7AuNWr-8X7LQD-cK25U3-7Y151Q-f7R3cA-bMCroD-dotjZq-bZaiMw-gRUjxu-dS8fuY-agNujV-7CVdx2-7PQCtW-8Jufjz-c4zMdL-byLWMD\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/4018577865_0e6c291421_z.jpg\" alt=\"A chef's kitchen can be filled with gadgets. Photo: Apples Matutina/Flickr\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77551\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A chef's kitchen can be filled with gadgets. Photo: Apples Matutina/Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are lots of things the amateur cook can stock in their kitchen. Some range from the absurd (\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Fox-Run-5431-PICKEL-PICKER/dp/B0000VLPP8?tag=vglnkc7198-20\" target=\"_blank\">a pickle picker\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pfaltzgraff.com/bbq-corn-butter-spreader/5073652.html\" target=\"_blank\">a corn butter-spreader\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.rollnpour.com/\" target=\"_blank\">the Roll 'n Pour\u003c/a> -- just in case pouring milk is too difficult) to the obvious (spatulas, mixers, bowls). But, in between is a range of gadgets obscure and not-so-obscure. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How do you know which are actually going to be useful and which just sound cool? Partially, it depends on the person. Maybe \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Back-Basics-TEM4500--Muffin-Toaster/dp/B000QA1224/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320159990&sr=8-1&tag=vglnkc7198-20\" target=\"_blank\">the egg-and-muffin toaster\u003c/a> is really the go-to breakfast gadget for you. Or, maybe you just can't stop crying every time you're slicing and \u003ca href=\"http://www.surlatable.com/product/PRO-527622/Onion+Goggles\" target=\"_blank\">Onion Goggles\u003c/a> might be the simple but amazing solution. What is useful to some, might be useless to other. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, though, are a handful of items that every chef should probably try at least once:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/71zG5oUleQL._SL1500_.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/71zG5oUleQL._SL1500_-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The Omega 8004 commercial juicer sells for $250. Photo: Omega\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-large wp-image-77553\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Omega 8004 commercial juicer sells for $250. Photo: Omega\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juicer\u003c/strong>: With \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/01/01/food-trends-bay-area-2013/\" title=\"Food Trends that Fed and Fueled the Bay Area in 2013\" target=\"_blank\">the juice craze still in full swing\u003c/a>, if you want to juice it makes sense to DIY instead of handing over money every time you'd like your food in liquid form. Debates over the best juicer rage across the internet, but you can't go wrong with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.omegajuicers.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Omega Juicers\u003c/a>. The 8004 Nutrition Center Commercial Masticating Juicer is one of the most popular juicers, \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001RLYOEE/?tag=gizmodoamzn-20&ascsubtag=%5Breferrer%7Cwww.google.com%5Btype%7Clink%5BpostId%7C1461169632%5Basin%7CB001RLYOEE%5BauthorId%7C5856732741879800112\" target=\"_blank\">costs over $200\u003c/a> and has 150 watts and a two horsepower motor. If that's more power than is necessary for your juicing needs, there are plenty of lower-key juicing options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/processor.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/processor.jpg\" alt=\"The Oster FPSTFP4010 food processor may be the best bet for your money. Photo: Oster\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77557\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oster FPSTFP4010 food processor may be the best bet for your money. Photo: Oster\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Food Processor\u003c/strong>: Of course, you can't juice all your food. Sometimes you need to process food (or cut or slice or dice). As mashing our food up has become more and more popular, food processors and juicers and blenders have flooded the market. It can be hard to know which will really do your processing well. According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2013/07/the-five-best-food-processors-from-our-tests-for-100-or-less/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Consumer Reports\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Oster-FPSTFP4010-4-Cup-Continuous-Processor/dp/B003A14M96\" target=\"_blank\">Oster FPSTFP4010\u003c/a> may be the best bet for your money at just $34. Though it's small, it is mighty. Or, if you really want to splurge, the top-rated \u003ca href=\"http://consumerreports.org/cro/appliances/kitchen-appliances/food-processors-choppers/food-processor-ratings/models/overview/breville-bfp800xl-a-99049067.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Breville BFP800XL/A\u003c/a> will do anything you want -- and will cost you $400.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 185px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/ice-45.