Barf blog

From the same group that brought you "Don't Eat Poop" T-shirts comes news of "BarfBlog."
The International Food Safety Network launched the Web site earlier this month. From a report on Lexblog....

Spearheaded by Dr. Doug Powell, scientific director of IFSN and associate professor at Kansas State University, the BarfBlog utilizes new media technologies to spread awareness of issues that could have far-reaching impacts on our daily lives. Their bloggers have done research on everything from the food safety practices of television chefs to communication in crisis, resulting in a powerful balance: they know what they’re talking about, and they know how to effectively spread their word.
“We’re all about getting food safety information to a whole bunch of different people,” said Ben Chapman, a graduate student working with IFSN and a blogger for the BarfBlog.
Those people, he says, range from the farmers growing food products to the chefs who prepare them in restaurants. “Safe Food, From Farm to Fork” is a key tenet of IFSN’s mission. Their blog, according to Chapman, is developed with this mantra in mind.
In the past, the IFSN’s main avenue of creating awareness was through an electronic listserv that reached 12,000 people in 70 countries around the world. The four listserv newsletters produced by the group include content specific to various elements of food safety and agriculture.
But a listserv isn’t as efficient as a blog. After an unsuccessful attempt in a primitive era of blogging, the IFSN decided to give it another chance - and, this time, to take a new approach.
About two years ago, the KSU-based group launched their first blog, aimed at collecting personal stories from community members related to food safety issues. It instead developed into more of a web forum, and the IFSN’s initial enthusiasm for blogging soon wore off.
Not surprisingly, their interest in the project was recently sparked again as staff members, monitoring the role blogs play in providing news information for the masses, noticed the increasing shift towards utilization of the technology.

TK: Here is the link to Barfblog. I like the site. It has several authors and appears to be "fresh." Despite the title, this blog is easy to stomach.