Via Society of Professional Journalists. 15 pages., Jon Marshall's "News Gems" item on the Society of Professional Journalists web site highlights an example of "the best of American journalism." Features a newspaper series about a husband-wife reporter team that spent a week trying to eat only locally grown and raised food.
Among other findings, this study revealed "that public education efforts by an individual grocery story chain can have an important effect on knowledge of irradiated food."
Addresses consumer concerns about the safety and freshness of meat after the Washington Post reported that a growing proportion of prepackaged meats in the United States are "spiked with carbon monoxide - a gas that keeps even rotten meat looking red and fresh."