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/ice-45.jpg\" alt=\"The Cuisinart Mix It In Soft Serve Ice Cream Maker. Photo: Cuisinart\" width=\"185\" height=\"265\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77558\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cuisinart Mix It In Soft Serve Ice Cream Maker. Photo: Cuisinart\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ice Cream Maker\u003c/strong>: OK, so no one \u003cem>needs \u003c/em>an ice cream maker. But, who doesn't want one? The problem with ice cream makers, though, is the ice cream never turns out quite as good as you hope. Many the hopeful ice cream maker has been scarred by memories of trying to churn and churn the ice cream as a child. Fortunately, ice cream technology has come a long way since then. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cuisinart.com/products/ice_cream/ice-45.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cuisinart Mix It In Soft Serve Ice Cream Maker\u003c/a> makes close to restaurant-level soft serve and lets you mix in toppings like sprinkles. Just combine that with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Breville-BPI640XL-Personal-Pie-Maker/dp/B004RF7QFQ/?tag=gizmodoamzn-20&ascsubtag=%5Breferrer%7Cwww.google.com%5Btype%7Clink%5BpostId%7C1461169632%5Basin%7CB004RF7QFQ%5BauthorId%7C5856732741879800112\" target=\"_blank\">Breville Personal Pie Maker\u003c/a> and you'll never go hungry again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 330px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/isrenderingengine.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/isrenderingengine.png\" alt=\"The Wusthof classic carving knife. Photo: Wusthof\" width=\"330\" height=\"47\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77564\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wusthof classic carving knife. Photo: Wusthof\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carbon Knives\u003c/strong>: The carbon v. steel debate may be controversial, but it's worth testing different kinds of knives. Stainless steel can be less likely to rust, but the carbon steel knives often provide a sharper edge -- as long as you maintain them regularly. For most of us it doesn't make much difference what kind of knife we use, but for the aspiring home chef at least one carbon knife is worth having. Some of the best include \u003ca href=\"http://shun.kaiusaltd.com/knives\" target=\"_blank\">Shun knives\u003c/a> made in Japan from 16 layers of a high-carbon stainless steel allow, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wusthof.com/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-75/52_view-121/categories-121/country-usa/wlang-2/\" target=\"_blank\">Wusthof\u003c/a> wide professional chef's knives made in Germany, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Sabatier-Forged-Carbon-Steel-France/dp/B007NZQSD8\" target=\"_blank\">Sabatier French knives\u003c/a> made by a 150-year-old company from 100% carbon steel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77561\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 299px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/stemgem.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/stemgem.jpg\" alt=\"The StemGem removes the stem from strawberries. Photo: Chef'n\" width=\"299\" height=\"289\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77561\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The StemGem removes the stem from strawberries. Photo: Chef'n\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peelers and Corers and Slicers\u003c/strong>: There's an entire sub-market in the kitchen tool industry of gadgets to de-core and un-stem and slice your vegetables and fruit. Some of them are pretty straight-forward like \u003ca href=\"http://www.discountjuicers.com/cucumberpeeler.html\" target=\"_blank\">the cucumber and zucchini peelers\u003c/a>. Some of them are very specific like \u003ca href=\"http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/four-in-one-avocado-tool/\" target=\"_blank\">the four-in-one avocado tool\u003c/a>. Then, there's the \u003ca href=\"http://www.chefn.com/Product.aspx?id=162\" target=\"_blank\">StemGem\u003c/a> -- a strawberry-shaped tool thats sole purpose is to cleanly remove the stems from strawberries. You should probably pick these tools based on which you eat most frequently.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What are your favorite gadgets in the kitchen? What are the ones that ended up being a waste?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/32207694@N05/4018577865/in/photolist-787gcg-7ba19Q-7ijQWm-7pQau3-7qo7Pg-7uQwep-e6oU8o-iMJLLE-fQGyEU-ae3dmw-b8tAZv-9huuqk-bKynHK-bwDCNQ-bwDD1u-bwE7FC-8AUZSp-8NBRTt-eoiq3f-dLPV3K-7xCcwE-9b8ViE-c5u7Rq-bDnVKv-bDnVGB-7XWNFi-94FZz7-bvcC4e-7Deexg-bsMqXu-7ZvRcL-cFSMMY-9xmWH2-d14Dhj-bsugTW-7AuNWr-8X7LQD-cK25U3-7Y151Q-f7R3cA-bMCroD-dotjZq-bZaiMw-gRUjxu-dS8fuY-agNujV-7CVdx2-7PQCtW-8Jufjz-c4zMdL-byLWMD\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/4018577865_0e6c291421_z.jpg\" alt=\"A chef's kitchen can be filled with gadgets. Photo: Apples Matutina/Flickr\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77551\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A chef's kitchen can be filled with gadgets. Photo: Apples Matutina/Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are lots of things the amateur cook can stock in their kitchen. Some range from the absurd (\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Fox-Run-5431-PICKEL-PICKER/dp/B0000VLPP8?tag=vglnkc7198-20\" target=\"_blank\">a pickle picker\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pfaltzgraff.com/bbq-corn-butter-spreader/5073652.html\" target=\"_blank\">a corn butter-spreader\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.rollnpour.com/\" target=\"_blank\">the Roll 'n Pour\u003c/a> -- just in case pouring milk is too difficult) to the obvious (spatulas, mixers, bowls). But, in between is a range of gadgets obscure and not-so-obscure. