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Photo: Abbie Fentress Swanson/Harvest Public Media\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/07/05/199095108/Whats-In-The-Water-Searching-Midwest-Streams-For-Crop-Runoff\">All Things Considered\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2013/07/20130705_atc_14.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.kbia.org/people/abbie-fentress-swanson\">Abbie Fentress Swanson\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/07/05/199095108/Whats-In-The-Water-Searching-Midwest-Streams-For-Crop-Runoff\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (7/5/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>America's hugely productive food system is one of its success stories. The nation will export a projected $139.5 billion in agricultural products this fiscal year alone. It's an industry that supports \"more than 1 million jobs,\" according to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But all that productivity has taken a toll on the environment, especially rivers and lakes: Agriculture is the nation's leading cause of impaired water quality, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://water.epa.gov/polwaste/nps/outreach/point1.cfm\">U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists want to get a better sense of how all that agricultural runoff is affecting water quality. So this summer, three dozen scientists from the EPA and U.S. Geological Survey are wading into some 100 streams, from Ohio to Nebraska. 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But in the current outbreak, there are slight variations in the virus among the people who have fallen ill. That suggests that the pomegranate may have become contaminated with sewage carrying the virus from more than one person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unsettling to think that a few people in Turkey could cause a serious disease \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/Outbreaks/2013/A1b-03-31/index.html\">outbreak\u003c/a> halfway around the world. It makes global food safety seem like a high-stakes version of the 1980s children's game \u003cem>Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the people who have fallen ill bought the organic frozen berry mix at Costco, a company renowned for its food safety efforts. Given that the U.S. gets 50 percent of its fresh fruit, 20 percent of its fresh vegetables and 80 percent of its seafood from other countries, are we doomed to more outbreaks like this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We called up \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/aboutfda/centersoffices/officeoffoods/ucm196721.htm\">Michael Taylor\u003c/a>, deputy commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine at the FDA, to find out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do think that the hepatitis A outbreak is a wonderful snapshot of the makeup of the global food system and the challenges it presents for food safety,\" Taylor told The Salt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It reflects the diversity of conditions in the scores and scores of countries involved,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64592\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/07/plate_pomegranates.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/07/plate_pomegranates-290x271.jpg\" alt=\"A 16th-century plate from what is now Iran, embellished with pomegranates. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, it appears that both companies have managed to complete this transition for sodas sold in the state of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a new analysis by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ceh.org/\">Center for Environmental Health\u003c/a> found that 10 of 10 samples of Pepsi products purchased nationwide during the month of June (in locations outside California) contained levels of 4-MEI that were about four to eight times higher than the safety thresholds set by California. The testing was conducted by Eurofins Analytical laboratory in Metairie, La.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, nine of the 10 samples of Coke products purchased in locations outside California contained little or no trace of 4-MEI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We applaud Coke,\" wrote \u003ca href=\"http://www.ceh.org/about-us/staff\">Michael Green\u003c/a>, executive director of the Center for Environmental Health, in a release announcing the findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Pepsi's delay is inexplicable,\" Green added. \"We urge the company to take swift action.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Pepsi spokesperson tells The Salt that sodas sold throughout the U.S. should complete the transition to the new caramel coloring by February 2014. The company says efforts are also underway to switch the color formulation for sodas distributed globally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The FDA and other regulatory agencies around the world, including the European Food Safety Authority and Health Canada, consider our caramel coloring safe for use in foods and beverages,\" Pepsi Co. wrote in an email to The Salt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, are the higher levels of 4-MEI found in sodas using the old formulation a threat to human health? Well, consider the dose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA issued a statement last year, before the formulation of caramel coloring was changed, stating that a consumer would have to drink more than 1,000 cans of soda a day to reach the doses that have been shown to lead to cancer in rodents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ameribev.org/\">American Beverage Association\u003c/a> wrote in a statement last year that \"the science simply does not show that 4-MEI in foods or beverages is a threat to human health.\" \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\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/cagefree.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/cagefree-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Cage-free chickens in Harold Sensenig's barn near Hershey, Pa., get to roam and perch on steel rods, but they don't go outside. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"size-large wp-image-64265\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cage-free chickens in Harold Sensenig's barn near Hershey, Pa., get to roam and perch on steel rods, but they don't go outside. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/06/27/195639341/what-the-rise-of-cage-free-eggs-means-for-chickens\">All Things Considered\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2013/06/20130627_atc_07.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/2013/06/27/195639341/what-the-rise-of-cage-free-eggs-means-for-chickens\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (6/27/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The typical life of an egg-laying chicken is beginning to change dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ninety percent of the eggs we eat come from chickens that live in long lines of wire cages, about eight birds to a cage. Animal welfare groups have long been \u003ca href=\"http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/confinement_farm/facts/battery_cages.html\">campaigning\u003c/a> against these cages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are succeeding, and this is where the change starts. In recent years, several big food companies have promised to switch to \"cage-free\" eggs. They include \u003ca href=\"http://www.unilever.com/sustainable-living/sustainablesourcing/eggs-dairy/\">Unilever\u003c/a>, which sells Hellmann's mayonnaise, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.aramark.com/PressRoom/PressReleases/cage-free-egg-commitment.aspx\">Aramark\u003c/a>, which supplies food to big companies, colleges and prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those promises set off a supply chain reaction. \"There weren't enough cage-free eggs for us to do Hellmann's Light mayonnaise, initially,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.linkedin.com/pub/douglas-balentine/0/635/6b1\">Doug Balentine\u003c/a>, director of nutrition and health for Unilever North America. \"It's going to take us about five years of working with egg suppliers so that we can convert all the egg farmers, just to supply the eggs for Hellmann's mayonnaise.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to a brand-new pair of chicken houses tucked into the rolling farmland near Hershey, Pa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside one of those houses, 18,000 chickens are milling around on the floor. Some are perched on metal bars. A few are madly pecking away at the plastic covers on my shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chickens just arrived here a few weeks ago. So did the farmer, a taciturn young man named Harold Sensenig, who grew up just down the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Been living here for about four weeks now. Moved in a week before the chickens came. Got married two weeks before that,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These chickens aren't free-range or organic; they don't go outside. But they do get to roam around inside the house, which makes them cage-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sensenig built this style of chicken house — and a bank financed it — on the strength of those promises by Unilever and Aramark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64266\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 270px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/cagefree1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/cagefree1.jpg\" alt=\"Harold Sensenig (left) is selling his cage-free eggs to Paul Sauder (right). Denny Williamson (center, with chicken) works with Powell's Feed Service, which supplies chickens to Sensenig's farm. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"270\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64266\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harold Sensenig (left) is selling his cage-free eggs to Paul Sauder (right). Denny Williamson (center, with chicken) works with Powell's Feed Service, which supplies chickens to Sensenig's farm. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sensenig has a deal with a local egg buyer, \u003ca href=\"http://www.saudereggs.com/\">Sauder's Eggs\u003c/a>, which is paying twice the going rate for cage-free eggs. Sauder Eggs, in turn, supplies those eggs to Unilever and Aramark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's the demand that's driving it,\" says Paul Sauder, who owns Sauder's Eggs. \"I mean, I wouldn't take the risk of paying double for these eggs, versus commodity eggs, if I didn't have the demand pushing on the other side.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, it's estimated that about 8 percent of all eggs come from cage-free houses. For Sauder's business, it's 10 or 12 percent, and growing every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's more expensive to produce eggs this way, Sauder says. You need more buildings for the same number of chickens, because you can't stack the birds on several levels in the same house. There's also more work involved — somebody has to walk through the chicken house collecting stray eggs that chickens laid on the ground, rather than in their enclosed nests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the industry, he says, is responding to \"the perception that cage-free is a better product than eggs from a conventional cage house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do you believe that?\" I ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sauder pauses. \"From a nutrition standpoint, the egg is the same,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet as Sauder stands amid the crowd of chickens, he does seem pleased. You're closer to the animals, he says, the way farmers were 50 years ago. You also get to see chickens acting more like chickens, dust-bathing or perching on long metal rods up near the ceiling. \"You come in here at nighttime, those things are all full up there, because birds migrate to the top perches. That's where they feel safest,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's still some argument, though, about whether that means the chickens are really better off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Michigan, scientists are carrying out a \u003ca href=\"http://www2.sustainableeggcoalition.org/research\">large-scale experiment\u003c/a> with three different full-scale chicken houses. One has chickens in traditional cages; one has so-called enriched cages that are bigger, and include nests and perches; and a third house is cage-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have over 300 cameras mounted within those systems to collect data,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.ans.msu.edu/people/dr_janice_swanson\">Janice Swanson\u003c/a>, from Michigan State University. She's one of the scientists in charge of the study, which is funded by a \u003ca href=\"http://www2.sustainableeggcoalition.org/\">consortium\u003c/a> of egg producers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swanson says they are measuring every aspect of each system: how clean the air is; how healthy the chickens are; how much it costs; how each system affects a chicken's welfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the third floor of Michigan State's animal sciences building, teams of students are carefully watching videotapes, counting how often the chickens do things like spread their wings or peck each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swanson says it's important to measure all of these things because there may be trade-offs between different goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, in cage-free systems, chicken litter builds up on the floor, so chickens scratch around and dust-bathe in their own waste. \"There are concerns about that, relative to egg safety,\" he says. \"Now, for the hen's behavioral repertoire, this is cool! We can get down and dust-bathe, and so on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experiment has been running for a year now, and the scientists have released some \u003ca href=\"http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/28b12022#/28b12022/12\">preliminary observations\u003c/a>. Here are just a few: Hens in cages were cleaner, but cage-free chickens kept more of their feathers. Cage-free hens may have had more freedom, but twice as many of them died during the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swanson says it's too early to draw any firm conclusions, though, because these observations are from just one production cycle. \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>Those promises set off a supply chain reaction. \"There weren't enough cage-free eggs for us to do Hellmann's Light mayonnaise, initially,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.linkedin.com/pub/douglas-balentine/0/635/6b1\">Doug Balentine\u003c/a>, director of nutrition and health for Unilever North America. \"It's going to take us about five years of working with egg suppliers so that we can convert all the egg farmers, just to supply the eggs for Hellmann's mayonnaise.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to a brand-new pair of chicken houses tucked into the rolling farmland near Hershey, Pa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside one of those houses, 18,000 chickens are milling around on the floor. Some are perched on metal bars. A few are madly pecking away at the plastic covers on my shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chickens just arrived here a few weeks ago. So did the farmer, a taciturn young man named Harold Sensenig, who grew up just down the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Been living here for about four weeks now. Moved in a week before the chickens came. Got married two weeks before that,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These chickens aren't free-range or organic; they don't go outside. But they do get to roam around inside the house, which makes them cage-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sensenig built this style of chicken house — and a bank financed it — on the strength of those promises by Unilever and Aramark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64266\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 270px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/cagefree1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/cagefree1.jpg\" alt=\"Harold Sensenig (left) is selling his cage-free eggs to Paul Sauder (right). Denny Williamson (center, with chicken) works with Powell's Feed Service, which supplies chickens to Sensenig's farm. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"270\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64266\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harold Sensenig (left) is selling his cage-free eggs to Paul Sauder (right). Denny Williamson (center, with chicken) works with Powell's Feed Service, which supplies chickens to Sensenig's farm. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sensenig has a deal with a local egg buyer, \u003ca href=\"http://www.saudereggs.com/\">Sauder's Eggs\u003c/a>, which is paying twice the going rate for cage-free eggs. Sauder Eggs, in turn, supplies those eggs to Unilever and Aramark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's the demand that's driving it,\" says Paul Sauder, who owns Sauder's Eggs. \"I mean, I wouldn't take the risk of paying double for these eggs, versus commodity eggs, if I didn't have the demand pushing on the other side.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, it's estimated that about 8 percent of all eggs come from cage-free houses. For Sauder's business, it's 10 or 12 percent, and growing every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's more expensive to produce eggs this way, Sauder says. You need more buildings for the same number of chickens, because you can't stack the birds on several levels in the same house. There's also more work involved — somebody has to walk through the chicken house collecting stray eggs that chickens laid on the ground, rather than in their enclosed nests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the industry, he says, is responding to \"the perception that cage-free is a better product than eggs from a conventional cage house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do you believe that?\" I ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sauder pauses. \"From a nutrition standpoint, the egg is the same,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet as Sauder stands amid the crowd of chickens, he does seem pleased. You're closer to the animals, he says, the way farmers were 50 years ago. You also get to see chickens acting more like chickens, dust-bathing or perching on long metal rods up near the ceiling. \"You come in here at nighttime, those things are all full up there, because birds migrate to the top perches. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/google-joel-riddell600.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-64095\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/google-joel-riddell600.jpg\" alt=\"Joel Riddell and Robert Moon with Google contingent at San Francisco Pride Parade. Photo courtesy of Joel Riddell\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joel Riddell (L) and his partner, Robert Moon (R) with Google contingent at San Francisco Pride Parade.