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Photo: Nati Harnik/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/17/221376803/american-farmers-say-they-feed-the-world-but-do-they\">Morning Edition\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/09/20130917_me_09.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/17/221376803/american-farmers-say-they-feed-the-world-but-do-they\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (9/17/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When critics of industrial agriculture complain that today's food production is too big and too dependent on pesticides, that it damages the environment and delivers mediocre food, there's a line that farmers offer in response: We're feeding the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's high-tech agriculture's claim to the moral high ground. Farmers say they farm the way they do to produce food as efficiently as possible to feed the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.foodintegrity.org/about-us/leadership\">Charlie Arnot\u003c/a>, a former public relations executive for food and farming companies, now CEO of the Center for Food Integrity, says it's more than just a debating point. \"U.S. farmers have a tremendous sense of pride in the fact that they've been able to help feed the world,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That phrase showed up, for instance, a few weeks ago, at a big farm convention in Decatur, Ill. The seed and chemical company DuPont set up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.626853994021873.1073741836.138324096208201&type=1\">wall\u003c/a> with a question printed at the top in big capital letters: \"How are you making a difference to feed the world?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company invited people to answer that question, and thousands of them did. They wrote things like \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=626854237355182&set=a.626853994021873.1073741836.138324096208201&type=3&theater\">raising cattle\u003c/a>,\" \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=626854367355169&set=a.626853994021873.1073741836.138324096208201&type=3&theater\">growing corn and beans\u003c/a>,\" \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=626854367355169&set=a.626853994021873.1073741836.138324096208201&type=3&theater\">plant as much as possible\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXcVYp88-1Q\">Kip Tom\u003c/a>, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.tomfarms.com/\">grows\u003c/a> corn and soybeans on thousands of acres of Indiana farmland, says he's very aware of the fact that the world has more and more people, demanding more food. Yet there are fewer and fewer farmers, \"and it's the duty of those of us who are left in the business, us family farmers, to help feed that world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means growing more food per acre, he says, which requires new and better technology: genetically engineered seed, for instance, or \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/07/09/as-biotech-seed-falters-insecticide-use-surges-in-corn-belt/\">pesticides\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this is why the words \"feed the world\" grate on the nerves of people who believe that large-scale, technology-driven agriculture is bad for the environment and often bad for people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margaret Mellon, a scientist with the environmental advocacy group Union of Concerned Scientists, recently wrote an \u003ca href=\"http://blog.ucsusa.org/lets-drop-feed-the-world-a-plea-to-move-beyond-an-unhelpful-phrase-229\">essay\u003c/a> in which she confessed to developing an allergy to that phrase. \"If there's a controversy, the show-stopper is supposed to be, 'We have to use pesticides, or we won't be able to feed the world!'\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mellon says it's time to set that idea aside. It doesn't answer the concerns that people have about modern agriculture — and it's not even true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American-style farming doesn't really grow food for hungry people, she says. Forty percent of the biggest crop — corn — goes into fuel for cars. Most of the second-biggest crop — soybeans — is fed to animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing more grain isn't the solution to hunger anyway, she says. If you're really trying to solve that problem, there's a long list of other steps that are much more important. \"We need to empower women; we need to raise incomes; we need infrastructure in the developing world; we need the ability to get food to market without spoiling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seemed that this dispute needed a referee. So I called \u003ca href=\"http://dyson.cornell.edu/faculty_sites/cbb2/\">Christopher Barrett\u003c/a>, an economist at Cornell University who studies international agriculture and poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're both right,\" he said, chuckling. \"Sometimes the opposite of a truth isn't a falsehood, but another truth, right?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's true, he says, that bigger harvests in the U.S. tend to make food more affordable around the world, and \"lower food prices are a good thing for poor people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, Chinese pigs are growing fat on cheap soybean meal grown by farmers in the U.S. and Brazil, and that's one reason why hundreds of millions of people in China \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2011/12/30/144426549/in-china-finding-a-new-way-to-eat-in-times-of-plenty\">are eating much better\u003c/a> than a generation ago. They can afford to buy pork. So American farmers who grow soybeans are justified in saying that they help feed the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Margaret Mellon is right, too, Barrett says. The big crops that American farmers send abroad don't provide the vitamins and minerals that billions of people need most. So if the U.S. exports lots of corn, driving down the cost of corn meal, \"it induces poor families to buy lots of corn meal, and to buy less in the way of leafy green vegetables, or milk,\" that have the key nutrients. In this case, you're feeding the world, but not solving the nutrition problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arnot, from the Center for Food Integrity, recently did a survey, asking consumers whether they think the U.S. even has a responsibility to provide food to the rest of the world. Only 13 percent of these consumers strongly agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In focus groups, many people said that if feeding the world means more industrial-scale farming, they're not comfortable with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not a message farmers like to hear. \"It is a real sense of frustration for farmers that 'feeding the world' is no longer a message that resonates with the American public,\" Arnot says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tells farm groups that they'll have to find another message. They'll need to show that the way they grow food is consistent with the values of American consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That phrase showed up, for instance, a few weeks ago, at a big farm convention in Decatur, Ill. The seed and chemical company DuPont set up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.626853994021873.1073741836.138324096208201&type=1\">wall\u003c/a> with a question printed at the top in big capital letters: \"How are you making a difference to feed the world?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company invited people to answer that question, and thousands of them did. They wrote things like \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=626854237355182&set=a.626853994021873.1073741836.138324096208201&type=3&theater\">raising cattle\u003c/a>,\" \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=626854367355169&set=a.626853994021873.1073741836.138324096208201&type=3&theater\">growing corn and beans\u003c/a>,\" \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=626854367355169&set=a.626853994021873.1073741836.138324096208201&type=3&theater\">plant as much as possible\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXcVYp88-1Q\">Kip Tom\u003c/a>, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.tomfarms.com/\">grows\u003c/a> corn and soybeans on thousands of acres of Indiana farmland, says he's very aware of the fact that the world has more and more people, demanding more food. Yet there are fewer and fewer farmers, \"and it's the duty of those of us who are left in the business, us family farmers, to help feed that world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means growing more food per acre, he says, which requires new and better technology: genetically engineered seed, for instance, or \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/07/09/as-biotech-seed-falters-insecticide-use-surges-in-corn-belt/\">pesticides\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this is why the words \"feed the world\" grate on the nerves of people who believe that large-scale, technology-driven agriculture is bad for the environment and often bad for people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margaret Mellon, a scientist with the environmental advocacy group Union of Concerned Scientists, recently wrote an \u003ca href=\"http://blog.ucsusa.org/lets-drop-feed-the-world-a-plea-to-move-beyond-an-unhelpful-phrase-229\">essay\u003c/a> in which she confessed to developing an allergy to that phrase. \"If there's a controversy, the show-stopper is supposed to be, 'We have to use pesticides, or we won't be able to feed the world!'\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mellon says it's time to set that idea aside. It doesn't answer the concerns that people have about modern agriculture — and it's not even true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American-style farming doesn't really grow food for hungry people, she says. Forty percent of the biggest crop — corn — goes into fuel for cars. Most of the second-biggest crop — soybeans — is fed to animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing more grain isn't the solution to hunger anyway, she says. If you're really trying to solve that problem, there's a long list of other steps that are much more important. \"We need to empower women; we need to raise incomes; we need infrastructure in the developing world; we need the ability to get food to market without spoiling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seemed that this dispute needed a referee. 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So it's getting a new logo: Drink Up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_70097\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/michelle-obamadrink-up.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/michelle-obamadrink-up.jpg\" alt=\"The Drink Up logo will appear on bottled water, outdoor taps and reusable bottles. Image: Partnership for a Healthier America \" width=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70097\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Drink Up logo will appear on bottled water, outdoor taps and reusable bottles. Image: Partnership for a Healthier America\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a high school in Watertown, Wis., the first lady said Thursday that drinking a little more H20 is an easy step to improve your health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Drink just one more glass of water a day, and you can make a real difference for your health, your energy and the way you feel,\" the first lady \u003ca href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/12/first-lady-michelle-obama-ask-everyone-drink-more-water\">said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Partnership for a Healthier America has brought several industry supporters to the new logo and promotion initiative. For instance, Brita will feature the Drink Up logo on packages of its reusable filtering bottles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And many players in the beverage industry are taking part, too. Bottled water is a lucrative and growing business — with $11.3 billion in sales in the U.S. in 2012. And companies such as Nestle, Deer Park and Poland Springs plan to integrate the Drink Up logo on packaging and delivery trucks. They also plan to talk up the message using social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relying on the private sector to sell us water, however, is not everyone's idea of a good way to hydrate. As we \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/12/146692656/battling-the-bottle-students-and-industry-face-off-over-water\">reported\u003c/a> in 2012, more than 20 colleges and universities have complete or partial bans on bottled water because of environmental and health concerns about the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.globaltap.org/\">GlobalTap\u003c/a> is another supporter in the Partnership for a Healthier America initiative. This group is installing a new generation of drinking fountains — or taps, to be more accurate — in public spaces and schools around the world. 