Here in the Chicago-land area, the electric utility ComEd is sponsoring several events throughout the holiday season where they'll recycle your old incandescent strings of lights and swap them for new LED strands.  I think the restriction is 5 strands per person, but that's still a pretty good start to a more…

Here in the Chicago-land area, the electric utility ComEd is sponsoring several events throughout the holiday season…

Yes, regulation, and some transparency on if or how the produce was processed and tested. My favorite organic brand has a “double test and hold” policy for coliform bacteria that they use on all their greens, and they haven’t had a incident of illness since they implemented the practice several years ago.

Betcha dollars to donuts this tracks back to improper use of manure or “processed” sewage as fertilizer.

You’re gut’s in the right place.  The issue with E. Coli is that some strains can reproduce enough on/in the product that they leave significant quantities of toxins behind (as waste product of their own metabolism) and while cooking temperatures can kill the bacteria, they are not high enough to denature the toxins,…

Depends on the plastic. Earthbound Farm buys plastic water and soda bottles that have been pelletized and then molds them into clear plastic clamshells for their salads and greens. They figure that buying the recycled pellets instead of buying pre-made clamshells also saves a ton of fuel because the pellets are more…

WEAR NATURAL FIBERS.

This.

The only thing airplane ice has going for it is that it’s not actually being made on the plane, but rather being delivered in bags or whatever as the plane is being serviced at each stop. The turnaround time for the airlines these days means most planes are barely cleaned of litter and visible filth, let alone…

A phobia would imply an irrational fear. Food safety (and yes, that extends to ice as well as utensils, water, condiments, etc.) is a serious concern. Crunching the numbers tells us that you’re a million times more likely to have your life put at risk by foodborne illness than by terrorism - yet people are willing to…

What a small, terrified nation we have become.

Only a matter of time until a jackbooted psycho in the employ of the U.S. Border Patrol murders a child.

I have never gotten ill from sampling fruit in stores

You may want to reconsider that. It’s not the chemicals and junk from the farm...it’s the dirt from the pickers and the baskets, the oils from the conveyor belts, the workers coughing and sneezing and wiping their mouths and noses on their work gloves, the truck exhaust from the trip between farm and sorting centers,…

You think it pisses people off to know you spent $55 dollars for something worth 2 bucks and that warns them you’re trash?

Some lettuce packing is labeled in a way that doesn’t make it clear where the product was grown....

You’re deluding yourself if you think anyone here was in favor of that. Obama’s use of drones is the most common criticism of the man.

Because there is a delay between when you ingest and when you hurl. People love to blame the air or the seatmate on the plane for making them sick. It could be the ice or the attendant’s dirty hands or all the surfaces the flyer touched.

Oh stewardess, I speak jive.

“Our in-flight dinner was either steak or fish.”

also: reusable chopsticks! my dad used to bring a pair of chopsticks everywhere he went. he started doing it as a way to make himself slow down while eating, and then it just became habit.