\u003cbr>Photo courtesy of Joel Riddell\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Food fans and radio listeners are likely familiar with the voice of Joel Riddell, the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/04/12/iacp-in-san-francisco-conference-highlights-and-awards/\">award winning\u003c/a> host and producer of \u003ca href=\"http://www.talk910.com/pages/diningaround.html?page=3\">Dining Around on Talk 910\u003c/a>—-a show that is considered the Bay Area place for chefs and notable personalities to dish on food, wine, event and travel. Thought leaders like Lidia Bastianich Felidia, Michael Pollan, Hubert Keller, Margrit Mondavi and Joanne Weir hit the airwaves for interviews with Riddell, and he is often at food and fundraising events with his partner, Robert Moon. The couple is based in San Francisco and Moon, who works for Google, is an apt sidekick for his ability to photograph and document (in witty fashion) the details of their restaurant and home-cooked feasts from hole-in-the-wall Korean to white tablecloth joints. Chef Emily Luchetti enjoys checking out Moon’s social media to guess what Riddell may discuss on air the following weekend—the descriptions always make me hungry, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riddell’s earlier career revolved around theatre, hospitality (he co-owned and operated a bed & breakfast) and internet publishing before he landed in San Francisco at KGO Radio where he was the Producer of the Gene Burns Programs for coverage in Israel, Cyprus, Tuscany, Vatican City, and French Polynesia. I first met Riddell over a decade ago via a local chef who was friendly with the radio broadcaster \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Longtime-KGO-host-Gene-Burns-72-dies-4549884.php\">Gene Burns\u003c/a>, who recently passed away and was a professional mentor to Riddell. I have catered for Riddell and Burns and spent time carousing with Riddell and Moon at media events including “pinch-me-now” dinner moments at \u003ca href=\"http://incanto.biz/\">Incanto Restaurant\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"http://sfist.com/2007/05/10/dinner_with_a_white_slave.php\">Marco Pierre White\u003c/a> and a fundraiser at \u003ca href=\"http://www.tablehopper.com/newsletter/071120/\">E&O Trading Company\u003c/a> in San Francisco with Anthony Bourdain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>June is LGBT Pride Month and there is so much energy focused on equal rights for the LGBT community right now, especially in California. \u003ca href=\"http://www.scotusblog.com/\">The Supreme Court\u003c/a> is set to rule on Prop 8, California’s same-sex marriage ban \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/25/proposition-8-supreme-court/\">today\u003c/a> as well as DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act), the federal law that defines marriage as only between a man and a woman. Regarding employment, professions that have been slow to open the closet doors are gradually yielding to the pressure and challenging homophobia within their systems. With that in mind, I asked Riddell about his personal and professional experiences being an out gay man in the food media world. His comments have been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/NoH8.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-64099\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/NoH8.jpg\" alt=\"Joel Riddell and Robert Moon. Photo: Adam Bouska\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joel Riddell and Robert Moon. Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://www.bouska.net/\">Adam Bouska\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: How long have you and Robert been together? You did a No H8 photo, share the same shoe size, and are pretty open about your love for each other. Tell us more.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ridell:\u003c/strong> Robert and I have been together for over 17 years. He is my bright and shining star and at times my knight in shining armor, too. We do try to be a team. The night that we did our \u003ca href=\"http://www.noh8campaign.com/\">No H8\u003c/a> Adam Bouska photo, we went to \u003ca href=\"http://www.alexanderssteakhouse.com/\">Alexander’s Steakhouse\u003c/a> and still had the tattoos on. We were wearing suits and ties but couldn’t wash off the tattoos. We were having dinner and the waiter said, \"What’s with the tattoos? Six or seven waitstaff came by and said, 'look at these two guys.' Robert and I always try to walk hand in hand, and just let people know we’re a couple and that it’s totally normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: What is your experience with regard to homophobia and LGBT acceptance within the culinary & media worlds that you work in?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ridell:\u003c/strong> I think within the media world you would expect that it would be very open and very cool. But when I first started over 10 years ago, it was okay to make sexist and homophobic comments. Fat comments, too. This was in the workplace, from management on down. Those comments made a lot of people uncomfortable. Things have gotten a lot better. Here at Clear Channel, they are the sponsors of Pride and the stations show range and personalities. It’s very multicultural and management makes it really clear that they won’t put up with any discrimination in the workplace. You have to pay attention to advertisers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For restaurants, I think of old guard French restaurants that were very male-centric places but not necessarily homophobic. Here in the Bay Area, think of how many restaurants have staff that are Latino, European, Asian-- we’re so multicultural.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Places who dub themselves as gay or lesbian before being a restaurant have more issues than the opposite. Take Arrows in Maine for example. Clark and Mark are amazing chefs. They were out on Top Chef Masters and on the forefront of many things. But they don’t have rainbow flags or rainbow chefs coats. Not that they are not proud but the clientele in that part of Maine can be a bit conservative. They are chefs and the restaurant is glorious and they just happen to be gay. Each of us needs to be as out as possible so we can be a united force against the hatred others feel. I have been fired for being gay and hired for being gay. It all depends upon the restaurant owner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: What was it like for you coming out professionally? When did you do it? What was your job at the time? Have you noticed a change over time?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ridell:\u003c/strong> It was sort of de rigueur. I’m working on a food show. In my old company, people would make odd homophobic comments. Usually when folks would realize I had a longtime partner they would say things like, “I certainly think it’s okay you’re together, but don’t think you should get married.” It’s like a weird club, ‘because we’re straight, we’re allowed all this stuff, but you’re not allowed to have it,’ kind of thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My parents are quite religious but they’ve always been inclusive of everyone. If you’re going to be homophobic, it’s not a Christian attitude. For me it’s always been a positive and inclusive situation. With my mom, she has always shown that if you’re a loving individual, why would anyone criticize that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I did have a woman at work who would call me “princess Joel.” That’s not okay. I told her many times “You just called me ‘princess Joel’ in front of 17 people.” She’d say, “You know I’m joking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I couldn’t tell her, “Lady, this is not cool,” because she was in management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: What are your favorite places to eat and drink?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Riddell:\u003c/strong> We go to \u003ca href=\"http://www.hubertkeller.com/restaurants/fleur-de-lys.html\">Fleur de Lys\u003c/a> every Christmas and have done so for 15 years. The only year we missed was the year they had the fire, and we went to the Ritz and Hubert and Marie Chantal Keller were there. We went to Fleur de Lys when we signed our mortgage papers—-you need to celebrate things like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I love \u003ca href=\"http://www.acquerello.com/\">Acquerello\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I try to eat at a lot of different places. We’ve been to \u003ca href=\"http://www.nopalitosf.com/\">nopalito\u003c/a> a bunch of times. I like \u003ca href=\"http://www.boxingroom.com/\">Boxing Room\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.dobbsferrysf.com/\">Dobb’s Ferry\u003c/a>, the places you can go in and grab a table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If we’re looking for seafood, we go to \u003ca href=\"http://www.hayesstreetgrill.com/\">Hayes Street Grill\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://perbaccosf.com/\">Perbacco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.farallonrestaurant.com/\">Farallon\u003c/a> are good and \u003ca href=\"http://www.trickdogbar.com/\">Trick Dog\u003c/a> is really cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"http://www.namusf.com/\">Namu Gaji\u003c/a>, the Lee brothers are smart and they know what they’re doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: You were a guest on KQED's \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/checkplease/2013/04/10/check-please-bay-area-100th-episode-angkor-borei-indigo-farallon/\">Check, Please! Bay Area\u003c/a>. 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The staff on the show really respected what we had to say about our experiences and that is an important aspect to the program; it’s totally driven by the people on the panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/joel-riddell-leslie-sbrocco1000.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-64097\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/joel-riddell-leslie-sbrocco1000.jpg\" alt=\"Joel Riddell was a guest on KQED's Check, Please! Bay Area 100th episode. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"669\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joel Riddell was a guest on KQED's Check, Please! Bay Area \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/checkplease/2013/04/10/check-please-bay-area-100th-episode-angkor-borei-indigo-farallon/\">100th episode\u003c/a>. 