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Our sad little scarecrow has become a happy little street food vendor, selling fresh tacos out of red plastic baskets that look quite a lot like what you'll get at the Mexican chain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chipotle's gleaming, super-efficient stores and revenue of over $800 million are more Big Food than taco stand. But the chain seems to want to show solidarity with the emerging class of entrepreneurial artisans making food from scratch. We're the good guys, fighting the bad guys, it whispers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film, created in partnership with Academy Award-winning \u003ca href=\"http://moonbotstudios.com/the-scarecrow-chipotle-mexican-grill/\">Moonbot Studios\u003c/a>, is meant \"to help people better understand the difference between processed food and the real thing,\" says Mark Crumpacker, chief marketing officer at Chipotle, in a \u003ca href=\"http://ir.chipotle.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=194775&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1854278&highlight=\">statement.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also a teaser for the game, which is available for free on iPhone and iPad, and is all about taking down Crow Foods. 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But when they're no good to me, what are you going to do with them? We don't want to take 'em out back and shoot 'em,\" he says. \"They may just as well be slaughtered, and get some use out of them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meat for horse eaters, money for horse owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until they were shut down, domestic slaughterhouses provided a ready market for old, hobbled or unruly steeds. It made horses more valuable. Beechy says shutting it down has spurred a glut of unwanted and neglected animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a lot of horses out there in the pasture, hurting. Some of them linger three or four years, suffer every day. And the slaughter's the best place for them,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Domestic slaughter, he means. The long hauls to slaughter plants in Canada and Mexico can brutalize the animals, and burn up the seller's profit. 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Food waste is a problem in rich countries and poor countries alike, and it's happening throughout the supply chain — from the farm to the truck to the warehouse to the store to your refrigerator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, as \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2011/10/07/141123243/how-that-food-you-throw-out-is-linked-to-global-warming\">we've reported\u003c/a> before, not only are we missing the opportunity to feed hungry people with this food, we're also exacerbating the impact of food production on the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3347e/i3347e.pdf\">report\u003c/a> from the Food and Agriculture Organization out Wednesday brings these impacts into sharper focus. And the message is clear: All that food we're allowing to rot is creating billions of tons of greenhouse gases, and costing us precious \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/06/06/food-waste-water-world-resources-institute-agriculture/\">water\u003c/a> and land. According to the FAO, each year, we lose a volume of water equivalent to the annual flow of Russia's Volga River in all the food we throw away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To figure out the world's food waste hotspots, the FAO created pairs of regions and commodities. When they crunched the numbers, they found that six out of the 10 pairs with the highest waste were in Asia. At the top was vegetables from industrialized Asia (China, Japan and Korea), followed by cereals (including rice) from those three countries. In all, six out of 10 pairs were Asian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That Asian countries are wasting more vegetables than anywhere else is not a huge surprise — 50 percent of the world's vegetable production and consumption is in China, Japan and Korea. Vegetables, though, have a lower carbon footprint than cereals or meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FAO is especially concerned about all the rice wasted in Asia and the meat wasted in developed countries. Cereals, including rice, have the highest carbon impact of any commodity, even beating out meat. That's mostly because rice crops emit methane as organic matter decomposes in flooded paddies. Rice also requires large quantities of land and water, which means that the high levels of waste are particularly damaging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FAO points a finger at the U.S., Europe and Latin America for wasting meat. The three regions account for 80 percent of all meat wasted, and that's nothing to be proud of, given the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/06/27/155527365/visualizing-a-nation-of-meat-eaters\">climate, water and land impacts\u003c/a> of raising livestock for food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The food security implications of the world's food waste problem are both devastating and encouraging, says the FAO. They calculated in 2012 that by 2050, we need to increase food production by 60 percent in order to feed everyone. But, they argue, if we made better use of the food we already grow, and didn't waste one third of it, we wouldn't need to boost production so much in the future to meet rising demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we reduce food waste and loss, we have more food available, without the need to produce more and putting less pressure on natural resources,\" said Jose Graziano da Silva, director-general of the FAO, at a Wednesday press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmers and others working in the food system are also losing big time with to the tune of $750 billion a year. And that number excludes fish and seafood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why is all the food waste occurring? In the developing world, much of the onus falls on the people involved with getting the food to market after it's been harvested. In richer countries, consumers share the burden with farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FAO notes that consumers in rich countries regularly buy more food than they can eat. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_69643\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1120px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/chickennuggets_wide-4d2a9c68f23ae14312ec6afb9a0d300eed6d8fe9-s40-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/chickennuggets_wide-4d2a9c68f23ae14312ec6afb9a0d300eed6d8fe9-s40-c85.jpg\" alt=\"Chicken nuggets. Photo: iStockphoto\" width=\"1120\" height=\"629\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69643\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicken nuggets. 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Nor will consumers eating chicken noodle soup from a can or chicken nuggets in a fast-food restaurant know if the chicken came from Chinese processing plants.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a pretty disturbing thought for anyone who's followed the slew of stories regarding food safety failures in China in recent years. As we've \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/09/181900858/rat-mutton-and-bird-flu-strange-days-for-meat-eaters-in-shanghai\">previously reported\u003c/a> on The Salt, this year alone, thousands of dead pigs turned up in the waters of Shanghai, rat meat was passed off as mutton and — perhaps most disconcerting for U.S. consumers — there was an outbreak of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=176912114\">H7N9 bird flu virus\u003c/a> among live fowl in fresh meat markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's more, critics fear that the changes could eventually open the floodgates for a whole slew of chicken products from China. As the industry publication \u003ca href=\"http://www.worldpoultry.net/Broilers/Markets--Trade/2013/9/China-given-green-light-to-export-poultry-to-US-1351550W/\">World Poultry\u003c/a> notes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"It is thought ... that the government would eventually expand the rules, so that chickens and turkeys bred in China could end up in the American market. Experts suggest that this could be the first step towards allowing China to export its own domestic chickens to the U.S.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The USDA's decision comes with a backdrop of long-running trade disputes over meat between the U.S. and China. In a nutshell: China banned U.S. beef exports in 2003 after a case of mad cow disease turned up in a Washington state cow. Then, when the bird flu virus broke out widely among Asian bird flocks in 2004, the U.S. blocked imports of Chinese poultry. China challenged that decision in front of the World Trade Organization, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/cases_e/ds392_e.htm\">ruled\u003c/a> in China's favor in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, chicken lovers, brace yourselves: There's more. A report suggests chicken inspections here in the U.S. might be poised to take a turn for the worse. The Government Accountability Office \u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/660/657144.pdf\">said\u003c/a> this week it has serious \"questions about the validity\" of the new procedures for inspecting poultry across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basically, these changes would replace many USDA inspectors on chicken processing lines with employees from the poultry companies themselves. The USDA has been piloting the new procedures, which will save money and significantly speed up processing lines, in 29 chicken plants. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_69395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1120px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/catpoop-coffee-civet.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/catpoop-coffee-civet.jpg\" alt=\"A civet cat eats red coffee cherries at a farm in Bondowoso, Indonesia. Despite their name, civets are more closely related to meerkats and mongooses than cats. Photo: Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images\" width=\"1120\" height=\"629\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69395\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A civet cat eats red coffee cherries at a farm in Bondowoso, Indonesia. Despite their name, civets are more closely related to meerkats and mongooses than cats. Photo: Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Michaeleen Doucleff, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/02/218232266/is-your-pricey-cup-of-cat-poop-coffee-fake-there-s-a-test-for-that\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (9/3/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From gross to gourmet. That pretty much sums up civet poop coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_69387\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/71893965-763a1d6c993bedf4eaef21680d56823b2ebdad1c.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/71893965-763a1d6c993bedf4eaef21680d56823b2ebdad1c.jpg\" alt=\"Civet feces are collected and cleaned for the beans, which are naturally fermented during digestion. Photo: AFP/AFP/Getty Images \" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69387\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Civet feces are collected and cleaned for the beans, which are naturally fermented during digestion. Photo: AFP/AFP/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The beans are literally harvested from the feces of the tree-dwelling civet cat in Indonesia. The idea is that a trip through the animal's digestive tract partially ferments the beans and imparts a much-sought-after flavor to the coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exotic processing makes the coffee, called Kopi Luwak, exceptionally rare — and expensive: Think \u003ca href=\"http://www.deandeluca.com/kopi-luwak-gourmet-coffee.aspx\">$600 per pound\u003c/a>. And thus, experts suspect that much of what's sold as civet coffee on the market is actually either \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/world/asia/18civetcoffee.html?pagewanted=all\">fake\u003c/a> or made from low-grade beans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now biotechnologists in Japan have \u003ca href=\"http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf401819s?prevSearch=civet&searchHistoryKey=\">developed\u003c/a> the first chemical test to differentiate predigested coffee plucked from civet poop from regular beans picked from trees. In the process, the team also uncovered some clues about why Kopi Luwak is one of the most prized coffees in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's been a big debate here in the U.S. about whether the strange brew is worth the hefty price tag, not to mention the cruel conditions in which \u003ca href=\"http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/25/worlds-priciest-coffee-marred-by-abuse-allegations/\">civets are farmed\u003c/a> to produce it. \u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_69396\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/catpoop-coffee-compare.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/catpoop-coffee-compare.jpg\" alt=\"Much ado about nothing? Left: civet poop coffee beans. Right: a cup of java brewed from the stuff. Photo: Claire O'Neill/NPR\" width=\"300\" height=\"113\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69396\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Much ado about nothing? Left: civet poop coffee beans. Right: a cup of java brewed from the stuff. Photo: Claire O'Neill/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some professional coffee buyers call \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/09/20/161478954/heres-the-scoop-on-cat-poop-coffee\">Kopi Luwak\u003c/a> a gimmick and think its quality doesn't stand up to the hype. \"One of the strongest arguments against this coffee — and one that seems to meet a general consensus within the industry — is that it just tastes bad,\" Lily Kubota, of the Specialty Coffee Association of America, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scaa.org/chronicle/2011/11/02/the-value-of-a-good-story-or-how-to-turn-poop-into-gold/\">wrote\u003c/a> on the society's website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But biotechnologist \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/site/fukusakilabhomepageeng/english-page/members/staffs-and-students/putri-sastia-prama\">Sastia Prama Putri\u003c/a>, of Osaki University in Japan, couldn't disagree more. \"Kopi Luwak is exquisite,\" she tells The Salt. \"I normally can't drink black coffee. I need milk and sugar. But I can drink Kopi Luwak black.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Putri argues that counterfeit coffees are giving the civet poop coffee a bad name. So she and her colleagues in the lab of \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/site/fukusakilabhomepageeng/english-page/members/staffs-and-students/putri-sastia-prama\">Eiichiro Fukusaki\u003c/a> went searching for a chemical fingerprint that could uniquely identify the gut-processed beans. \"We want to be sure people around the world can try the real Kopi Luwak,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team ground up 21 different coffees from Indonesia, including seven Kopi Luwak varieties, and then measured the flavor compounds inside the beans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fans of civet coffee, like Putri, say it's smoother and less bitter than a regular cup of Joe. But her team's testing found that predigestion of the beans in the civet's gut didn't significantly alter the compounds that contribute to coffee's bitterness, like quinic acid, caffeine and caffeic acid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the predigestion \u003cem>did\u003c/em> change was the citric acid levels present in the ground-up beans. The gastric juices and enzymes in the civet's gut boosted citrus acid levels twofold, Putri says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By measuring the citric acid concentration, together with that of malic acid and the ratio of two other compounds (pyroglutamic acid and inositol for all your flavor buffs), the team could successfully separate the real McCoy coffee from the fakes. They \u003ca href=\"http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf401819s?prevSearch=civet&searchHistoryKey=\">reported\u003c/a> their findings in the \u003cem>Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So could a boost in citrus acid be the secret behind Kopi Luwak's appeal? Perhaps, says coffee buyer Mark Overly, who runs \u003ca href=\"http://kaladicoffee.com/\">Kaladi Coffee Roasters\u003c/a> in Denver, Colo., and blogs at \u003ca href=\"http://kaladicoffee.blogspot.com/\">The Coffee Heretic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Citric acid is highly prized in coffee,\" Overly says. \"It has a nice lemony quality. It brightens a cup of coffee and makes it more lively — much like with a good glass of orange juice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, he says, citric acid is an indicator that the beans are fresh and clean. \"Having more of it in the civet coffee seems counter to what I thought sitting around in the cat's digestive tract would do,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But still, the extra acid doesn't change Overly's mind about the civet poop coffee: He refuses to touch the stuff. \"I won't taste it. I won't put it in my roaster,\" he says adamantly. \"It goes against my philosophy about having clean coffee\" — by which he means the unadulterated flavor of pure coffee beans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he's never tried civet poop coffee, Overly says he was turned off by the thought of it — or really, the stench of it — 20 years ago. \"Back in 1993, I helped an Indonesian farmer transport some of the civet coffee, and I remember the reek that came off the bags of beans,\" he says. \"Even after the beans were cleaned, they had a wretched smell. I remember thinking, 'People drink this? Are you kidding me?' \" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_69395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1120px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/catpoop-coffee-civet.