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 This weekend police in Japan arrested eight people in
connection with the deliberate mislabeling of grilled eel farmed in China that
were passed off as being Japanese-raised. The 8 execs arrested are accused of labeling 256 tons of grilled eel from China as having been farmed in Japan, and selling 49 tons of them a few months later.
Why do this? Besides the obvious reason of China's awesome record of food safety, in Japan, domestically raised eel sells at prices two to three times higher than Chinese-raised eel. Sneaky, sneaky! I'm glad they're getting busted, personally! -Jess
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My last blog was about how Chinese factories were closing due to the lagging import market. I thought this blog would be a good follow up. An artist by the name of Michael Wolf has made an art installation using only Chinese-made toys and pictures of the factory workers. The exhibit, which is installed in a gallery in Hong Kong, contains approximately 20,000 toys with faces (his criteria in choosing them) that he gathered over a month's visit to Salvation Army-type stores in the US.  
Check out Wolf's webpage for more pics of the exhibit, the process in which he made it, and pictures of the factory workers. It's pretty powerful stuff.
-Jess
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 The global economic crisis has reached Asia. And while many people might have thought it wouldn't happen, when thinking about how dependent the rest of the world is on China and other Asian countries' factories, its not suprising that the lack of spending globally would hit those factories hard. In fact, in the first half of 2008, over 67,000 factories closed in China! Wow. The New York Times has written an article on how the Chinese factory worker is suffering from the lack of exports as well as what this means for the Chinese economy as a whole.
I highly recommend reading this as it shows how global this economic crisis has really gone.
-Jess
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If you have a child thats in the process of applying to colleges, and they're very ecologically minded, then you might want to steer them towards Unity College in Unity,Maine. Unity College is entirely environmentally focused, with some of the best environmentalists in the country teaching the classes. But my favorite part of Unity is their commitment to buying local foods. Unity allocates a minimum of 15% of their food budget to sourcing local foods, and they recently had a big lobster dinner for the students sourcing local lobsters. The College had this lobster dinner to aid local fishermen and lobstermen to get fair prices at market. Their purchase of 400 lbs of the crustacean was an attempt to support these local food providers. Rob Constantine, Unity's Vice President of College Advancement, stated that "It's
a treat for the students to get lobster...that is not what they get on a
college campus. "We want to support the
industry so we've done a lot of programs to keep money in the state
rather than drive it out of the state, Constantine explained. So support changing the planet by introducing your kids to Unity College...the free lobster dinner in their future might sell them on the idea! -Jess
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As reports are becoming seemingly more and more frequent concerning the safety of the food we eat, a new US food and safety labeling poll conducted by Consumer Reports National Research Center will hopefully change the governments stance of the safety of our foods.
Yay America! Make those dollars count! Organic and local may be more expensive but it's voting dollars, people!
-Jess
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