{"id":114240,"date":"2018-03-30T11:29:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T15:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=114240"},"modified":"2018-08-17T16:05:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T20:05:37","slug":"bates-in-the-news-march-30-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2018\/03\/30\/bates-in-the-news-march-30-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates in the News: March 30, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jesse Laflamme \u201900<\/a><\/h3>\n
What makes eggs organic depends on whom you ask \u2014 PBS NewsHour<\/i><\/h5>\n

After the Trump administration rolled back a new definition of what an organic egg is, PBS NewsHour<\/i> interviewed Jesse Laflamme \u201900<\/a>, CEO of Pete and Gerry\u2019s Organic Eggs.<\/p>\n

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Jesse Laflamme ’00, CEO of Pete & Gerry’s Eggs, photographed in 2004. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

The new rule, created late in the Obama administration, would have required organic egg producers to give their hens access to soil. Now, producers can continue to label eggs as \u201corganic\u201d if hens merely have access to sunlight, such as in a porch-like enclosure.<\/p>\n

The much-looser definition \u201cis just so misaligned with what consumers expect of organic,\u201d Laflamme said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to damage the organic seal and not just in the egg category. I\u2019m talking about all types of organic products. This is a fundamental issue of consumer expectation of organic and trust.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pamela Dubin<\/a><\/h3>\n
Hartford Jewish Film Festival is a homecoming \u2014 Hartford Courant
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Actress and alumna Pamela Dubin<\/a>, a native of West Hartford, Conn., returned home for a screening of Abe and Phil\u2019s Last Poker Game<\/i><\/a>, featured in the Mandell JCC Hartford Jewish Film Festival.<\/p>\n

In the film,\u00a0in which she stars alongside Paul Sorvino and the late Martin Landau, Dubin plays a nursing-home volunteer who grows close to Landau\u2019s character, Abe, who is a resident of the home, as is Sorvino\u2019s character, Phil.<\/p>\n

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The official trailer of Abe and Phil’s Last Poker Game, co-starring alumna Pamela Dubin:<\/em><\/p>\n