Don’t let Big Ag drive small farmers out of business
A renaissance in sustainable food networks could be stopped in its tracks if one-size-fits-all food safety legislation is approved by Congress.
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China Lowers Dairy Protein Requirement to Curb Melamine
To keep farmers from adding melamine to their milk, the Chinese government is lowering the required protein levels for raw milk, the Alibaba News Channel reported. Melamine is an industrial chemical typically used to manufacture plastics, fertilizer and concrete, but was used to falsify milk protein readings and was found in milk products in 2008 in a scandal linked to the deaths of at least six …
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