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Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary

You and I Call It Hunger; USDA Calls It Food Insecurity

David Becker | Posted 11.16.2009 | Impact

Read More: USDA Policy, Hunger, Usda, Hunger in the United States, Childhood Nutrition, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Csa, Impact News
David Becker

A USDA report released Monday found the highest rate of food insecurity in 13 years. Almost one in six American households, or 17 million households, are food insecure.

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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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Growing Businesses in African Soil

Dan Silverstein | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business

Read More: G8, Trade Missions, Sub-Saharan Africa, Agricultural Development, Agricultural Policy, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Agribusiness, World Food Programme, UN Office for Partnerships, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Usaid, World Economic Forum, Fao, State Universities, Land Grant Colleges, Business News
Dan Silverstein

It's in our own self-interest to jump start agricultural development with the goal of creating markets for ourselves.

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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
Carl Pope

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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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
Carl Pope

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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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
Warren Holstein

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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Lincolnesque Vision Needed for USDA People's Gardens

Rose Hayden-Smith | Posted 04.17.2009 | Green

Read More: USDA Policy, Abraham Lincoln, Land-Grant-Colleges-Act, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, The Homestead Act, Morrill Act, Victory Gardens, Green Living, Green News
Rose Hayden-Smith

As a result of Lincoln's vision, a national department of agriculture was formed. Now, the USDA should lead the way in reviving a national gardening effort now. And we should all answer the call to service by participating.

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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
Paula Crossfield

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
Wayne Pacelle

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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Montana Food Efforts a Good Model for Hard Times

Rose Hayden-Smith | Posted 02.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Good Food, Montana Food Corps, Local Food Systems, Farm to Cafeteria, Food, Farm-to-School, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Great Depression, Ecotrust, Oregon, Portland Oregon, Green News
Rose Hayden-Smith

Local food systems -- including farm-to-institution programs -- can mean real money for local farmers, local food processors and local/state economies.

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Obama's Choice of Vilsack: AgriBusiness as Usual at USDA?

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 01.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: President Obama, Tom Vilsack, Agriculture, Agribusiness, Obama Picks Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Iowa Governor Agriculture Secretary, Obama's Cabinet, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Barack Obama, Politics News
Andrew Kimbrell

Today, the lukewarm reception Vilsack initially received has turned into real heat as the Obama transition team finds itself in the fire over the former Governor's appointment.

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Maybe Vilsack Won't Suck?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Monsanto, Biofuels, Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, Obama's Cabinet, Denise O'Brien, Agribusiness, Sustainable Agriculture, Ethanol, President Obama, Obama Picks Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Iowa Governor Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Obama Cabinet, Tom Vilsack and Barack Obama, Green News
Kerry Trueman

I honestly don't know what to make of the Vilsack nomination, so I asked Denise O'Brien, the organic farmer who ran for Iowa's Secretary of Agriculture in 2006, to share her invaluable Iowan insights.

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Ethanol and Water

Robert Glennon | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Corn-Based Ethanol, California, Tom Vilsack, Corn, Water, Ethanol Pros and Cons, Environment, Energy Policy Act, Ethanol, Food Prices, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Green News
Robert Glennon

In the case of corn, it takes 2,500 gallons of water to grow enough corn to produce 1 gallon of ethanol. That's right, 2,500 gallons.

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Ethanol: Vilsack, Agriculture Secretary Pick, Is Staunch Biofuel Supporter

New York Times | JEFF ZELENY and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN | Posted 01.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Biofuels, Tom Vilsack, Obama Ethanol, Vilsack Ethanol, Ethanol, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Green News

food assistance in the wake of the economic turmoil. Both Mr. Obama and Mr. Vilsack are regarded as staunch advocates of ethanol and other bio-fuel...

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Tom Vilsack : Secretary Of Agriculture

AP | MIKE GLOVER | Posted 01.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Tom Vilsack, Iowa Governor Agriculture Secretary, President Obama, Obama's Cabinet, Obama Picks Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack and Barack Obama, Politics News

DES MOINES, Iowa — President-elect Barack Obama has selected former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack to become his agriculture secretary, according to Demo...

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