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USDA Unveils New Effort To Cut Junk Food In Schools

AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 04.04.2013 | Home
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WASHINGTON -- Most candy, high-calorie drinks and greasy meals could soon be on a food blacklist in the nation's schools. For the first time, the gov...

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Is Shirley Sherrod the Rosa Parks of Our Time?

Sophia A. Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Usda, Tea Party, President Obama, Shirley Sherrod, Tom Vilsak, Georgia Rural Commission, Mark Williams, Robert Gibbs, Naacp, The White House, Politics News
Sophia A. Nelson

The "teachable moment" of Shirley Sherrod is that she, like Rosa Parks has used her quiet strength and grace on national television to win over a nation.

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Revitalize Rural America? First grow some backbone

Eric Holt Gimenez | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Department of Justice, Rural America, Usda, Bust the Trust, Tom Vilsak, Politics News
Eric Holt Gimenez

With Annie Shattuck U.S. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack recently declared a "silent" crisis in rural America. Silent? The American farmers testifying at th...

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Women Farmers in the Developing World

Dan Silverstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Unifem, Developing World, Women in Agriculture, Agra, World Bank, Tom Vilsak, Agribusiness, Micro-Finance, Department of Agriculture, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, African Development Bank, Gender Governance, Women, Grameen Bank, UNDevelopment Program, Food and Agricultural Organization, Sub-Saharan Africa, Agricultural Development, Decade for Women, Beijing Conference, Un, Green Heron Tools, Catherine Bertini, Gender Mainstreaming, Usaid, World Food Program, Dfid, World News
Dan Silverstein

In Sub-Saharan Africa, 80% of agricultural workers are women. According to the World Bank,They raise 90% of the food, but receive only 10% of credit extended for agricultural loans.

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California Leadin'

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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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Sam Stein

Vilsack: McCain Puts Oil First, Not Country

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: McCain Oil, Tom Vilsak, Obama Gang of Ten, Mccain Gang of Ten, Vilsack Mccain, McCain Country, Vilsack Obama, Mccain Big Oil, Energy Policy, Politics News

The Obama campaign and Democratic operatives have been pushing for weeks to paint McCain as a stooge of Big Oil. On Tuesday they tried a new tactic: u...

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