Monday headline roundup 7/9

Eagle Eye selects Harvestmark Utah based Eagle Eye will use HarvestMark on products including tomatoes, peppers, melons and potatoes, according to its Produce Warehouse Manager, Mike Jacobson.
HarvestMark allows anyone, anywhere, to instantly trace fresh produce via the Web or cell phone from the home or store back to the specific ranch, field and date on which it was picked. It provides unit-level, consumer-facing traceability for field-packed fresh produce and gives consumers confidence in, and information about, the safety of their food.

Going and growing organic: consumers turned to home grown produce Whether it's making a special trip to a local farmstand or looking for the organic label in the supermarket, more people are looking for fresh food and locally produced food.Finding it isn't always easy. Much of the produce in local supermarkets has been shipped across the country, sometimes even from another country. That means more people are looking to local farms for food.



A pro food farm bill If our farm bills had also been healthy food bills, we would have distributed government support more equitably to make nutritious foods more accessible and more consistent with US Department of Agriculture dietary guidance, which encourages us to eat more fruits and vegetables.


Getting kids to eat better What have government programs done to change behavior?

Employers to face more headaches on immigration The collapse of federal immigration reform means businesses can expect more state and local laws aimed at preventing them from hiring undocumented workers or renting apartments to illegal aliens.
Immigration attorneys also think the Department of Homeland Security will move forward with a proposed federal regulation that would increase a business' liability for employing workers whose Social Security numbers don't match government databases.
"There will be mass layoffs as soon as that regulation is published," said Laura Reiff, an immigration attorney at Greenberg Traurig's McLean, Va., office and co-chair of the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition