Great Tech Innovation: Find Food Health and Safety Info From Your Phone

By Tim Kingston, AlterNet
Posted on March 19, 2009, Printed on March 19, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/131752/

The price of a dysfunctional food system is a potentially dangerous dinner. To put it bluntly, in our profit-driven food system, the very nutrients needed to stay alive could kill you. If it's not Chinese melamine in your milk, it's American E.coli in your spinach. If it's not the salmonella in your peanut butter from Georgia, it's that same bug in your Mexican green chilies. Consumers -- health conscious or not -- have a right to be paranoid.

What's to be done?