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Photo courtesy of Joel Riddell\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joel Riddell (L) and his partner, Robert Moon (R) with Google contingent at San Francisco Pride Parade.\u003cbr>Photo courtesy of Joel Riddell\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Food fans and radio listeners are likely familiar with the voice of Joel Riddell, the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/04/12/iacp-in-san-francisco-conference-highlights-and-awards/\">award winning\u003c/a> host and producer of \u003ca href=\"http://www.talk910.com/pages/diningaround.html?page=3\">Dining Around on Talk 910\u003c/a>—-a show that is considered the Bay Area place for chefs and notable personalities to dish on food, wine, event and travel. Thought leaders like Lidia Bastianich Felidia, Michael Pollan, Hubert Keller, Margrit Mondavi and Joanne Weir hit the airwaves for interviews with Riddell, and he is often at food and fundraising events with his partner, Robert Moon. The couple is based in San Francisco and Moon, who works for Google, is an apt sidekick for his ability to photograph and document (in witty fashion) the details of their restaurant and home-cooked feasts from hole-in-the-wall Korean to white tablecloth joints. Chef Emily Luchetti enjoys checking out Moon’s social media to guess what Riddell may discuss on air the following weekend—the descriptions always make me hungry, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riddell’s earlier career revolved around theatre, hospitality (he co-owned and operated a bed & breakfast) and internet publishing before he landed in San Francisco at KGO Radio where he was the Producer of the Gene Burns Programs for coverage in Israel, Cyprus, Tuscany, Vatican City, and French Polynesia. 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Photo: Heather Rousseau/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Eliza Barclay and Heather Rousseau, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/06/25/194334508/how-well-do-you-know-your-fish-fillet-even-chefs-can-be-fooled\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (6/25/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the world of seafood, looks can be very deceiving. And unfortunately for anyone who buys fish, it's easy for people above you in the supply chain to sell you something other than what you want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oceana, a conservation group, has been beating the drum about seafood mislabeling for a while. Back in February, the organization released a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/02/21/172589997/one-in-three-fish-sold-at-restaurants-and-grocery-stores-is-mislabeled\">study\u003c/a> that found that 33 percent of the seafood it sampled at retail outlets in 21 states was mislabeled. (Note: The sampling was not randomized, so the findings should be taken with a grain of salt.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month, Ocean hosted \u003ca href=\"http://aqua.org/news/2013/13-6-12-fresh-thoughts-dc-oceana\">a dinner\u003c/a> with the National Aquarium in Washington, D.C., to prove once again how easy it is to become a victim of seafood fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's nearly impossible for anyone – even experts — to tell the difference between many species of fish,\" Beth Lowell, Oceana's campaign director, tells The Salt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event began with a raw fish guessing game. \u003ca href=\"http://oceana.org/en/about-us/people-partners/oceana-staff/kimberly-warner\">Kimberly Warner\u003c/a>, Oceana's senior scientist, stood with a clipboard and pen by a large silver bowl filled with ice and six glistening fillets of fish. The objective? To correctly identify wild salmon, red snapper and halibut paired with almost doppelgangers beside them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the guests were flummoxed by the task. Listen to how some made up their minds:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F98290537\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64078\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/seafoodfraud-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/seafoodfraud-1-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"Chef Xavier Deshayes of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C., speaks to a crowd of diners during a fish taste test sponsored by the conservation group Oceana. Photo: Heather Rousseau/NPR\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" class=\"size-large wp-image-64078\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef Xavier Deshayes of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C., speaks to a crowd of diners during a fish taste test sponsored by the conservation group Oceana. Photo: Heather Rousseau/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The confused included chef Xavier Deshayes of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, who had prepared the meal we would soon eat. At first, Deschayes told me that he doesn't fall victim to mislabeling because he uses only purveyors that he trusts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as soon as he saw the two coral-colored fillets of salmon on the ice, he admitted that he didn't know which one was wild. \"It's a lot easier to tell when you're looking at a whole fish instead of a fillet,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64075\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/seafoodfraud-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/seafoodfraud-2-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"Chef Xavier Deshayes tested diners' fish identification skills by serving an escabeche-style grouper fish, left, with an escabeche-style weakfish, right, and potatoes between them. Photo: Heather Rousseau/NPR\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" class=\"size-large wp-image-64075\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef Xavier Deshayes tested diners' fish identification skills by serving an escabeche-style grouper fish, left, with an escabeche-style weakfish, right, and potatoes between them. Photo: Heather Rousseau/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Steve Vilnit, director of fisheries marketing for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, said he struggled with the snapper. \"The sinew in the meat ... I'm thinking, but I don't know; that's a tough one.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After most guests had tried their hand at identifying the raw fillets, we sat down to a meal of some of the most commonly mislabeled fish species: grouper, salmon and red snapper. Each course featured two equally sized pieces of fish prepared in exactly the same way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F98291630\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first was grouper, cooked escabeche-style, and paired with potato salad. Its lookalike, Oceana's Lowell eventually told us, was a virtually indistinguishable piece of weakfish. In the February report, the group had found that 11 of the 44 samples of grouper, or 25 percent, were mislabeled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next up was the salmon course, with farm-raised salmon pitted against its wild counterpart. Listen to some of the guests' reactions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F98291819\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dehayes told me that farm-raised salmon has thicker layers of fat, and that the additional fat gives it a moister, more buttery texture. \"I prefer farmed salmon to wild salmon, because wild salmon gets so dry when you cook it,\" he said. That turned out to be a helpful tip when it came time to taste the fish. The fish on the right felt apart in my mouth so easily, while the fish on the left, while delicious, had a stronger, fishier taste. It was the wild salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64076\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/seafoodfraud-3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/seafoodfraud-3-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"Wild Alaskan king salmon, at left, with farm-raised salmon, right, are served at a dinner at the National Aquarium in Washington, D.C. Photo: Heather Rousseau/NPR\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" class=\"size-large wp-image-64076\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wild Alaskan king salmon, at left, with farm-raised salmon, right, are served at a dinner at the National Aquarium in Washington, D.C. Photo: Heather Rousseau/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lastly, we tasted red snapper, alongside a typical imposter: tilapia. Red snapper is the most commonly mislabeled fish, according to the Oceana report: Only seven of the 120 samples the group purchased and sampled were actually red snapper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prevalence of mislabeled red snapper gives consumers a distorted view of its availability, says Lowell. Another downside is that fishermen who are trying manage red snapper fisheries sustainably, like the ones in the \u003ca href=\"http://mygulfwild.com/\">Gulf Wild\u003c/a> program who manage the catch in the Gulf of Mexico, have to compete against double-dealers who may have different priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64077\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/seafoodfraud-4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/seafoodfraud-4-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Fillets of chimichurri-crusted red snapper and tilapia, separated by fresh corn polenta. Photo: Heather Rousseau/NPR\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"size-large wp-image-64077\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fillets of chimichurri-crusted red snapper and tilapia, separated by fresh corn polenta. Photo: Heather Rousseau/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The snapper that Dehayes had prepared was covered in a chimichurri crust and served with fresh corn polenta. Although the snapper and tilapia had slightly different textures, strong spices made it tough to tell the two apart. It was easy to see why diners are so often tricked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So who's to blame for all this mislabeling? According to Oceana, it's really hard to tell. It could be happening in the boat, during processing, at the wholesale level, at the retail counter or somewhere else along the way. But as Deshayes notes, if you're eating fraudulent fish at a restaurant, it may not be the fault of the chef.