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How do you know which are actually going to be useful and which just sound cool? Partially, it depends on the person. Maybe \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Back-Basics-TEM4500--Muffin-Toaster/dp/B000QA1224/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320159990&sr=8-1&tag=vglnkc7198-20\" target=\"_blank\">the egg-and-muffin toaster\u003c/a> is really the go-to breakfast gadget for you. Or, maybe you just can't stop crying every time you're slicing and \u003ca href=\"http://www.surlatable.com/product/PRO-527622/Onion+Goggles\" target=\"_blank\">Onion Goggles\u003c/a> might be the simple but amazing solution. What is useful to some, might be useless to other. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, though, are a handful of items that every chef should probably try at least once:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/71zG5oUleQL._SL1500_.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/71zG5oUleQL._SL1500_-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The Omega 8004 commercial juicer sells for $250. Photo: Omega\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-large wp-image-77553\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Omega 8004 commercial juicer sells for $250. Photo: Omega\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juicer\u003c/strong>: With \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/01/01/food-trends-bay-area-2013/\" title=\"Food Trends that Fed and Fueled the Bay Area in 2013\" target=\"_blank\">the juice craze still in full swing\u003c/a>, if you want to juice it makes sense to DIY instead of handing over money every time you'd like your food in liquid form. Debates over the best juicer rage across the internet, but you can't go wrong with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.omegajuicers.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Omega Juicers\u003c/a>. The 8004 Nutrition Center Commercial Masticating Juicer is one of the most popular juicers, \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001RLYOEE/?tag=gizmodoamzn-20&ascsubtag=%5Breferrer%7Cwww.google.com%5Btype%7Clink%5BpostId%7C1461169632%5Basin%7CB001RLYOEE%5BauthorId%7C5856732741879800112\" target=\"_blank\">costs over $200\u003c/a> and has 150 watts and a two horsepower motor. If that's more power than is necessary for your juicing needs, there are plenty of lower-key juicing options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/processor.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/processor.jpg\" alt=\"The Oster FPSTFP4010 food processor may be the best bet for your money. Photo: Oster\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77557\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oster FPSTFP4010 food processor may be the best bet for your money. Photo: Oster\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Food Processor\u003c/strong>: Of course, you can't juice all your food. Sometimes you need to process food (or cut or slice or dice). As mashing our food up has become more and more popular, food processors and juicers and blenders have flooded the market. It can be hard to know which will really do your processing well. According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2013/07/the-five-best-food-processors-from-our-tests-for-100-or-less/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Consumer Reports\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Oster-FPSTFP4010-4-Cup-Continuous-Processor/dp/B003A14M96\" target=\"_blank\">Oster FPSTFP4010\u003c/a> may be the best bet for your money at just $34. Though it's small, it is mighty. Or, if you really want to splurge, the top-rated \u003ca href=\"http://consumerreports.org/cro/appliances/kitchen-appliances/food-processors-choppers/food-processor-ratings/models/overview/breville-bfp800xl-a-99049067.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Breville BFP800XL/A\u003c/a> will do anything you want -- and will cost you $400.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 185px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/ice-45.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/ice-45.jpg\" alt=\"The Cuisinart Mix It In Soft Serve Ice Cream Maker. Photo: Cuisinart\" width=\"185\" height=\"265\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77558\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cuisinart Mix It In Soft Serve Ice Cream Maker. Photo: Cuisinart\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ice Cream Maker\u003c/strong>: OK, so no one \u003cem>needs \u003c/em>an ice cream maker. But, who doesn't want one? The problem with ice cream makers, though, is the ice cream never turns out quite as good as you hope. Many the hopeful ice cream maker has been scarred by memories of trying to churn and churn the ice cream as a child. Fortunately, ice cream technology has come a long way since then. