Watching the Board of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) discuss the Microbiological Safety of Raw Drinking Milk (as agenda item 4.2 was titled) and the proposed review of controls at its meeting last month was really rather depressing and the outcome entirely predictable. The tone of the meeting was set when Tim Smith, Chief Executive of [...]
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The future of raw drinking milk hangs in the balance
Posted in Cheese and Dairy
Posted by pundles on 2 April 2012
http://pauseforfood.com/2012/04/02/the-future-of-raw-drinking-milk-hangs-in-the-balance/
Pextenement Cheese Company – a Calder Valley food find and carbon friendly cows too
On the morning of my visit to Pextenement Farm I came, by chance, upon an article in the US Farmers Weekly headed ‘Cheese producers urged to focus on breed for carbon reduction’. Not all cows, it seems, are the same. The lighter weight Jersey versus the Holstein uses significantly less land and water resulting in [...]
Posted in Cheese and Dairy, Yorkshire Food and Drink
Posted by pundles on 3 February 2012
http://pauseforfood.com/2012/02/03/pextenement-cheese-company-a-calder-valley-food-find-and-carbon-friendly-cows-too/
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