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/catpoop-coffee-civet.jpg\" alt=\"A civet cat eats red coffee cherries at a farm in Bondowoso, Indonesia. Despite their name, civets are more closely related to meerkats and mongooses than cats. Photo: Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images\" width=\"1120\" height=\"629\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69395\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A civet cat eats red coffee cherries at a farm in Bondowoso, Indonesia. Despite their name, civets are more closely related to meerkats and mongooses than cats. Photo: Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Michaeleen Doucleff, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/02/218232266/is-your-pricey-cup-of-cat-poop-coffee-fake-there-s-a-test-for-that\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (9/3/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From gross to gourmet. That pretty much sums up civet poop coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_69387\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/71893965-763a1d6c993bedf4eaef21680d56823b2ebdad1c.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/71893965-763a1d6c993bedf4eaef21680d56823b2ebdad1c.jpg\" alt=\"Civet feces are collected and cleaned for the beans, which are naturally fermented during digestion. Photo: AFP/AFP/Getty Images \" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69387\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Civet feces are collected and cleaned for the beans, which are naturally fermented during digestion. Photo: AFP/AFP/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The beans are literally harvested from the feces of the tree-dwelling civet cat in Indonesia. The idea is that a trip through the animal's digestive tract partially ferments the beans and imparts a much-sought-after flavor to the coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exotic processing makes the coffee, called Kopi Luwak, exceptionally rare — and expensive: Think \u003ca href=\"http://www.deandeluca.com/kopi-luwak-gourmet-coffee.aspx\">$600 per pound\u003c/a>. And thus, experts suspect that much of what's sold as civet coffee on the market is actually either \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/world/asia/18civetcoffee.html?pagewanted=all\">fake\u003c/a> or made from low-grade beans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now biotechnologists in Japan have \u003ca href=\"http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf401819s?prevSearch=civet&searchHistoryKey=\">developed\u003c/a> the first chemical test to differentiate predigested coffee plucked from civet poop from regular beans picked from trees. In the process, the team also uncovered some clues about why Kopi Luwak is one of the most prized coffees in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's been a big debate here in the U.S. about whether the strange brew is worth the hefty price tag, not to mention the cruel conditions in which \u003ca href=\"http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/25/worlds-priciest-coffee-marred-by-abuse-allegations/\">civets are farmed\u003c/a> to produce it. \u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_69396\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/catpoop-coffee-compare.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/catpoop-coffee-compare.jpg\" alt=\"Much ado about nothing? Left: civet poop coffee beans. Right: a cup of java brewed from the stuff. Photo: Claire O'Neill/NPR\" width=\"300\" height=\"113\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69396\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Much ado about nothing? Left: civet poop coffee beans. Right: a cup of java brewed from the stuff. Photo: Claire O'Neill/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some professional coffee buyers call \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/09/20/161478954/heres-the-scoop-on-cat-poop-coffee\">Kopi Luwak\u003c/a> a gimmick and think its quality doesn't stand up to the hype. \"One of the strongest arguments against this coffee — and one that seems to meet a general consensus within the industry — is that it just tastes bad,\" Lily Kubota, of the Specialty Coffee Association of America, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scaa.org/chronicle/2011/11/02/the-value-of-a-good-story-or-how-to-turn-poop-into-gold/\">wrote\u003c/a> on the society's website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But biotechnologist \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/site/fukusakilabhomepageeng/english-page/members/staffs-and-students/putri-sastia-prama\">Sastia Prama Putri\u003c/a>, of Osaki University in Japan, couldn't disagree more. \"Kopi Luwak is exquisite,\" she tells The Salt. \"I normally can't drink black coffee. I need milk and sugar. But I can drink Kopi Luwak black.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Putri argues that counterfeit coffees are giving the civet poop coffee a bad name. So she and her colleagues in the lab of \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/site/fukusakilabhomepageeng/english-page/members/staffs-and-students/putri-sastia-prama\">Eiichiro Fukusaki\u003c/a> went searching for a chemical fingerprint that could uniquely identify the gut-processed beans. \"We want to be sure people around the world can try the real Kopi Luwak,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team ground up 21 different coffees from Indonesia, including seven Kopi Luwak varieties, and then measured the flavor compounds inside the beans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fans of civet coffee, like Putri, say it's smoother and less bitter than a regular cup of Joe. But her team's testing found that predigestion of the beans in the civet's gut didn't significantly alter the compounds that contribute to coffee's bitterness, like quinic acid, caffeine and caffeic acid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the predigestion \u003cem>did\u003c/em> change was the citric acid levels present in the ground-up beans. The gastric juices and enzymes in the civet's gut boosted citrus acid levels twofold, Putri says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By measuring the citric acid concentration, together with that of malic acid and the ratio of two other compounds (pyroglutamic acid and inositol for all your