Al Rosas
Al Rosas, CCP is a Floridan organic farmer. Nicknamed and trademarked as The Organic Chef, he runs the Rosas Farms in Marion County, which produces and sells all grass-fed and organic foods. The farm sells its products at the farm market and through Sysco and instructs hundreds of other organic farmers all over the United States on how to produce their own organic foods under the "Rosas Farms" label.
In 2008, Rosas is publishing a cookbook of organic recipes, titled The Organic Chef. In January this year, he was awarded the Culinary Entrepreneur of the Year award by the Cordon D'Or for his innovation in producing and marketing organic foods.
"FIrst (sic) of all your mediocre photo is all over the internet. You go ahead and seek further action, if you have time to do that you probably are still looking for work. Don't threaten me and I'd govern yourself accordingly when calling people names and making allegations or you might find yourself on the other end of a libel suit you petulant starving artist." ~ Erin Rosas
The photograph was removed from the website after they were informed that they were being served a DMCA notice. However, several other photographs, including an eggplant parmesan dish, a pork chop creation & cinnamon raisin brown rice pudding dish, which remained on the website, were exposed as having been taken from other foodbloggers' websites.
This incident, most notably due to the controversial reply by Erin Rosas, has generated considerable interest online and several news sites have reported it via web articles and editors' blogs.
AOL published an article in February 2009 on their popular food-related news blog, Slashfood, entitled "Food Bloggers Fight Content Thieves" describing the increase in number of plagiarism issues that food bloggers face on the internet with specific references to the alleged content theft by Chef Al Rosas.
The reports are not limited to the US. In Australia, a blog entry on also referred to this incident.
In 2008, Rosas is publishing a cookbook of organic recipes, titled The Organic Chef. In January this year, he was awarded the Culinary Entrepreneur of the Year award by the Cordon D'Or for his innovation in producing and marketing organic foods.
"FIrst (sic) of all your mediocre photo is all over the internet. You go ahead and seek further action, if you have time to do that you probably are still looking for work. Don't threaten me and I'd govern yourself accordingly when calling people names and making allegations or you might find yourself on the other end of a libel suit you petulant starving artist." ~ Erin Rosas
The photograph was removed from the website after they were informed that they were being served a DMCA notice. However, several other photographs, including an eggplant parmesan dish, a pork chop creation & cinnamon raisin brown rice pudding dish, which remained on the website, were exposed as having been taken from other foodbloggers' websites.
This incident, most notably due to the controversial reply by Erin Rosas, has generated considerable interest online and several news sites have reported it via web articles and editors' blogs.
AOL published an article in February 2009 on their popular food-related news blog, Slashfood, entitled "Food Bloggers Fight Content Thieves" describing the increase in number of plagiarism issues that food bloggers face on the internet with specific references to the alleged content theft by Chef Al Rosas.
The reports are not limited to the US. In Australia, a blog entry on also referred to this incident.
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