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many chefs, especially those running large operations, buy fish that's already been filleted to save time. So that makes it harder for even the sharpest-eyed chefs to spot imposters in the kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To stop mislabeling, Oceana would like to see an international traceability system to inform consumers where and when a fish was caught and what gear was used. But political support for such a system, which would be costly, has been tepid. The seafood industry — one of the least transparent in the food system — has a long way to go before it can become more accountable to 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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Listen to how some made up their minds:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F98290537\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64078\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/seafoodfraud-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/seafoodfraud-1-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"Chef Xavier Deshayes of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C., speaks to a crowd of diners during a fish taste test sponsored by the conservation group Oceana. Photo: Heather Rousseau/NPR\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" class=\"size-large wp-image-64078\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef Xavier Deshayes of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C., speaks to a crowd of diners during a fish taste test sponsored by the conservation group Oceana. Photo: Heather Rousseau/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The confused included chef Xavier Deshayes of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, who had prepared the meal we would soon eat. At first, Deschayes told me that he doesn't fall victim to mislabeling because he uses only purveyors that he trusts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as soon as he saw the two coral-colored fillets of salmon on the ice, he admitted that he didn't know which one was wild. \"It's a lot easier to tell when you're looking at a whole fish instead of a fillet,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64075\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/seafoodfraud-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/seafoodfraud-2-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"Chef Xavier Deshayes tested diners' fish identification skills by serving an escabeche-style grouper fish, left, with an escabeche-style weakfish, right, and potatoes between them. Photo: Heather Rousseau/NPR\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" class=\"size-large wp-image-64075\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef Xavier Deshayes tested diners' fish identification skills by serving an escabeche-style grouper fish, left, with an escabeche-style weakfish, right, and potatoes between them. Photo: Heather Rousseau/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Steve Vilnit, director of fisheries marketing for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, said he struggled with the snapper. \"The sinew in the meat ... I'm thinking, but I don't know; that's a tough one.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After most guests had tried their hand at identifying the raw fillets, we sat down to a meal of some of the most commonly mislabeled fish species: grouper, salmon and red snapper. Each course featured two equally sized pieces of fish prepared in exactly the same way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F98291630\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first was grouper, cooked escabeche-style, and paired with potato salad. Its lookalike, Oceana's Lowell eventually told us, was a virtually indistinguishable piece of weakfish. In the February report, the group had found that 11 of the 44 samples of grouper, or 25 percent, were mislabeled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next up was the salmon course, with farm-raised salmon pitted against its wild counterpart. Listen to some of the guests' reactions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F98291819\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dehayes told me that farm-raised salmon has thicker layers of fat, and that the additional fat gives it a moister, more buttery texture. \"I prefer farmed salmon to wild salmon, because wild salmon gets so dry when you cook it,\" he said. That turned out to be a helpful tip when it came time to taste the fish. The fish on the right felt apart in my mouth so easily, while the fish on the left, while delicious, had a stronger, fishier taste. It was the wild salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64076\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/seafoodfraud-3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/seafoodfraud-3-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"Wild Alaskan king salmon, at left, with farm-raised salmon, right, are served at a dinner at the National Aquarium in Washington, D.C. Photo: Heather Rousseau/NPR\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" class=\"size-large wp-image-64076\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wild Alaskan king salmon, at left, with farm-raised salmon, right, are served at a dinner at the National Aquarium in Washington, D.C. Photo: Heather Rousseau/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lastly, we tasted red snapper, alongside a typical imposter: tilapia. Red snapper is the most commonly mislabeled fish, according to the Oceana report: Only seven of the 120 samples the group purchased and sampled were actually red snapper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prevalence of mislabeled red snapper gives consumers a distorted view of its availability, says Lowell. Another downside is that fishermen who are trying manage red snapper fisheries sustainably, like the ones in the \u003ca href=\"http://mygulfwild.com/\">Gulf Wild\u003c/a> program who manage the catch in the Gulf of Mexico, have to compete against double-dealers who may have different priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64077\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/seafoodfraud-4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/seafoodfraud-4-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Fillets of chimichurri-crusted red snapper and tilapia, separated by fresh corn polenta. Photo: Heather Rousseau/NPR\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"size-large wp-image-64077\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fillets of chimichurri-crusted red snapper and tilapia, separated by fresh corn polenta. 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So that makes it harder for even the sharpest-eyed chefs to spot imposters in the kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To stop mislabeling, Oceana would like to see an international traceability system to inform consumers where and when a fish was caught and what gear was used. But political support for such a system, which would be costly, has been tepid. The seafood industry — one of the least transparent in the food system — has a long way to go before it can become more accountable to 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\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/farmers-foodsovereignty.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/farmers-foodsovereignty-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Brown pets "Sprocket," his family's 4-year-old, sole milking cow, before hosing her down at his farm in Blue Hill, Maine. Brown has become the poster child for Maine's food sovereignty movement. Photo: John Clarke Russ/Bangor Daily News\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"size-large wp-image-64003\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Brown pets \"Sprocket,\" his family's 4-year-old, sole milking cow, before hosing her down at his farm in Blue Hill, Maine. Brown has become the poster child for Maine's food sovereignty movement. Photo: John Clarke Russ/\u003ca href=\"http://bangordailynews.com/2013/02/15/news/hancock/brooksville-may-join-local-food-turf-war-between-towns-state-government/?ref=search\">Bangor Daily News\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Maria Godoy, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/28/186955163/farm-free-or-die-maine-towns-rebel-against-food-rules\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (6/21/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New Englanders have never been shy about revolting against what they see as unfair food regulations. Remember that whole \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/12/16/132104814/original-tea-party-fans-take-note-todays-your-day\">Boston Tea Party\u003c/a> thing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So perhaps it's not so surprising that in Maine, towns have been staging another revolution: They've declared independence from state and federal regulations on locally produced foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, the tiny Isle of Haut became the \u003ca href=\"http://islandadvantages.com/news/2013/jun/6/isle-au-haut-votes-in-favor-of-food-self-governanc/#.UcIV4ecqbTo\">10th town\u003c/a> in the state to pass what's known as a food sovereignty ordinance. Essentially, these resolutions claim that small local food producers don't have to abide by state or federal licensing and inspection regulations if they are selling directly to consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea is to spare farmers from burdensome regulations that are \"squeezing the smallest of the small,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://foodformainesfuture.net/about/staff/bob-st-peter-articles-recordings/\">Bob St. Peter\u003c/a> of the advocacy group Food For Maine's Future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Peter helped draft one of the first local food sovereignty resolutions, passed in Blue Hill, Maine, back in 2011.