Posted by Sheryl Kirby in food for thought, news and media, on the web on August 4, 2008 at 4:50 pm

Here's some food for thought for today...

• The Toronto Star ran a Reuters piece last week on a proposal in California to give caged hens more room. Egg farmers in that state are not happy, suggesting the additional cost will put them out of business.
• On the NOW blog, Steven Davey reports on the death of Toronto restaurant owner Amadeu Gonzalves
• And Amadeu's Restaurant is one place people won't be able to visit in the immediate future if they're checking out BlogTO's restaurant round-up of Kensington Market

• At the Grinder, Nicholas Day brings up the issue of how frozen fish is far more environmentally friendly than fresh
• Mark Bitman of Bitten looks at Victory Gardens as the solution to rising food prices
• Yet at What to Eat, Marion Nestle points out that there is actually more food available in the US compared to 1970 levels
• Sandy Schwarc at Junkfood Science also looks at the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey that Nestle reports on, and determines that we're not eating as badly as we're led to believe
• COOL - that is, Country of Origin Labelling - is set to cost the US a cool 2.5 Billion dollars, reports the Sacramento Bee
• And last week, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency issued recalls on certain brands of cheese, mushrooms and chocolate
• And finally, from the "karma is a bitch" file, UK Chef Gordon Ramsay headed to Iceland recently where he went puffin hunting as part of his TV series The F-Word. Besides getting bitten by one of the birds in the process of catching it, Ramsay also fell off a steep cliff and nearly drowned. But Ramsay can't seem to catch a break, because after the piece aired last week, the viewer backlash in the UK (where puffins are a protected species) has reached epic proportions.