•Traceability is defined as “the ability to trace and follow a food, feed, food-producing animal or substance intended to be or expected to be incorporated into a food or feed in all stages of production, processing or distribution.

•Every manufacturer should be able to tell where all ingredients are coming from, in which these are processed and where the end-product currently is.

•Each warehouse has to be able to tell where the food is coming from and where it went to. In case there is a ‘call-back’ a warehouse needs to provide this data within 6 hours.

The Catorganic tool has been designed to give you full track and trace capability from beginning to end in your manufacturing process.
It is your choice if you make this information available to customers and or 3rd parties.
This tool can be modified with relative ease to track and trace conventional production processes.
It has been designed for those businesses that seek a more transparent supply chain.
In the long term we believe transparency,traceability and sustainability will go hand in hand.
Slowly consumers are becoming more aware and are starting to ask the right types of questions.
Questions like: how do I know, this is Organic? Is the label on the product enough.
The same applies to Fair Trade, how do I know that the premium I am paying for this product actually ends up with the person that needs it so desperately.
Only when using a transparent system that can be questioned by consumers will we be able to create a fairer and more sustainable world.

This video is part of our movie-making marketing campaign. Trying to get people to click through to www.mykitchenisnotyourlab.com!

cheers!
adriano

It may surprise people if I say that do not find the concept of cloning absolutely horrendous.
But I don't, cloning might offer solutions to some of the worlds greatest problems; disease and hunger.
I still have not been able to form a opinion on the matter, we as a human race have been genetically modifying crops and animals for thousands of years, but not at the speed at which scientists are now capable of changing Mother Nature's creations.
What I do have a serious issue with is the fact that I would like to know IF something is genetically modified.
For the simple reason that I believe I should have the choice as to what I put inside my body.
So what does completely horrify me is the fact that genetically modified meats are now entering the food supply chain and we as a consumer have no way of knowing that we are buying it.
That is truly horrific, at this point in time we do not know what the long term consequences are of all these genetic modifications and personally I would like give it a lot more time before we decide if it is safe for human consumption.
The fact of the matter is: clones have now entered the British food supply chain and there is no way of knowing where these calves have ended up.
We will never know what has happened to the offspring of these calves, this I do find seriously disturbing.
DEFRA has acknowledged that they simply do not know.
The FDA in the US has approved against public opinion and against the wishes of its own congress to allow genetically modified foods on supermarket shelves.
So if you do want to allow this, I believe both FDA and DEFRA have the obligation to ensure that we as a consumer have the choice.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1024578/Eight-cloned-cows-born-B...

http://ga3.org/campaign/clone_pledge

Today I upgraded a Drupal Module to the new Drupal version 6.2

If you might be interested:
http://www.drupal.org

It's the signwriter module
http://www.drupal.org/project/signwriter

The new version
http://drupal.org/node/259503

Catorg is constantly changing.
That is why this site is also constantly changing.
We are currently in the process of preparing to launch Catorganic.

Organic Certification helps maintain the integrity of organic food and processed products from farm to consumption.

If there is one constant at the moment it is change.
By saying that we adopt our working methods to the internet and not the other way around Catorg will always be at the forefront of change.

08 is upon us

2007 has seen some great new sites being launched for the ethically inclined, as well as the continuing of some of the classics.

Academics from the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science at Manchester University investigated the carbon emissions that result from a traditional Christmas feast of roast turkey with

Today's collapse of the very thing FB was made for is impressive.

I must say

Is Amazon's S3 a good storage service?

An ingenious film that tells us how we got in this mess

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

Canada, along with 188 other countries, committed itself to achieving the Millennium Goals by 2015. A major goal is reducing hunger and ensuring environmental sustainability. However, the Canadian Government (along with most of those other countries) are failing to honour commitments. “Canada is invisible in the campaign to halve global hunger,” says the Canadian Foodgrains Bank,a non-profit organization working to end hunger in developing countries.Ten years ago, at the World Food Summit, Canada played a major role.

There is little truth left in the food industry any more.

http://www.ideashower.com/blog/block-facebook-beacon/

Block Facebook Beacon
Nate Weiner November 7th, 2007
158 Comments

So here I am, burning some brain cells and taking some time to relax playing a game on Kongregate, when a little window pops up in the corner of my screen and says “Kongregate is sending this to your Facebook profile: Nate played Desktop Tower Defense 1.5 at Kongregate.” Which immediately elicited a “Hellll no” from my mouth.

Nature runs on sunlight.
Nature uses only the energy it needs.
Nature fits form to function.
Nature recycles everything.
Nature rewards cooperation.
Nature banks on diversity.
Nature demands local expertise.
Nature curbs excesses from within.
Nature taps the power of limits.