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>That declaration of independence, he tells The Salt, was inspired in part by bureaucratic bumbling over chickens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64004\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/foodrally.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/foodrally-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"More than 150 people gather to hear farmer Dan Brown speak in 2011. The Maine Department of Agriculture filed suit against Brown, alleging that he was illegally selling unpasteurized milk without a license. Brown, meanwhile, insisted that a local food ordinance adopted by Blue Hill residents protects the rights of farmers to sell directly to consumers without a license. Photo: Kevin Miller/Bangor Daily News\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" class=\"size-large wp-image-64004\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 150 people gather to hear farmer Dan Brown speak in 2011. The Maine Department of Agriculture filed suit against Brown, alleging that he was illegally selling unpasteurized milk without a license. Brown, meanwhile, insisted that a local food ordinance adopted by Blue Hill residents protects the rights of farmers to sell directly to consumers without a license. Photo: Kevin Miller/\u003ca href=\"http://bangordailynews.com/2011/11/18/news/hancock/farmers-consumers-rally-to-support-man%E2%80%99s-selling-of-%E2%80%98raw-milk%E2%80%99/?ref=search\">Bangor Daily News\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maine had passed a law that allowed small-scale poultry producers — those selling less than $1,000 worth per year — to slaughter the birds on their farms instead of at a slaughterhouse. The goal was to help more farmers get into the poultry game, but when state regulators wrote up rules for how the home slaughtering would work, they came up with a scheme that would cost a poultry farmer some $30,000 to $40,000 to implement, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They took this exemption and made it worthless, basically,\" says St. Peter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Blue Hill and other towns revolted, passing laws that claimed local food sovereignty rights — rights that contradicted state rules. And the idea spread. The revolutionary fervor has now reached the statehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past two weeks, state lawmakers have acted on several bills designed to exempt small local food producers from the reach of state regulators. Some of these bills — including ones designed to fix that small-scale poultry slaughter conundrum — have already been enacted into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One measure that failed to pass would have made local food sovereignty the law of the state. Some state lawmakers had raised fears that if Maine relaxed its food regulations in this way, federal food-safety authorities might step up their scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Peter argues that he and other local food activists don't want to eliminate regulation; they just want to self-regulate at the community level among people who know and trust each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the scale we are talking about,\" St. Peter says, \"where you are literally giving the food to the people who will eat it in their homes ... if you're producing bad food, people are going to know about it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just because you know your farmer doesn't mean your farmer knows food safety, says Kevin Poland, who runs \u003ca href=\"http://polandfarm.com/\">a family farm in Brooklin, Maine\u003c/a>. He's been a vocal opponent of the local food ordinances. Maine's food regulations, he says, are pretty lax already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It has nothing to do with encouraging local farming,\" Poland tells The Salt. \"There's plenty of that here. What there should be more encouragement of is food safety. The state of Maine has laws that work.\" And the laws that \u003cem>are\u003c/em> in place are there to keep consumers safe, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's what state agricultural officials argued when they brought down the law on Dan Brown, a Blue Hill dairy farmer who operates on a \u003cem>very\u003c/em> small scale: just one cow. This week, Brown was \u003ca href=\"http://bangordailynews.com/2013/06/18/news/hancock/blue-hill-raw-milk-seller-ordered-to-pay-1000-in-court-fines-fees/\">ordered to pay\u003c/a> more than $1,000 in fines and fees for selling raw milk without a license and without proper labeling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raw milk sales are legal in Maine, but there are some rules about how to go about it. Brown's case has been seen widely as a test of the legality of Maine's local food sovereignty revolution: Brown had claimed that Blue Hill's local food ordinance exempted him from state licensing and labeling regulations. The state disagreed, and so did the judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, one measure that has cleared a major hurdle in the statehouse would make it legal for small farmers like Brown to sell up to 20 gallons of raw milk a day without a license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if it becomes law, it would come too late to save Brown, but the revolution marches on. (Cue the \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSSn3NddwFQ\">music\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>P.S.: Interestingly, the concept of food sovereignty originated not with farmers in Maine but with \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://viacampesina.org/en/\">peasants\u003c/a>\u003cem> in developing nations facing globalization. And it has spread to Europe, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.psfk.com/2013/06/british-peasant-farm-life.html\">including farmers in Britain\u003c/a>,\u003cem> as The Guardian reported this week.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>P.P.S.: Yes, we know that Live Free or Die is New Hampshire's state motto, not Maine's.\u003c/em>\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>St. Peter helped draft one of the first local food sovereignty resolutions, passed in Blue Hill, Maine, back in 2011.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>That declaration of independence, he tells The Salt, was inspired in part by bureaucratic bumbling over chickens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64004\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/foodrally.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/foodrally-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"More than 150 people gather to hear farmer Dan Brown speak in 2011. The Maine Department of Agriculture filed suit against Brown, alleging that he was illegally selling unpasteurized milk without a license. Brown, meanwhile, insisted that a local food ordinance adopted by Blue Hill residents protects the rights of farmers to sell directly to consumers without a license. Photo: Kevin Miller/Bangor Daily News\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" class=\"size-large wp-image-64004\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 150 people gather to hear farmer Dan Brown speak in 2011. The Maine Department of Agriculture filed suit against Brown, alleging that he was illegally selling unpasteurized milk without a license. Brown, meanwhile, insisted that a local food ordinance adopted by Blue Hill residents protects the rights of farmers to sell directly to consumers without a license. Photo: Kevin Miller/\u003ca href=\"http://bangordailynews.com/2011/11/18/news/hancock/farmers-consumers-rally-to-support-man%E2%80%99s-selling-of-%E2%80%98raw-milk%E2%80%99/?ref=search\">Bangor Daily News\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maine had passed a law that allowed small-scale poultry producers — those selling less than $1,000 worth per year — to slaughter the birds on their farms instead of at a slaughterhouse. The goal was to help more farmers get into the poultry game, but when state regulators wrote up rules for how the home slaughtering would work, they came up with a scheme that would cost a poultry farmer some $30,000 to $40,000 to implement, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They took this exemption and made it worthless, basically,\" says St. Peter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Blue Hill and other towns revolted, passing laws that claimed local food sovereignty rights — rights that contradicted state rules. And the idea spread. The revolutionary fervor has now reached the statehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past two weeks, state lawmakers have acted on several bills designed to exempt small local food producers from the reach of state regulators. Some of these bills — including ones designed to fix that small-scale poultry slaughter conundrum — have already been enacted into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One measure that failed to pass would have made local food sovereignty the law of the state. Some state lawmakers had raised fears that if Maine relaxed its food regulations in this way, federal food-safety authorities might step up their scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Peter argues that he and other local food activists don't want to eliminate regulation; they just want to self-regulate at the community level among people who know and trust each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the scale we are talking about,\" St. Peter says, \"where you are literally giving the food to the people who will eat it in their homes ... if you're producing bad food, people are going to know about it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just because you know your farmer doesn't mean your farmer knows food safety, says Kevin Poland, who runs \u003ca href=\"http://polandfarm.com/\">a family farm in Brooklin, Maine\u003c/a>. He's been a vocal opponent of the local food ordinances. Maine's food regulations, he says, are pretty lax already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It has nothing to do with encouraging local farming,\" Poland tells The Salt. \"There's plenty of that here. What there should be more encouragement of is food safety. The state of Maine has laws that work.