Listen To The Story Staff Report Because consumers are still getting sick from eating pot pies recalled last month, the Illinois Department of Public Health is asking all consumers check their freezers and throw out any pot pies that could be linked to a multi-state outbreak of salmonellosis. Vernon Register-News - IDPH warns against recalled items. Listen To The Story Staff Report Because consumers are still getting sick from eating pot pies recalled last month, the Illinois Department of...

The Soil Association said the widespread use of GM crops, such as maize and soya, flies in the face of consumer opposition to the controversial technology. It believes the public is being kept in the dark about farmers and supermarkets' reliance on GM animal feed because there is no legal requirement to mention it on food labelling. Most modified animal feed crops have been altered to include a gene that gives them resistance to spraying with certain chemicals, which means they can survive...

Medical personnel at a Grand Rapids hospital are conducting tests on the body of David Small, 51, after a friend and a college official found him dead inside his college apartment around 6 p. Authorities said Small suffered from health issues and was prescribed several medications. His estate still has the right to bring any claims under Michigan law that he was entitled to bring when he was alive. Man's death won't stop pot pie case. It's still unclear whether man died from tainted food....

As one of our main cash crops, eating it reminds us to be thankful for another successful farming season. It loses some color from repeated freezing, is no longer crisp, no longer marketable but it is at its absolute peak for sweetness and tenderness. In a medium bowl, toss together the brown sugar, cinnamon sugar and cranberries and pecans. We think it's just so cool that we can go out and pick it frozen, thaw it out and cook it. baby spinach or a large head of romaine or butter lettuce,...

Archaeological evidence shows that communities in southeast Europe were already practising early farming techniques and pottery production before the Flood. Archaeological records show that around this time there was a sudden expansion of farming and pottery production across Europe, marking the end of the Mesolithic hunter-gatherer era and the start of the Neolithic. As these agricultural communities moved west, they would have taken farming with them across Europe. The collapse of the...

The voluntary recall, an expanded version of one issued Tuesday for nearly 332,000 pounds of Topps beef, was the first in the 67-year history of Topps, one of the nation's largest meat processing concerns. Geoffrey Livermore, Topps' vice president of operations, said the recalled products were distributed to retail grocers and food service institutions throughout the United States over the past year. Based on consumption patterns, he said, the company believes most of the products have...

By Meredith Brody Published: July 18, 2007 When tiny Tajine opened in the Tenderloin in 2005, people who managed to squeeze into its miniature space on a gritty block of Jones were delighted by both its delicious food and its amazingly gentle prices. Tajine's recent move to a much larger storefront on Polk, more than tripling its capacity, so excited us especially the prospect of being able to eat there in a large group, impossible in the old location that we invited an entire apartment...

He said it would be more helpful to have North Dakota driver's license exams written in Spanish or read to workers who may have the skills needed to drive but are not fully fluent in English. Lopez said he has a driver's license and a Highway Patrol trooper read the test questions to him. Lopez estimated that 80 percent of the migrant workers who come to work during the harvest leave before winter. He drives semi-trucks for area farmers. Many of them left even before the newspaper ad was...

Specifically, we improved the record-keeping for how we developed our cooking instructions and improved our testing for incoming ingredients per the USDA's request, Childs said. ConAgra has not identified the source of the salmonella in the pot pies, but company officials have said they are confident the pies will be safe because of the changes that were made. For both domestic and international suppliers, ConAgra Foods has put in place measures to ensure the safety of the ingredients that...