Another AgChat session is in the can. This time the focus was on food safety. You can follow back through the conversation via Twitter. Here’s the questions that were posed.
Q1 via @agriblogger Is it reasonable to expect that government can guarantee #food safety? #farm #agchat
Q2 Via @TruffleMedia What will Food Safety Modernization Act ’09 do for consumers and producers, if passed? http://bit.ly/117Y44 #agchat
Q3 via @KateOnline What are some of the biggest misconceptions about the way food is produced/grown/raised & safety of that food? #agchat
Q4 What are key resources for the consumer to learn about food safety? #agchat http://twubs.com/agchat
Q5 via @KateOnline Do you feel consumers perceive certain products as safer? Organic/Local/Conventional? #agchat
Q6 via @KateOnline What #ag and #farm practices do you see or use that improve #food safety? #agchat
Q7 – the grand finale: What is the one executable idea you can take away from this evening’s fiery #food convo? #agchat
The online session was fast paced at times as comments and ideas were proposed from a wide array of people. According to our moderator we had 1200 tweets in less than2 hours with 150+ different contributors. Over the last 3 months we’ve had over 400 unique contributors.
Thanks again to Michele Payn-Knoper for moderating. Also feel free to check out AgChat on Facebook.