\" And the laws that \u003cem>are\u003c/em> in place are there to keep consumers safe, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's what state agricultural officials argued when they brought down the law on Dan Brown, a Blue Hill dairy farmer who operates on a \u003cem>very\u003c/em> small scale: just one cow. This week, Brown was \u003ca href=\"http://bangordailynews.com/2013/06/18/news/hancock/blue-hill-raw-milk-seller-ordered-to-pay-1000-in-court-fines-fees/\">ordered to pay\u003c/a> more than $1,000 in fines and fees for selling raw milk without a license and without proper labeling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raw milk sales are legal in Maine, but there are some rules about how to go about it. Brown's case has been seen widely as a test of the legality of Maine's local food sovereignty revolution: Brown had claimed that Blue Hill's local food ordinance exempted him from state licensing and labeling regulations. The state disagreed, and so did the judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, one measure that has cleared a major hurdle in the statehouse would make it legal for small farmers like Brown to sell up to 20 gallons of raw milk a day without a license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if it becomes law, it would come too late to save Brown, but the revolution marches on. (Cue the \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSSn3NddwFQ\">music\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>P.S.: Interestingly, the concept of food sovereignty originated not with farmers in Maine but with \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://viacampesina.org/en/\">peasants\u003c/a>\u003cem> in developing nations facing globalization. And it has spread to Europe, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.psfk.com/2013/06/british-peasant-farm-life.html\">including farmers in Britain\u003c/a>,\u003cem> as The Guardian reported this week.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>P.P.S.: Yes, we know that Live Free or Die is New Hampshire's state motto, not Maine's.\u003c/em>\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\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63941\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/stophunger.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/stophunger-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"Gracie Shannon-Sanborn, 5, holds a sign as she joins her father Allen Sanborn (L) and members of Progressive Democrats of America at a rally in front of Rep. Henry Waxman's office on June 17, 2013 in Los Angeles, Calif. The protestors asked the congressman to vote against a House farm bill, which was defeated Thursday. Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" class=\"size-large wp-image-63941\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gracie Shannon-Sanborn, 5, holds a sign as she joins her father Allen Sanborn (L) and members of Progressive Democrats of America at a rally in front of Rep. Henry Waxman's office on June 17, 2013 in Los Angeles, Calif. The protestors asked the congressman to vote against a House farm bill, which was defeated Thursday. Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\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/2013/06/20/193926602/house-smacks-down-farm-bill-and-farm-lobby-too\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (6/20/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The so-called farm bill came to the floor of the House of Representatives Thursday. And it crashed. The defeat \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.rollcall.com/goppers/farm-bill-defeated-in-blow-to-boehner/\">shocked\u003c/a> many observers, but the vote wasn't even particularly close: 234-195. (You can see how your own representative voted \u003ca href=\"http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll286.xml\">here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the immediate aftermath, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., looking shell-shocked, blamed partisan politics. Democrats voted overwhelmingly against the bill, in large part because it cut an estimated $2 billion each year from nutrition programs like SNAP, or food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 62 Republicans also voted against the bill, which highlighted an emerging new bipartisan reality. Farmers, along with those members of Congress who represent farm districts, are losing their grip on U.S. farm policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farm-friendly members of the House Agriculture Committee wrote the version of the bill that died today. It included generous benefits to farmers, mainly in the form of government-subsidized \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/30/187346726/Congress-Poised-To-Make-Crop-Insurance-Subsidies-More-Generous\">crop insurance\u003c/a>. It did not include a host of proposed reforms: limits on crop subsidies; proposals to buy more \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/04/04/176154775/a-political-war-brews-over-food-for-peace-aid-program\">international food aid\u003c/a> abroad, rather than ship it from U.S. ports; and nationwide standards on cages for egg-laying chickens, an idea supported by the country's biggest egg producers and also the Humane Society of the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, the full House might have let the Agriculture Committee have its way. Not this year. Libertarians and liberals alike ganged up to defeat it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://royce.house.gov/\">Ed Royce,\u003c/a> R-Calif., a senior Republican who tried unsuccessfully to reform the food aid parts of the bill, voted against it today. So did budget hawk Paul Ryan, R-Wisc. The conservative \u003ca href=\"http://www.heritage.org/\">Heritage Foundation\u003c/a>, which wanted deeper cuts in both food stamps and farm subsidies, called the bill's defeat \"a victory for the taxpayer and the free market.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill's supporters might not have anticipated that reaction. \"Lawmakers on the [Agriculture] Committee really underestimated the extent to which others were offended\" by the bill, says Scott Faber of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ewg.org/\">Environmental Working Group\u003c/a>, one of the leading critics of agricultural subsidies. Lobbyists for farm interests \"increasingly seem to have a political tin ear,\" Faber says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear what happens next. The Senate has passed its own version of the farm bill, but it will remain in limbo until the House finishes its own work. \u003ca href=\"http://lucas.house.gov/\">Frank Lucas\u003c/a>, R-OK., chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, announced that \"we are assessing all our options.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://collinpeterson.house.gov/\">Collin Peterson\u003c/a>, D-Minn., the committee's senior Democratic member, wrote \"I have a hard time seeing where we go from here.\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.stabenow.senate.gov/\">Debbie Stabenow\u003c/a>, D-Mich., who chairs the Senate Agriculture Committee, proposed that the House simply adopt the Senate's version of the bill, and bring it to the floor for a vote.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nCopyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63924\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/pauladeen.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/pauladeen-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Will Paula Deen's admission of using a racial slur crumble her empire? Photo: Courtesy of Food Network/AP\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"size-large wp-image-63924\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Paula Deen's admission of using a racial slur crumble her empire? Photo: Courtesy of Food Network/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Maria Godoy, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/06/20/193984884/paula-deen-child-of-dixie-meet-the-internet-age\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (6/20/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paula Deen may be famous for her deep-fried Southern cooking, but the Internet isn't buying her defense that she used a racial slur because of her deep Dixie roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News that Food Network star \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/19/showbiz/paula-deen-racial-slur/index.html\">Deen admitted\u003c/a> to using the N-word has set the Internet on fire, inspiring the Twitter hashtag \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23PaulasBestDishes&src=tyah\">#PaulasBestDishes\u003c/a>. (Eater has \u003ca href=\"http://eater.com/archives/2013/06/19/the-best-and-worst-paulasbestdishes-tweets-mocking-paula-deen.php\">rounded up\u003c/a> some of the best and worst of the breed.) Among the sample fare:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\"cobblers filled with \"Strange\" Fruit\" (a reference to a\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2012/09/05/158933012/the-strange-story-of-the-man-behind-strange-fruit\"> racially loaded Billie Holiday song\u003c/a>)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\"Brie at last. Brie at last!