WASHINGTON — Food stamp recipients are ripping off the government for millions of dollars by illegally selling their benefit cards for cash &nda...
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 04.20.2012
The impact of more cuts on children and families who now receive a nutritionally adequate diet from SNAP would be devastating. Where is the justice in a vote to protect wealthy farmers over hungry children?
Steven Kurlander | Posted 04.23.2012
While most Americans spend about 10% of their family's budget on groceries, about one-third of them actually spend closer to 20%, so large increases in grocery prices means less spending on consumer goods, which account for a great portion of our economic activity.
AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 03.26.2012
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The first major nutritional overhaul of school meals in more than 15 years means most offerings – including the always p...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.16.2012
On Tuesday, Congress decided that pizza is a vegetable. I have to imagine that this news instilled confusion in many Americans, as many Americans are: familiar with pizza; familiar with vegetables; and sane. But, according to the geniuses in Washington, pizza is a vegetable for the purposes of determining what goes into public school lunches by virtue of the fact that pizza traditionally includes a schmear of tomato paste. And if you're wondering how it came to pass that Congress arrived at the conclusion that pizza could count as a serving of vegetables for this reason, wonder no more! Congress was guided along this path by lobbyists. And lobbyists can do all sorts of things, by magic!
AP | By MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 01.15.2012
WASHINGTON -- Who needs leafy greens and carrots when pizza and french fries will do? In an effort many 9-year-olds will cheer, Congress wants pizza ...
AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 01.14.2012
WASHINGTON — Congress is unraveling the Obama administration's attempt to make school lunches healthier, pushing back against Agriculture Depart...
AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 11.15.2011
WASHINGTON — Consumers paid more for a range of goods and services last month, pushing up inflation and squeezing Americans' purchasing power. ...
AP | By MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 09.20.2011
WASHINGTON -- The Agriculture Department wants consumers to know when there's less chicken in their chicken. A proposed rule aimed at food companies ...
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 09.04.2011
Spiking food prices could mean that even some of the employed soon won't be able to bring home the bacon. The price of pork bellies, that part of t...
Roll Call | Janie Lorber and Annie Shuppy | Posted 08.21.2011
When it comes to cost-saving amendments, Rep. Paul Broun can't be beat, even if he rarely wins....
Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011
At the end of a long painful week, Shirley Sherrod's been offered a new job with the USDA's Office of Civil Rights and Community Outreach. She's still considering, though, and who can blame her?
Huffington Post | Adam J. Rose | Posted 05.25.2011
***UPDATED*** 7/20/10, 6:49PM Shirley Sherrod says that she was forced to resign from her position at the USDA after her comments were taken out of c...
The New York Times | ANDREW POLLACK | Posted 05.25.2011
Federal regulators gave clearance Wednesday for a large and controversial field test of genetically engineered trees planned for seven states stretchi...
Posted 05.25.2011
*Scroll down for a CBS news video on the 15 million-pound Spaghettios recall. (Update: 6/18/10, 12:50pm) (AP) WASHINGTON — Campbell Soup Co. is...
AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Celebrity chef Rachael Ray says she has a big mouth. And she used it Tuesday to ask lawmakers for more money to improve school lunc...
Posted 05.25.2011
After some of the most profitable years in a generation, American farmers have seen their incomes dwindle as the recession begins to weigh on food pri...
AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Saying global warming poses unprecedented threats to Americans' way of life, four of President Barack Obama's top environmental and...
Wall Street Journal | Justin Sheck | Posted 05.25.2011
Intercollegiate meat judging has been a serious business since it started 82 years ago. About 40 colleges will compete in six sanctioned competitions ...
New York Times | Andrew Martin | Posted 05.25.2011
Late last month, the Agriculture Department announced its 20th recall of beef this year because of contamination with a toxic strain of the bacterium ...
AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 05.24.2012