The Hartman Group has an infographic on the most prominent trends and insights in the culture of foods & beverages in 2017. That was the year that was.
Elaine Watson at Food Navigator-USA says we should be watching these ten trends in 2018.
She has interesting things to say about all of these. Take a look and keep score as the year progresses.
To start the new year, I’m going to post predictions, starting with Rabobank’s newsletter on food trends. This is always worth reading (thanks Nick Fereday).
Its most recent Talking Points gives the results of a survey of 200 professionals (including me) about their thoughts about food trends in 2017, heading into 2018.
It ends with a long list of comments collected from those who wrote in. Here is a small sample. The last one, under WTF, is mine.
Civil Eats reviews what happened this year:
It was a tumultuous year for food policy in the United States.
The year started off with several efforts by the Obama Administration to safeguard efforts at wide-scale food system change—such as the long-awaited formalization of new animal welfare rules in organics and the so-called “GIPSA rule,” which promised to level the playing field for small-scale meat producers in a consolidated marketplace. But once Donald Trump took office, things began to shift rapidly.
Take a look. The article, by Twilight Greenaway, refers to Civil Eats’ articles throughout the year.
Since September, the New York Times has been investigating how the food industry markets its products in the developing world, and how this marketing is encouraging a rising prevalence of obesity and its health consequences. The series is called Planet Fat. This is the complete set to date, in reverse chronological order.
If you haven’t read them, this week is a good time to catch up. Enjoy!
India is “sitting on a volcano” of diabetes. A father’s effort to ban junk food sales in and near schools aims to change what children eat.
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I am indebted to food safety lawyer Bill Marler for enlightening me about these pills in the first place, and their contamination with Salmonella.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment have linked one person’s Salmonella Oranienburg infection to taking rattlesnake pills. Rattlesnake pills are often marketed as remedies for various conditions, such as cancer and HIV infection. These pills contain dehydrated rattlesnake meat ground into a powder and put into pill form. CDC recommends that you talk to your health care provider if you are considering taking rattlesnake pills, especially if you are in a group more likely to get a severe Salmonella infection.
Can’t wait to hear what your health care provider says about these.
