Article: New pasteurization regulations have raw food growers heated

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[interesting that this article came out the day before the deadline

(12/3/07) for offering comments to the USDA on the greens issue]

 

No almond joy

New pasteurization regulations have raw food growers heated

 

By Anna Belle Peevey I Correspondent

12/02/2007 07:16:14 AM PST

 

SAN FRANCISCO - Vinicio Penate crunches down on a piece of dehydrated

almond bread at Cafe Gratitude's central kitchen in San Francisco, on

a break from his shift as manager. He is deliberate, working over

each bite.

 

Penate says that for him, eating a raw almond is like eating the

almond tree.

 

``All that strength, all that force, all that information, all the

genetics,'' he said, staring at a container of almonds. ``They're all

there. They're just untouched.''

 

Why then, Penate wonders, would the United States Department of

Agriculture want to change that?

 

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