\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\"Paula Deen can teach you how to properly segregate the eggs whites from the colored yolk.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\"We Shall Over-Crumb Cake\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Deen's admission that she used the epithet came during a deposition in a sexual and racial harassment lawsuit filed against her and her brother by a former employee. Trying to contain the controversy, Paula Deen Enterprises issued a statement Thursday that suggested Deen's use of the N-word occurred long ago — after all, she was born in Georgia in 1947, at a time when segregation was still the law of the land in the South. The company statement read in part:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"During a deposition where she swore to tell the truth, Ms. Deen recounted having used a racial epithet in the past, speaking largely about a time in American history which was quite different than today,\" the statement reads. \"[Paula] was born 60 years ago when America's South had schools that were segregated, different bathrooms, different restaurants and Americans rode in different parts of the bus. This is not today.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>For those of you just catching up with this story, when Deen was asked by an attorney whether she had used the N-word, she responded, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/148813272?access_key=key-1bwrp0z47fo5v3xlbcs7&allow_share=true\">transcript\u003c/a>, \"Yes, of course. ... But that's just not a word that we use as time has gone on. 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But Deen denied a former employee's allegations that she used the N-word to describe these black waiters. That allegation probably inspired this #PaulasBestDishes tweet: \"Old-timey black tuxedo cake, served by non-uppity black servants.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=193965215\">All Things Considered\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2013/06/20130620_atc_07.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But is all this Paula punning and panning likely to crumble her buttery empire — which includes not just TV shows but also cookbooks, a magazine and several restaurants?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think anyone in good conscience will have to pause in thinking about supporting her company in light of this,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~tforman/\">Tyrone Forman\u003c/a>, a sociology professor at Emory University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She sells food and catering but also image,\" Forman told Lohr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for Food Network told NPR that the network will not tolerate any form of discrimination and is monitoring the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Deen's fate may lie in the hands of fans, many of whom profess an emotional connection with the celebrity chef. 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Sugar production fueled the slave trade that brought millions of Africans to the Americas. As the Polaris Project, an anti-slavery organization, \u003ca href=\"http://www.polarisproject.org/human-trafficking/labor-trafficking-in-the-us/agriculture-a-farms\">notes\u003c/a>, agricultural work today is often isolated and transient, with peaks and lulls in employment due to changing harvest seasons. These conditions leave workers vulnerable, creating opportunities that farmers and food factory owners continue to exploit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new State Department report has many references to farm work: Malian children transported to Cote d'Ivoire for forced labor on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2011/11/29/142891462/nestle-to-investigate-child-labor-on-its-cocoa-farms\">cocoa farms\u003c/a>, and ethnic Indian families forced to work in the Bangladesh tea industry, to name a couple. Some of these offending farms and factories serve only the local economy. But some are selling food products on the international market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As NPR's Michele Kelemen \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=193576474\">reports\u003c/a>, the State Department hopes that this year's report will hit home with Americans. And so an official reminds us that as consumers, we are at one end of a food supply chain that sometimes leads back to slavery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/124083.htm\">Luis CdeBaca\u003c/a>, the official in charge of the office that monitors and fights trafficking, told Michele:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"This year's report looks at things like the fishing industry — and actually raises a question that I think all of us should be asking, which is: How much of my life is impacting modern-day slavery? Do I know where the shrimp is being caught or processed that is on my plate?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>CdeBaca's comment was a lightly veiled reference to shrimp farms and processing plants in Thailand, which labor groups claim are heavily reliant on migrant workers from Laos, Burma and Cambodia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of ongoing issues on shrimp farms and elsewhere, for the fourth year in a row, the State Department put Thailand on the \"Tier 2 Watch List\" for failing to increase efforts to address human trafficking, compared to the previous year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thailand is the source of one-third of all shrimp imported by the U.S. American retailers (and consumers) like it in part because it is cheap. Labor abuses at Thai shrimp factories and farms that export are well-documented. As PBS \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/july-dec12/thaishrimp_09-20.html\">reported\u003c/a> last year, Thai labor activists have documented abuses of Burmese migrant workers who work in the shrimp-peeling sheds that supply shrimp to larger factories for export to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.warehouseworkersunited.org/wp-content/uploads/Narong-Shrimp-Report_Final.pdf\">briefing paper\u003c/a> by the International Labor Rights Forum and the Warehouse Workers United noted labor abuses at Thai shrimp producer \u003ca href=\"http://www.narongseafood.co.th/\">Narong Seafood\u003c/a>, which has been a major supplier to Walmart and a leading shrimp processor for the U.S. market. But despite the prevalence of abuse, the paper recommends that Walmart not drop Narong as a supplier, but instead \"work with labor and human rights activists in Thailand to ensure the rights of the workers who produce shrimp for Walmart in Thailand are respected.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forced labor, including debt bondage, also continues to sustain palm oil plantations in Malaysia, also on the Tier 2 Watch List, and Indonesia. (Palm oil is used in lots of processed foods, from \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/12/174140241/can-dunkin-donuts-really-turn-its-palm-oil-green\">Dunkin Donuts\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/07/04/137539757/two-scouts-want-palm-oil-out-of-famous-cookies\">Girl Scout cookies\u003c/a>.) Cargill, the largest importer of palm oil and trader of 25 percent of the world's palm oil supply, \u003ca href=\"http://clients.squareeye.net/uploads/tft/M_Gupta_-_Cargills_Journey_On_Palm_Oil_-_April_2013.pdf\">says\u003c/a> it has a policy of not using any slave or child labor. But the Rainforest Action Network \u003ca href=\"http://ran.org/cargill-supplier-connected-illegal-logging-allegations-slave-labor\">has alleged that\u003c/a> one of Cargill's palm oil suppliers used slave labor on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in the U.S., food workers aren't exempt from abuse and even slavery. As our NPR colleague Yuki Noguchi \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/05/16/184491463/disabled-workers-victory-exposes-risks-to-most-vulnerable\">reported\u003c/a> last month, men with intellectual disabilities who worked at an Iowa turkey-processing plant suffered severe verbal and physical abuse for over 20 years. 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Photo: James Finley/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\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/2013/06/19/193447482/and-the-winner-of-the-world-food-prize-is-the-man-from-monsanto\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (6/19/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever heard of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.worldfoodprize.org/\">World Food Prize\u003c/a>? It's sometimes called the \"Nobel Prize for food and agriculture,\" but it has struggled to get people's attention. Prize winners tend to be agricultural insiders, and many are scientists. Last year's laureate, for instance, was \u003ca href=\"http://www.worldfoodprize.org/index.cfm?nodeID=47890&audienceID=1\">Daniel Hillel\u003c/a>, a pioneer of water-saving \"micro-irrigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63747\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/monsanto-fraley.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/monsanto-fraley.jpg\" alt=\"A pioneer in genetically modified crops, Robert Fraley has spent his entire career at Monsanto. He's now the company's chief technology officer. Photographer: Brian Schmittgens/Courtesy of the World Food Prize Foundation\" width=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63747\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pioneer in genetically modified crops, Robert Fraley has spent his entire career at Monsanto. He's now the company's chief technology officer. 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