Bruce Cockburn and food safety

From displaced Guatemalans to the Amazon rain forest to the angst of high school sweethearts, Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn has been there for four decades to turn protest into song.

Now, Cockburn is traveling to Nova Scotia, Canada, for a Friday appearance to help kick off the four-day Real Food, Farming and Flowers weekend focused on food security and related issues, both locally and globally.

The headline says, Cockburn here to promote food safety, once again confusing food safety with local food.

Mark Austin, co-organizer of the Truro and Halifax events, said,

"I believe, as many do right now, we have to find a way to reconnect. There’s a lot of talk about buying locally, growing your own food and supporting farmers’ markets," with where our food comes from. Along with that, we need to produce food in a sustainable way. In other words, I’m not a great believer in industrial farming and processed foods."

That’s all great. And has nothing to do with microbial food safety.

If I Had a Rocket Launcher. If a Tree Falls in a Forest. Lovers in a Dangerous Time.

’80s music really sucked.

Judge for yourself …

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A former professor of food safety and the publisher of barfblog.com, Powell is passionate about food, has five daughters, and is an OK goaltender in pickup hockey. Download Doug’s CV here. Dr. Douglas Powell editor, barfblog.com retired professor, food safety 3/289 Annerley Rd Annerley, Queensland 4103 dpowell29@gmail.com 61478222221 I am based in Brisbane, Australia, 15 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time