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Black and Indian Farmers Deserve Funds From Settlement

David Person | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Love v. Vilsack, National Black Farmers Association, Black Farmers Settlement, Black Farmers, Usda, Farmers Settlement, Famers, Garcia v. Vilsack, Senate Farmers Payments, Politics News
David Person

With each of its nine failed attempts, the Senate has callously toyed with these farmers, shamefully delaying its opportunity to correct decades of documented discrimination by refusing to rise above its own political machinations.

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Emails Show Shirley Sherrod Fired In Rush Over Edited Video

Los Angeles Times | Peter Nicholas and Kathleen Hennessey | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Department of Agriculture, Shirley Sherrod Andrew Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod Racism, Shirley Sherrod Emails, Shirley Sherrod, Usda, Shirley Sherrod Resignation, Shirley Sherrod USDA, Shirley Sherrod Agriculture Department, Politics News

Obama administration officials knew they did not have all the facts last summer when they rushed to dismiss Shirley Sherrod from the Agriculture Depar...

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A Dozen More Reasons for Supporting Missouri's Prop B

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Proposition B, Dog Breeders, Animal Cruelty, Pets, Ballot Initiative, Puppy Mills, Missouri, Puppies, Usda, Office of Inspector General, Animal Protection, Dogs, Politics News
Wayne Pacelle

I stepped down from a platform a couple of hours ago at the Humane Society of Missouri headquarters in St. Louis to announce the results of The Humane...

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Mom Conquers Cafeteria In Healthy School Lunch Crusade

Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Public Schools, Department of Agriculture, National School Lunch Program, Usda, Education, Jamie Oliver, Recipes for Healthy Kids, School Lunches, Dana Woldlow, Michelle Obama and Childhood Obesity, Video, Impact News

One San Francisco mother is spearheading a campaign to overhaul the lunches that the city's public schools are serving its students, CNN reports. As ...

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Chaos at the Farmers' Market

Elizabeth McVay Greene | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Food, Fresh Food, Usda, Farmers Markets, Healthy Food, Whole Food, Wellness, Healthy Living News
Elizabeth McVay Greene

The number of markets in the U.S. has nearly doubled in the last eight years. They bring us an array of fresh, whole food -- bringing us direct contact between farms and consumers.

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Factory Farmer's Apology Will Not Make Eggs Safer

David Kirby | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Usda, Salmonella, Salmonella in Eggs, Fda, Egg Recall, Tom Coburn, Factory Farm Eggs, Factory Farm Eggs Hearing, Food Safety, Henry Waxman, Jack DeCoster, Food Safety Enhancement Act, Healthy Living News
David Kirby

When it comes to eggs and other animal food products raised in huge, industrialized, often unsanitary factory farms, we need more than apologies: We need inspection, enforcement, and accountability.

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Will Colorado Legislators Help Us Fight for a Better Food System?

Sam Schabacker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Food & Water Watch, Food, Usda, Ranchers, Livestock, Doj, Denver News
Sam Schabacker

We've waited nearly 90 years since the original piece of legislation to prevent corporate control of our food was passed in 1921. It's time for the USDA to finally implement and enforce the legislation.

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Green News Report: September 14, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Organic Farming, Sustainable Design, Fracking, Oil Spill Response, Australia, Renewable Energy, Factory Farms, Pakistan Floods, Obama Administration, Globalization, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Coal, Pipeline, Offshore Drilling, Eggs, Infrastructure, Egg Recall, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Department of Energy, Usda, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, Solar Power, Global Warming, Bp, Walrus, California, Nanotechnology, Pacific Gas & Electric, Pakistan, Corn, Electric Vehicles, Energy Policy, Barack Obama, Arctic, Prop 16, Green Infrastructure, Organic Food, South Korea, BRAD BLOG, Peak Oil, California Prop 23, San Bruno Fire, Green News, Natural Gas, Climate Legislation, Alaska, Ethanol, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, China, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: They found...

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Vilsack Mistakenly Pitched "GMOs-Feed-the-World" to an Audience of Experts--Oops

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: American Academy of Environmental Medicine, Hans Herren, Ge, Secretary Vilsack, Iaastd, Bill Gates, Small Farmers, The International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, GM Food, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Global Population, Usda, Dupont, Monsanto, Biotechnology, Hunger, World Food Prize, Union of Concerned Scientists, GE Food, Local Food Systems, GM Crops, Science and Technology for Development, GE Crops, Feed the World, Syngenta, Agribusiness, Community Food Security Coalition, Gmos, Vilsack, Genetically Modified Foods, Green News
Jeffrey Smith

It is clear to the experts that the current generation of GMOs do not live up to the hype continuously broadcast by biotech companies and their promotional East Coast wing--the federal government.

