Food safety is always a challenge. Insuring food safety from suppliers in distant countries like China is even more of a challenge. “Blockchain: A Better Way to Track Pork Chops, Bonds, Bad Peanut Butter?,” (New...
Federal farm programs regulate and subsidize wheat, corn, soybeans, cotton, and rice production and exports. These subsidies are costly to taxpayers and consumers, and complicate trade relations with China and other Asian countries. Downsizing The...
“How Antibiotic-Tainted Seafood From China Ends Up on Your Table,” (BloombergBusinessweek, December 15, 2016), describes the traditional “sustainable” Chinese use of animal waste to feed fish. Since the beginning of agriculture, animal waste has fertilized...
Ending the Cuba trade embargo would shift sugar production back to Cuba and away from ecologically fragile lands in the U.S. “Protect the Everglades, not sugar farmers,” (Florida Sun Sentinel, Feb 16, 2017) argues: Unfortunately, the most important...
“Externalities” are costs imposed on others. A factory or farm dumping waste into local rivers or lakes is “externalizing” a cost of production. Reducing production costs by pushing air and water pollution on others...
Who decides which food and food processes are safe? Who decides what food safety research will be federally-funded and food-safety regulations mandated? Georgia State University climate scientist Judith Curry’s Climate, Etc. post excerpts from Michael...
R Street’s “Some Ag Committee members draw millions in farm subsidies,” June 13, 2016, on farm subsidies, begins: Who benefits from farm subsidies? R Street long has been critical of our federal farm-support system,...
Reason.com’s June 13, 2016 post “Five Years and $500 Million Later, USDA Admits That ‘Food Deserts’ Don’t Matter” draws from a recent report on USDA program to address claims that people in poor neighborhoods...
In their 2008 Heritage Backgrounder, “A Safe and Bountiful Harvest: How to Ensure America’s Food Safety,” Daniella Markheim and Caroline Walsh note: Americans are shopping the world’s grocers like never before, importing almost $75...
The Stoa policy topic on agriculture and/or food safety has been selected: The United States federal government should substantially reform its agricultural and/or food safety policy in the United States. Two earlier posts discussed...
