Tom Vilsack

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Is Obama Ready to Take on Factory Farming?

David Kirby | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Usda, Socially Responsible Agriculture Project, Humane Society, Tom Vilsack, Factory Farms, Obama, Pollution, Cafos, Eric Holder, Clean Water Act, Green News

Are animal factories here to stay? Whatever the Obama team decides to do -- or not do -- could have a huge impact on the way we raise food animals in America for decades to come.

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H1N1 Found in First US Commercial Swine Herd - Keep Your Eye on Factory Farms, China, and the Birds

David Kirby | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Avian Flu, Tom Vilsack, Indiana, Swine Flu, Factory Farm, Cafo, H1N1 Influenza, Usda, China, Living News

Though it would appear that people can infect pigs with H1N1, it is not clear whether live pigs can infect people. For now, officials are far more worried about the former than the latter.

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Vermont Slaughterhouse Closed For Inhumane Treatment Of Calves (VIDEO)

AP | DAVE GRAM | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green

MONTPELIER, Vt. — A Vermont slaughterhouse ordered closed Friday after video showed calves kicked, shocked and cut while conscious had its opera...

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The Obama Administration and Food, Year One

Paula Crossfield | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Pesticides, Usda, Michael Pollan, Kathleen Merrigan, Research, Tom Vilsack, President Obama, Cafo, Big Ag, Food Safety, Food Policy, Technology, E. Coli, Healthcare, Barack Obama, Green News

A year after Obama's election, advocates hoping for deep improvements in our food system can point to only a few successes, while other policies that could lead to food insecurity are brewing in back rooms.

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Big Barack Bummer

Sarah Newman | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

It's disappointing that the Obama Administration is not providing the visionary leadership on agriculture, like it is in some many other policy areas.

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Groups Rally To End Tongass Forest Timber Sales

AP | MARY PEMBERTON | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Tongass Forest, Tongass Logging, Tom Vilsack, Protest, Logging, Alaska, Deforestation, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Forests, Green News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Nearly a dozen conservation groups are appealing to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to put a stop to two timber sales...

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A New Direction on Research at the USDA? The Experts Weigh In

Paula Crossfield | Posted 10.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Research, Sustainable Food, Tom Vilsack, Agriculture, Food Safety, Food Security, Csrees, Nifa, Green News

After Tom Vilsack's speech, I've reached out to some key thinkers on agriculture to find out what they would like the USDA's new research body, NIFA, to be focusing on. Here are their answers.

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"Local": A Word Worth Saving!

Mike Callicrate | Posted 09.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Buying Local, Local Food, Local Foods, Food Inc., Fresh, Buying Locally, Tom Vilsack, Green News

Most don't realize how dramatically food quality has declined under the industrial food system. They, too, often hide behind the false and misleading marketing provided by their food service company.

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Vilsack Indicates Openness To Colorado Exception To Roadless Rule

The Colorado Independent | John Tomasic | Posted 09.29.2009 | Denver

Read More: Bill Clinton, Colorado Roadless, Hayman Fire, Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, Wildfires, George W. Bush, National Parks, Denver News

DENVER -- U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Monday gave the strongest indication to date that the draft of Colorado's roadless rule, which all...

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Letter Urges Vilsack To Protect Forests

Posted 09.17.2009 | Impact

Read More: Heritage Forests Campaign, Tom Vilsack, Roadless Area Conservation Rule, Colorado, Impact News

The Heritage Forests Campaign urges environmentalists to sign the following letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. It encourages his him to u...

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Putting the Keystone Back on Our Wildlands Legacy

Carl Pope | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Logging, National Forests, Tom Vilsack, Roadless Rule, Logging-Rules, Obama Picks Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Deforestation, Forests, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Green News

Vilsack acknowledged for the first time that climate change and fragmentation are a serious threat to the health of our forests.

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Wildfire Outbreaks Spark Debate Over Roads In National Parks

The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 09.11.2009 | Denver

Read More: National Park Fires, National Park Roads, Secretary of Agriculture, Bill Ritter, Tom Vilsack, Colorado Roadless Rule, Colorado Fires, Denver News

VAIL -- A small but scary wildfire that broke out in the national forest above West Vail Friday afternoon perfectly underscored the ongoing debate bet...

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African Food Security? USAID Has Used Taxpayer Money to Fund GMOs Abroad Since 1991

Paula Crossfield | Posted 09.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Usaid, Kenya, Africa, Tom Vilsack, Health, Environment, Food Safety, Genetically Modified Food, Food Policy, Hillary Clinton, Gmos, Foreign Policy, Food Security, Iaastd, Kari, Green News

Africans can look to India to see what a future of relying on biotech seeds looks like. There, a depleted water table, poisoned waterways and farmer suicides have been the result of the first Green Revolution.

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Real Progress, 30 Years in the Making

Angela Glover Blackwell | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Healthy Food, Michael Nutter, Produce, Adolfo Carrion, Tom Vilsack, Supermarkets, Obama, Philadelphia, Policylink, Urban Affairs, Politics News

For the first time, I can see that the fight for equitable food access is winnable.

