Burns Best Farm

Back in Business

What a glorious day.  First, after-Christmas shopping to spend my gift cards.  Then, some quiet web surfing, reading homestead blogs from the last two or three weeks (I've been out of computer commission since the last week of November, so I've missed a lot of reading!)

I found a new website/blog called The Complete Patient.  The author, Dave Gumpert, also writes for Business Week dot com and has a great article on NAIS that really hit hard on all cylinders.  I am thrilled that the No NAIS message is being covered in a mainstream online forum like Business Week.  Gumpert should be read frequently.

One of the other topics he covers in his blog is the latest e.coli scare in the Northeast.  He links to the CDC website and press releases as well as the Taco Bell homepage, where he shows that there is e.coli bacteria (several strains, not all as virulent as the H7 bad boy) all over our food supply.  The powers that be at Taco Bell and the CDC literally do not know from what food product the illnesses originated.   That is scary, people!

Lastly, be sure and read Gumpert's post about the "pristine nature" of our current food supply.  The statistics should be a five-alarm wake-up call to anyone remotely concerned about what they eat. 

Makes you think twice about those New Year's resolutions anyway.......

Glad you're back

03:36, 2006-Dec-27 .. Posted by workinprogress

I missed reading your posts and am looking forward to reading the links you posted here when I get a few moments. Welcome back!

Shannon

Zartic

10:44, 2006-Dec-27 .. Posted by fooddude

Thanks for the suggestions on a name for my farm.

I have been a DSR for about 10 years or so. I currently work for a company named CRS Onesource out of Owensboro, KY. I did my time with a big nationwide company (Gordans Foodservice) and I like working for a smaller mom and pop type company 1,000 to 1 better.

As for my Zartic connection. Zartic is one of a few hundred companies that we sell for. It just happens that Jim Mauer, the owner of Zartic, is a huge University of Tennessee football fan as we are at our house. I was born and raised in West TN so naturally we bleed orange. At this years annual food show Mr. Mauer told me that if my customers booked a certain number of cases he would take me to a game. I did and he did. Cool huh?

What did you do in foodservice?

Thanks again for the suggestions. I look forward to hearing from you again.

Tony