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cuisinart.com/products/ice_cream/ice-45.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cuisinart Mix It In Soft Serve Ice Cream Maker\u003c/a> makes close to restaurant-level soft serve and lets you mix in toppings like sprinkles. Just combine that with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Breville-BPI640XL-Personal-Pie-Maker/dp/B004RF7QFQ/?tag=gizmodoamzn-20&ascsubtag=%5Breferrer%7Cwww.google.com%5Btype%7Clink%5BpostId%7C1461169632%5Basin%7CB004RF7QFQ%5BauthorId%7C5856732741879800112\" target=\"_blank\">Breville Personal Pie Maker\u003c/a> and you'll never go hungry again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 330px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/isrenderingengine.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/isrenderingengine.png\" alt=\"The Wusthof classic carving knife. Photo: Wusthof\" width=\"330\" height=\"47\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77564\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wusthof classic carving knife. Photo: Wusthof\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carbon Knives\u003c/strong>: The carbon v. steel debate may be controversial, but it's worth testing different kinds of knives. Stainless steel can be less likely to rust, but the carbon steel knives often provide a sharper edge -- as long as you maintain them regularly. For most of us it doesn't make much difference what kind of knife we use, but for the aspiring home chef at least one carbon knife is worth having. Some of the best include \u003ca href=\"http://shun.kaiusaltd.com/knives\" target=\"_blank\">Shun knives\u003c/a> made in Japan from 16 layers of a high-carbon stainless steel allow, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wusthof.com/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-75/52_view-121/categories-121/country-usa/wlang-2/\" target=\"_blank\">Wusthof\u003c/a> wide professional chef's knives made in Germany, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Sabatier-Forged-Carbon-Steel-France/dp/B007NZQSD8\" target=\"_blank\">Sabatier French knives\u003c/a> made by a 150-year-old company from 100% carbon steel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77561\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 299px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/stemgem.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/stemgem.jpg\" alt=\"The StemGem removes the stem from strawberries. Photo: Chef'n\" width=\"299\" height=\"289\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77561\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The StemGem removes the stem from strawberries. Photo: Chef'n\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peelers and Corers and Slicers\u003c/strong>: There's an entire sub-market in the kitchen tool industry of gadgets to de-core and un-stem and slice your vegetables and fruit. Some of them are pretty straight-forward like \u003ca href=\"http://www.discountjuicers.com/cucumberpeeler.html\" target=\"_blank\">the cucumber and zucchini peelers\u003c/a>. Some of them are very specific like \u003ca href=\"http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/four-in-one-avocado-tool/\" target=\"_blank\">the four-in-one avocado tool\u003c/a>. Then, there's the \u003ca href=\"http://www.chefn.com/Product.aspx?id=162\" target=\"_blank\">StemGem\u003c/a> -- a strawberry-shaped tool thats sole purpose is to cleanly remove the stems from strawberries. 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Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Eliza Barclay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/06/272514744/food-industry-groups-say-theyll-label-gmos-on-their-terms\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (2/6/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember those ballot initiatives in \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/11/07/164595923/california-rejects-genetically-modified-food-labels-supporters-vow-to-fight-on\">California\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/11/07/washington-state-says-no-to-gmo-labels/\">Washington\u003c/a> that aimed to get food companies to label products containing genetically modified ingredients?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They failed, in 2012 and 2013, respectively, thanks in part to the tens of millions of dollars lavished by the Grocery Manufacturers Association and other food industry groups on campaigns to convince consumers that labeling would make their food more expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the food industry won those battles, it's not exactly eager to rehash them elsewhere. So now the GMA — along with a \u003ca href=\"http://coalitionforsafeaffordablefood.org/news/2014/02/05/broad-based-coalition-launched-advocate-congressional-action-federal-gmo-labeling\">new coalition\u003c/a> of 28 groups representing farmers, seed companies and other food producers who rely heavily on GMO ingredients — is changing its tune a bit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an open acknowledgement that many consumers are annoyed that GMO ingredients aren't labeled, a coalition announced Thursday that it supports labeling — sort of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The [Food and Drug Association] up to now has said that GMOs are safe, but we also recognize that some consumers want more information and companies might want to include GMO information, so we are asking the FDA to outline labeling standards companies can use voluntarily,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.gmaonline.org/about/board-councils-committees/gma-leadership/\">Pamela Bailey\u003c/a>, president and CEO of the Grocery Manufacturers Association, told reporters in a teleconference Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move represents the industry's attempt to try to preempt any future state ballot initiatives, which could turn as messy and costly as what played out in California and Washington. And the coalition admitted as much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The results of the enormous misinformation put out there, particularly in California and Washington, really compelled us and 28 other groups to step forward and say, 'Enough is enough. We need some help,' \" \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncfc.org/about-ncfc/ncfc-staff\">Chuck Connor\u003c/a>, president of the National Council of Farm Cooperatives, another group in the coalition, said during the teleconference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Help\" as defined by the groups is not only a voluntary federal labeling standard, but also a bill that would bar all states from trying to mandate labels at all. In other words, the industry groups would like to crush any possibility of mandatory labels, and instead create a more relaxed system in which companies that want to label can, and companies that don't will never have to. (You can check out the \u003ca href=\"http://images.politico.com/global/2014/01/07/scaned_pdf1.html\" target=\"_blank\">discussion draft\u003c/a> of GMA's proposed bill, which was \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/gmo-labeling-bill-101853.html\">leaked\u003c/a> to POLITICO in January.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The voluntary federal standard that the industry groups are proposing has been in the works for several months. And they say they've been building support in Congress for it, though they wouldn't divulge any details on when such a bill might be introduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition is also proposing that before new GMO products go on the market, companies be required to submit safety data to be reviewed and approved by the FDA. Currently, that practice is optional, and thus, critics say, relatively useless from a consumer perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the significance of the industry's proposal of a voluntary federal standard for labeling, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ewg.org/node/326\">Jason Rano\u003c/a>, director of government affairs at the Environmental Working Group, says it won't do much to combat consumer confusion around GMOs, which is the core issue at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we really need is for FDA to require labeling of genetically engineered food and ingredients, so that consumers can understand the universe and make informed choices. We need to provide consumers with the information we know they crave,\" Rano tells The Salt. \"This does not do that. It maintains the current status quo of a voluntary system that hasn't worked.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the proposal to make the pre-market review of safety data on GMO products mandatory, Rano is similarly unimpressed. Even if companies have to submit such data, he notes, this extra layer of regulation is less important than a label that clearly tells consumers what's in the product. \"So it doesn't make a big difference,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rano says he hopes that in the absence of a federal labeling requirement, state initiatives and bills pushing mandatory labeling will continue to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The industry meanwhile, maintains its long-standing position that it would be crippled by costs if states do continue to pass labeling laws one by one. (So far, Maine and Connecticut have passed bills. But neither bill will take effect unless other states pass similar measures, too.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Ray Gaesser, president of the American Soybean Association, his members would see a 15 to 30 percent increase in costs to grow, keep track, store and deliver product that had to be labeled and meet different standards in different states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaesser said a mandatory federal standard would be far easier for producers to adhere to than a patchwork set of regulations concocted by individual states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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