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Interview with Marianne Cufone
Marianne Cufone is the Fish Program Director for Food & Water Watch. One of the main fish program campaigns examines catch share programs—or catch and trade—and the impact they have on our food supply, fishing communities and the environment.
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Investigations into a multi-state outbreak of salmonella have triggered a major recall of eggs involving 17 states and 380 million eggs—that's one bad egg per person in the United States.
By now, many of us have developed an unnatural but necessary fear of French toast, cake, omelets, egg salad sandwiches and more. Investigations into a multi-state outbreak of salmonella have triggered a major recall of eggs involving 17 states and 380 million eggs (one egg per person in the United States, plus several omelets), and those numbers could continue to grow. The affected eggs were packaged as far back as mid-May—an entire season ago.
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Food & Water Watch asking for directions to the milking demonstration in Wisconsin.
Our day started off with an early interview at WORT radio in Madison. WORT is a community-sponsored radio station—the perfect venue to share our story with those listening in Madison about what we’ve been seeing and doing along our trip. Even more importantly, it was an opportunity to educate listeners in the area about the Department of Justice and USDA hearings that are happening this summer, for which we’ve been collecting petition signatures. If you haven’t yet, be sure to sign our petition!
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A group of Wisconsin dairy cows say, "cheese" for the Rocky Road Trip crew.
Fortunately, since the Rocky Road Trip crew woke up rather early on the morning we traveled to Wisconsin, our first stop in Madison—City of Four Lakes—was at Just Coffee, the city’s first and only 100% fair trade coffee roaster. There, we picked up John Peck from Family Farm Defenders and moved along to Madison Sourdough where Just Coffee’s perfectly roasted fair trade beans were ground and brewed to make an iced red eye that jump-started one of the most exciting days of our trip so far. (Fun fact: The University of Wisconsin Badgers get their name from the lead workers who dug shelters into their mine shafts for sleeping and to protect themselves from the elements.)
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My first trip to Chicago! People are pretty food smart around here. (Fun fact: the largest public library in the world is Chicago’s Harold Washington Library Center. It contains over 2 million books.) Saturday was a day packed with locally grown food and community activities in the Chicago area. We started up north at the Downtown Evanston Farmers’ Market, where we set up bright and early for a series of cooking demonstrations that were scheduled throughout the morning. They definitely had one of the largest selections of the freshest and ripest produce I have ever seen at a farmer’s market. One farmer had 36 different varieties of European potatoes!
The cow has landed! The Chef Rocky Road Tour hits Chicago for a weekend of food activism.
Who's that guy with the carrot in his mouth?
We had an early start on Friday morning. Thankfully, local food activists Jeff McCabe and Lisa Gottlieb invited us to stay at their home in Ann Arbor the night before their regular Friday morning community breakfast. FridayMorningsAtSELMA is a local food breakfast salon, where neighbors and activists gather and eat delicious local food and initiate action on community food issues. It was an incredible event to be a part of. Over 60 people came through to share food and ideas. I was up and cooking at 6am, when the crowd started pouring in. With the help of the SELMA volunteers, I helped to prepare whole grain waffles with herb-roasted chicken and grilled apricots for the breakfast guests.
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