flavor buffs), the team could successfully separate the real McCoy coffee from the fakes. They \u003ca href=\"http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf401819s?prevSearch=civet&searchHistoryKey=\">reported\u003c/a> their findings in the \u003cem>Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So could a boost in citrus acid be the secret behind Kopi Luwak's appeal? Perhaps, says coffee buyer Mark Overly, who runs \u003ca href=\"http://kaladicoffee.com/\">Kaladi Coffee Roasters\u003c/a> in Denver, Colo., and blogs at \u003ca href=\"http://kaladicoffee.blogspot.com/\">The Coffee Heretic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Citric acid is highly prized in coffee,\" Overly says. \"It has a nice lemony quality. It brightens a cup of coffee and makes it more lively — much like with a good glass of orange juice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, he says, citric acid is an indicator that the beans are fresh and clean. \"Having more of it in the civet coffee seems counter to what I thought sitting around in the cat's digestive tract would do,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But still, the extra acid doesn't change Overly's mind about the civet poop coffee: He refuses to touch the stuff. \"I won't taste it. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_69378\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 624px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/thai-fishing.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-69378\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/thai-fishing.jpg\" alt='Migrant workers from Myanmar return to a trawler after unloading fish following a fishing trip in the Gulf of Thailand in Samut Sakhon province Tuesday. A new report details \"deceptive and coercive\" labor practices in the Thai fishing sector, which relies heavily on workers from Cambodia and Myanmar, also known as Burma. Photo: Sakchai Lalit/AP' width=\"624\" height=\"350\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrant workers from Myanmar return to a trawler after unloading fish following a fishing trip in the Gulf of Thailand in Samut Sakhon province Tuesday. A new report details \"deceptive and coercive\" labor practices in the Thai fishing sector, which relies heavily on workers from Cambodia and Myanmar, also known as Burma. Photo: Sakchai Lalit/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Krishnadev Calamur, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2013/09/03/218558466/thai-fishing-sector-among-worlds-largest-cited-for-abuses\">Parallels at NPR Food\u003c/a> (9/3/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you eat fish on a regular basis, chances are some of it is coming from Thailand. The Asian country is the world's No. 3 exporter of seafood (after China and Norway), and the U.S. is its top destination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Thai fishing industry has grown dramatically, and it is now coming under increased scrutiny. A new report details \"deceptive and coercive labor practices, and even forced labor and human trafficking within\" the Thai fishing sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegations are not new. An \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2012/06/19/155045295/confined-to-a-thai-fishing-boat-for-three-years\">NPR story\u003c/a> from June 2012 cited the example of one Cambodian who spent three years confined to a Thai fishing boat. A \u003cem>Global Post\u003c/em> series from last year chronicled what it called \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.globalpost.com/series/thailand-seafood-slavery\">seafood slavery\u003c/a>.\" And in May, the \u003ca href=\"http://ejfoundation.org/soldtotheseafilm\">Environmental Justice Foundation\u003c/a> said Thailand is doing little to prevent the abuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thailand's fishing industry relies heavily on migrant workers from Cambodia and Burma — many of them undocumented. The \u003ca href=\"http://goo.gl/1lRBmp\">new report\u003c/a>, jointly released Monday by the International Labor Organization and the Asian Research Center for Migration at Chulalongkorn University, is the largest-ever conducted on the subject, surveying about 600 people who work on Thai boats in national and international waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The rapid growth of the Thai fishing sector over the past decades has come to an end, with higher fuel costs and a significant decrease in the Catch Per Unit of Effort (CPUE) due to overfishing. This has led to dramatic changes in the structure of employment and working conditions within the sector. Fewer people, both Thai and migrants, are willing to work on board because of the working conditions and as such, unscrupulous brokers and employers will often provide misleading information, withhold payment, threaten violence and use other means to recruit and employ fishers. It can therefore be said that this labor shortage — estimated to be as high as 50,000 workers — is both a cause and an effect of the abusive labor practices that are seen in the fishing sector.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But it does note that \"a significant proportion of the sample did not appear to be in an exploitative situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the report increases pressure on the Thai government to better regulate the $7 billion fishing industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For four years in a row, the State Department put Thailand on its tier 2 watch list, the second-worst position, for failing to increase efforts to address human trafficking. 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Do I know where the shrimp is being caught or processed that is on my plate? ... And instead of it being somebody else's problem, how can I make it my problem? How can I actually do something about it?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar problems also exist in shrimp farms and processing plants in the country, as NPR's Eliza Barclay noted in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/06/20/why-slave-labor-still-plagues-the-global-food-system/\">The Salt\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_69265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1120px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/irate_joes.