Sustainability has many strange bedfellows and eccentricities. Not too long ago, the buzz was all about creating a carbon footprint, and as folks pursued carbon footprinting, the question became “do I conduct it as a Scope 1, 2 or 3 assessment?”
HACCP (hazard analysis critical control point) systems have been utilized by the U.S. dairy industry since the mid-1980s, when everything was a critical control point.
Should dairy farms be allowed to sell jars and bottles of raw (unpasteurized) cow’s milk directly to consumers? It’s an issue that stirs the blood, like a helmet law for motorcycles or a body scan at the airport.
Do you think healthy people want messages about healthy foods in a place where they are practicing being healthy? I think so, and so do dairy processors.
Consumers have hectic, complicated lives. The 2011 trends forecast by the Food Channel (in conjunction with Culturewaves, the International Food Futurist and Mintel International) states: “for years we talked about simplicity, sometimes under names like ‘local’ or ‘social consciousness’ or ‘green.’