A Cure for Vile Hospital Food?

[From Mother Jones] MINDFUL MEATS IS a boutique beef company with a creative, if somewhat off-putting raison d'etre: making good use of spent dairy cows. The older animals, no longer useful for milk, meet just about every standard of sustainability, raised on grassy pastures, certified organic, and unexposed to antibiotics, hormones, or GMOs. Raised and butchered in Marin and Sonoma counties, they're shipped just a short distance over the Golden Gate Bridge to some of San Francisco's trendiest upscale eateries and butchers. Oh, and also to the Bay Area's third-largest hospital.

But that's weird. Doesn't hospital food have a rep for being bland and institutional—or, as a less-polite reporter might put it, for "sucking?"

It does. And that's what Stanford Health Care hopes to change...(Continue reading)