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/irate_joes.jpg\" alt=\""I bought the stuff at full retail. I own it," says Michael Hallatt, owner of the _irate Joe's grocery in Vancouver. His store faces a lawsuit from Trader Joe's for infringing on its trademark and possibly confusing customers. Photo:_irate Joe's\" width=\"1120\" height=\"628\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69265\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"I bought the stuff at full retail. I own it,\" says Michael Hallatt, owner of the _irate Joe's grocery in Vancouver. His store faces a lawsuit from Trader Joe's for infringing on its trademark and possibly confusing customers. Photo:_irate Joe's\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/14562108/bill-chappell\">Bill Chappell\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/30/217210915/bag-it-trader-joes-tells-pirate-grocer-in-canada\">The Two-Way at NPR Food\u003c/a> (8/30/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past year and a half, Mike Hallatt has been driving across the U.S.-Canada border and back, bringing loads of groceries back to Vancouver. There's no food shortage in Canada — but there's an absolute lack of Trader Joe's grocery stores, and that created an opening for an entrepreneur who doesn't mind making a long drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally called \u003ca href=\"http://www.piratejoes.ca/news/\">Pirate Joe's\u003c/a>, Hallatt's store serves a niche market: Canadians who wish Trader Joe's was in their country and who will pay a bit extra for triple ginger snaps and fanciful trail mixes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trader Joe's is not pleased. It \u003ca href=\"http://static.squarespace.com/static/51fc7d3ce4b05ae014fc86b2/t/51fca283e4b018cc0054fdb3/1375511171418/trader_joes_complaint.pdf\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> this summer, complaining that Pirate Joe's harms the grocer's brand by selling its products outside its control and confusing customers. In response, Hallatt changed the store's name to _irate Joe's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I bought the stuff at full retail. I own it,\" Hallatt says. \"I get to do with it whatever I want to, including reselling it to Canadians. My right to do this is unassailable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, he says, \"There is no confusion in the marketplace. Pirate Joe's, now _irate Joe's, is blatant and unambiguous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hallatt adds that he doesn't see the big chain, which is owned by the same German family that \u003ca href=\"http://freakonomics.com/2009/02/19/do-you-know-who-owns-trader-joes/\">owns the Aldi supermarkets\u003c/a>, as an enemy. And he says the company is damaging its own brand by pursuing him in court. Hallatt has spoken to numerous news outlets about the case, including NPR member stations in \u003ca href=\"http://www.piratejoes.ca/news/2013/8/27/kpcc-so-cal-public-radio-interview\">Southern California\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://nhpr.org/post/pirate-joe-why-trader-joes-wants-shut-him-down\">New Hampshire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would prefer Trader Joe's accept my long-standing offer to follow guidance on how they would like me to operate,\" Hallatt says in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for reselling Trader Joe's products, he says he's far from alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I discovered there are many people running resale businesses on eBay and Amazon,\" Hallatt says. \"The amount online resellers manage to mark up the prices is the stuff of legend among TJ's employees.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More intriguingly, he adds, \"There are three grocery stores reselling Trader Joe's products in the U.S. that I know of.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vancouver store's motto carved into its threshold reads, \"Better than nothing\" — with a trademark symbol identifying it as a protected slogan. It seems that the Canadians who crave Trader Joe's treats would agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Hallatt says, \"Business is brisk!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unique business model led us to get in touch with Hallatt. Below is a lightly edited version of his answers to our questions. Trader Joe's has not been speaking publicly about the active lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NPR: Will there be a hearing on Trader Joe's lawsuit soon?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hallatt: \"We filed a motion to dismiss a few weeks ago, they responded [last] Monday and \u003ca href=\"http://static.squarespace.com/static/51fc7d3ce4b05ae014fc86b2/t/5217fe8ae4b07c5692c3146c/1377304202570/Reply%20IFSO%20Motion%20to%20Dismiss.pdf\">we [responded]\u003c/a> to that. The court will take a look at it soon I hope. 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It's fantastic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Have you been told to leave Trader Joe's stores?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not formally from corporate. When the first squeeze came around the time of the cease and desist letter last year, it was the manager of the Bellingham [Wash.] store who apologetically asked me not to shop there anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm still OK if I'm shopping for myself or my family, although my cart gets looked over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I tell people who are 'helping' me shop not to clear out shelves but to shop like a typical shopper in there, stocking up. Get one or two of a set of items, bag them yourself and get out of there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you have to portion supplies out to several vehicles?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For too long it was just my Honda Element. The record was 98 bags of groceries. A few were on my lap. I've since up/downgraded to a '93 E-250 extended van. 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I feel they should either open a store up here or leave the free market to sort itself out. Requiring a 160-mile round trip across an international border to get their products is anything but neighborly.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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