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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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Bring In the Organic Police

David Bronner | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green

Read More: National Organic Program, Dr-Bronners-Magic-Soaps, Organic Products, Organic Consumers ASsociation, Dr. Emmanuel Bronner, USDA Policy, Organic Cosmetics, Organic, Nop, Green News
David Bronner

Just as America woke up to Wall Street abuses in the housing bubble, we are set to see the "organic" personal care bubble burst as well.

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E. Coli: Woman Paralyzed After Severe Food Poisoning; The Unsafe System, Meat

The New York Times | Michael Moss | Posted 10.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Brain Damage, Meat Processors, Food, Agriculture, Regulation, E. Coli, Grocers, Usda, Food Poisoning, Red Meet, Hamburger, E Coli, Severe Food Poisoning, Beef Processors, Health, Ground Beef, Beef, O157:H7, Cargill, Business, Restaurants, Frozen Hamburgers, Burger, Cattle, Ecoli, Food Safety, Costco, Bad Hamburger, Trimmings, Paralyzed, USDA Policy, Food Safety Regulation, Green News

Stephanie Smith, a children's dance instructor, thought she had a stomach virus. The aches and cramping were tolerable that firstday, and she finished...

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Snack Attack: U.S. Schools Should Rethink Vending Machines Right Now!

Susan Weissman | Posted 08.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Public Schools, USDA Policy, Obama Nominee Kevin Concannon, Healthy Snacks, Vending Machines in Schools, Nutrition, School Funding, Living News
Susan Weissman

it just doesn't make sense to encourage a child to run a soccer field with the "empty calories" of Doritos in her stomach. Some schools around the U.S. are addressing that health contradiction.

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In Schools, the Chance to Change What Our Children Eat

Jilly Stephens | Posted 08.01.2009 | New York

Read More: New York Schools, Nyc, USDA Policy, School Food, New York City Harvest, School Lunches, Usda, City Harvest, New York, New York News
Jilly Stephens

Many students are ashamed to be singled out as eating free or reduced-price meals. Congress must vote to make school meals universal and provide free meals to all students at eligible schools.

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Guns, Germs, and Squeals

Joseph LeDoux | Posted 06.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Farmer's Markets, Brain, Brains, Swine Flu, Agribusiness, Rodeo, Green Living, Childhood Memories, USDA Policy, Memory, Cajun Food, Living News
Joseph LeDoux

I learned what a brain was by digging bullets out of them as a kid in my father's meat market. That was before mad cow disease, when most people thought cow brains were a tasty delight.

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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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The Kindest Cut

Michael Markarian | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nuisance, Usda, Louisiana, Animals, Tom Vilsack, Bobby Jindal, Agriculture, Wildlife, Coyotes, Animal Cruelty, Animal Rights, Non-Lethal Predator Deterents, Predator Control Program, USDA Policy, Connie Morella, Predator Killing, Farmer Compensation, Peter DeFazio, Steel-Jawed Legholds, Animal Rights Legislation, Non-Lethal Weaponry, Charlie Bass, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Politics News
Michael Markarian

When it comes to human-wildlife conflicts, I am quite sure we can do better at the state and federal levels than the programs built around large-scale killing of wildlife.

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Abusive Slaughterhouse Billed $67 Million For Recall

AP | Posted 04.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Meat Recall, Department of Agriculture, National School Lunch Program, Usda, Slaughterhouse, Westland/Hallmark Meat Co, Downer Cows, USDA Policy, Beef Recall, Beef Recall 2008, Business News

CHINO, Calif. — The federal government said Thursday it has billed a California slaughterhouse more than $67 million for expenses associated wit...

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