Friday I had to grab a quick lunch, so I joined a colleague at the “UQ Refec” (University of Queensland – that’s in Australia – food court in American lingo) to buy a sandwich

Friday I had to grab a quick lunch, so I joined a colleague at the “UQ Refec” (University of Queensland – that’s in Australia – food court in American lingo) to buy a sandwich

According to the Ottawa Citizen, public health officials have found Salmonella typhimurium in frozen ground beef and Salmonella Heidelberg in raw chicken samples taken from a Lunch Lady franchise that has been linked to an outbreak.

Although things are supossedly getting better, tough economic times since 2008 have led to an increase of folks relying on food banks and soup kitchens. Stories of concerned people distributing donated or leftover food have been common over the past couple of years as communities come together to support those hit hardest.

A keen barfblog reader sent on the below video from ABC news with a new angle on the ongoing pink slime saga.

“We have the safest food supply in the world. Despite the listeria outbreak, the sheer volume of produce, fresh or processed, that is consumed by the American public with little or no incidence is testimony to that fact.”

Over the past couple of days I've been hanging out traveling roadshow of North Carolina Cooperative Extension meetings where the focus is on strengthening communities through local foods.