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Obama Administration Approves First Roadless Logging Contract In Alaska's Tongass National Forest

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 08.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Tongass Forest, Logging, Tongass Logging, Clearcutting, Video, National Forest Logging, Alaska, Tom Vilsack, Alaska Logging, Green News

This week, the Obama administration approved the sale of timber in a roadless national forest in Alaska. The Tongass National Forest is a 17 million a...

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Cleaning Up Our Forests

Carl Pope | Posted 07.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Wildfires, Forests, Tom Vilsack, Environment, Forest Service, Roadless Areas, Thomas Vilsack, Green News

We've spent $2 billion since 2000 without reducing the number of forest acres burned, homes destroyed, or firefighters killed. President Obama's new forest chief is badly needed.

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Sorry, Congress: Change Can't Wait

Carl Pope | Posted 06.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Roadless Rule, Sonia Sotomayor, Tom Vilsack, Obama Administration, Clean Energy, Green Energy, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Forest Service, Green News

It clear that the Obama administration doesn't intend to let business as usual at the Forest Service threaten our remaining pristine public forests.

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Food and Farming in Obama's First 100 Days

Michael Pollan | Posted 06.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Michelle Obama, Michael Pollan, President Obama, Organic Food, Crop Subsidies, Sustainable Food, Tom Vilsack, White House Garden, Nutrition, Agriculture, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Obama's First 100 Days, Gardening, 100 Days, Green News

Perhaps the most encouraging action so far has come from the East Wing, where Michelle Obama has been speaking out about the importance of real, fresh food, home cooking and gardening.

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The Doctor With A Dirty Prescription To Purge Our Bodies, And Our Planet

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Usda, Organic Farming, White House Kitchen Garden, Tom Vilsack, Rodale Institute, J. I. Rodale, Sustainable Agriculture, Dr. Tim LaSalle, Organic, Green News

Until we start celebrating earth with a small "e" everyday, all the compact fluorescent light bulbs and reusable shopping bags and hybrid cars and stainless steel water bottles in the world won't cut it.

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Aw, Nuts: The FDA Pistachio Scare Nightmare

Warren Holstein | Posted 05.02.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Kathleen Sebelius, Tom Vilsack, Health and Human Services, Salmonella, Fda, Pistachios-Salmonella, Pistachios, E. Coli, Diarrhea, Contamination, Sarah Palin, International Space Station, Usda, Pistachios-Recall, Bacteria, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Politics, Health, Comedy News

It seems that the FDA done did it again! Or didn't do it... what they're supposed be doing, that is, mainly regulate and prevent widespread contamination of our food supply from harmful microbes and bacteria.

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Kathleen Merrigan, Vilsack's Number Two, Is A Sustainable Food Pro

gourmet.com | Photograph by | Posted 04.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Usda, Farming, Kathleen Merrigan, Eating Matters, Tom Vilsack, Sustainable Food, Food, Green News

What a difference a few months make. Advocates of sustainable agriculture are now ecstatic about President Obama's decision to appoint Kathleen Merrig...

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The Battle Over Sliced Apples: New York Senators Gillibrand and Aubertine Take Secretary Vilsack to Task on School Food

Paula Crossfield | Posted 04.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Processed Food, Secretary of Agriculture, Farm Bill, Food Access, Tom Vilsack, New Administration, School Food, Food Policy, Usda, Kirsten Gillibrand, Darrel Aubertine, Value-Added, Green News

No, Gillibrand and Aubertine aren't lobbying for the Corn Refiners Association -- they are pushing for local food.

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Shooting the Bird of Peace into Pieces

Michael Markarian | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hunting, Animals, Iowa Govenor Chet Culver, Tom Vilsack, Dick Dearden, Mourning Doves, Iowa, Politics News

There's simply no good reason to legalize dove hunting. Doves are not overpopulated, they don't damage property or cause nuisance problems, and there's no management justification.

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Change We Can Believe In, or a Second Helping of the Same-Old?

Paula Crossfield | Posted 02.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Agenda, Obama, Usda, Tom Vilsack, Cafo, New Administration, Sustainable Food, Obama Inauguration, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Barack Obama Inauguration, Tom Vilsack and Barack Obama, Sustainable, Sustainability, Food, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Green News

I hate to put a damper on your inaugural enthusiasm, but the time to act is now if we hope to at least have someone with an interest in building a better food system at the table.

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California Leadin'

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: California, Tom Vilsack, Tom Vilsak, The New York Times, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Proposition 2, Obama Picks Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Animals, Tom Vilsack and Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Michael Pollan, New York Times, Sustainability, Nicholas Kristof, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Senate Agriculture Committee, Politics News

There are problems with animal agriculture that still need attention, including painful mutilation of animals without anesthesia, the rampant use of antibiotics on factory farms, and waste generated by these operations.

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