Although parents play a key role in ensuring that the food our family eats is safe, kids need to know about food safety too. Here's some things kids can do (along with the whole family): Wash and Dry your hands before you make or eat a snack or meal. Put back packs on the floor, not the counter (or desk or other eating surface).  Same goes for purses, btw. Put foods like milk, yogurt, lunch meat and eggs back in the refrigerator right away. 

Organic production standards are based on principles such as sustainability, reducing off-farm inputs and environmental impact and minimizing the use of synthetic materials. Buying food labelled organic would seem to be an easy way to feed your family more healthy food, right?

I have a friend whose 17-year old daughter was assualted when she was 16 by a military man.  She became pregnant and chose to have the baby.  My friend is supporting her daughter as she finishes school and moves on with her life.  They still live in the small (military) town where the assualt occurred, and where the perpetrator's wife and other children live.

I recently came across a survey of 500 'typical' households in the Midwest done by the University of Nebraska.  They interviewed the primary grocery shopper about her/his attitudes and opinions about locally grown and processed food,  including meat, as well as organic and all-natural .

The New York Times did an editorial on food irradation that prompted me to do my own research. It was interesting that they mentioned that "NASA has long fed astronauts irradiated beef".  Anyway, this is an example of a scary word (radiation) attracting far more attention than some other processes without a scary name.