Morsels: choosing fish, saving bees, eating dangerously, ignoring recalls, GM failure, GM ban, newer potatoes, no elixir, Hackney salad, egg factory

• Plenty more fish in the sea? Slow Food launches new guide to choosing fish from sustainable sources at Slow Fish event
  2009/04/15
• Sign UK gov petition to save honey bee. We need pollination! (via @DigitalSignals @NikkiPilkington @britesprite @ethicalsoap)
  2009/04/15
• Eating dangerously: US food safety not improving – more from NY Times. Each year in US 76 million ill from food, 300,000 hospitalized, 5,000 die. But…
  2009/04/10
• Many consumers ignore food product recalls – more from ScienceDaily [40% don't think they apply to their food, 12% don't care] (via @foodessentials)
  2009/04/14
• Genetic engineering hasn’t increased US crop yields – traditional breeding more effective, says Union of Concerned Scientists review (via @ SoybeanWatch )
  2009/04/14
• 6 European countries have now banned farming of GM corn MON 810 – more from CBCnews (via @NatashaChart @ civileater @NaomiStarkman @WorldAgForum)
  2009/04/14
• Newer potatoes: Sainsbury’s First for Fresh campaign to see direct deliveries of potatoes from local farms to 35 stores – more from FreshPlaza
  2009/04/14
• Future food? Food Ethics Council imagines 4 scenarios for food in 2022: high-tech, market-driven, ultra-foodie, home-grown
  2009/04/14
• Pomegranate juice doesn’t “cheat death”. Damn! more from FoodAndDrinkEurope.com
  2009/04/10
• Decoding Hackney salad: just found Growing Communities’ superb gallery of leaves – 28 leaves pictured and described. Seasonal treats in this week’s veg bag: wild garlic, pak choi, Hackney salad and added some rhubarb and sweet cicely. (Sweet cicely sweetens rhubarb. Just stir few leaves into stewing rhubarb. Adds a delicate aniseed flavour too.)
  2009/04/10
• Inside an Easter egg factory
  2009/04/9

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