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Organic Agriculture: Its Origins, and Evolution Over Time

Rebecca Gerendasy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: National Organic Program, Mark Keating, Organic Farming, Nop, Sir Albert Howard, Usda, Organic Food, Organic, Green News
Rebecca Gerendasy

[Editor's note: this is part 1 of a 7 part series examining the history of the organics movement in the US from the unique perspective of an individua...

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Half a Billion Eggs, DeCoster, Factory Farms and Consolidation: The View From Iowa

Dave Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Smithfield Foods, Factory Farming, Tyson Foods, Factory Farms, Salmonella, Usda, Concentration, Local Control, Egg Recall, Fda, Hillandale Farms, Habitual Violator, H.F. 519, Iowa, Consolidation, Wright County Eggs, Jack DeCoster, Home News
Dave Murphy

As massive food safety outbreaks become more common, everyday Americans are starting to take a closer look at what they eat and how it's made.

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E. Coli Outbreak Puts Focus On Meat Oversight

AP | MARTIGA LOHN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: USDA Beef Recall, E. Coli Oversight, E. Coli Outbreak, Usda E. Coli, Beef Recall, Usda Oversight, Usda, E. Coli, E.Coli, Home News

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The first known U.S. outbreak linked to a rare strain of E. coli in ground beef is prompting a fresh look at tougher regulatio...

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Rocky Mountain Natural Meats Recalls

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Usda, Rocky Mountain Natural Meats, Bison Meat, U.S. Department of Agriculture, E. Coli, Denver News

HENDERSON, Colo. — A Colorado company has recalled 66,000 pounds of bison meat sold nationwide after federal agriculture officials linked it to ...

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Meet Your Meat: Why We All Should Care Where Our Burger Comes From

Sam Schabacker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Food & Water Watch, Usda, Denver-Colorado, Tom Vilsack, Livestock, Agriculture, Doj, Food, Department of Justice, Colorado, Denver News
Sam Schabacker

As corporations increasingly own the animals on giant feedlots they control, they are able to suppress the price independent ranchers across the state can get for their livestock.

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Cowboys Versus Packers This Week -- And We're Not Talking Football

Mabel Dobbs | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Western Organization of Resource Councils, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Livestock, Packers and Stockyards Act, Ranching, Antitrust, Cattle, Usda, Meatpacking, Denver News
Mabel Dobbs

A tiny handful of giant meatpackers and processors have been underpaying and unfairly treating livestock producers for decades. These packers control the livestock markets.

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Rice And Crawfish Farmers Paid To Host Birds After Spill

Susan Buchanan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Rice, Agriculture, Environment, Oil, Birds, Wetlands, Endangered Species, Usda, BP Oil Spill, Seafood, Wildlife, Green News
Susan Buchanan

To keep migratory birds away from oily areas along the Gulf Coast, the U.S. Dept of Agriculture is paying rice growers and landowners in Louisiana and other states to flood farms and pastures for habitat.

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Safer Food Comes From a Fair System: Why Denver Citizens Should Care About USDA/DOJ hearings in Ft. Collins This Week

Judy Montero | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Sustainable Agriculture, Food Safety, Department of Justice, Usda, Denver, Egg Recall, Denver News
Judy Montero

The egg recall is an example of why the consolidation of our food supply puts consumers at risk and why I am such a proponent of local, sustainable food producers.

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USDA Plane Crash: Colorado Plane Chartered By USDA Crashes In Pennsylvania Neighborhood

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Agriculture, Wings and Wheels 2LLC, Usda, Lock Haven Pennsylvania, Denver, Plane Crash, Denver News

LOCK HAVEN, Pa. — A small plane chartered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture crashed into a home Monday, killing three people aboard and narr...

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Judge Revokes USDA Approval Of Genetically Modified Sugar Beets, Orders Review

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Court, Sierra Club, Center for Food Safety, Environmental Impact Statement, Roundup, Sugar Beets, Agriculture, Organic Seed Alliance, Genetically Modified Food, Biotech, Usda, Monsanto, Gmo, Home News

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge has revoked the government's approval of genetically altered sugar beets until regulators complete a more thorou...

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Wal-Mart's Rotten Hunger Campaign

Al Norman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Usda, Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart Foundation, Billions in Wastage, Tax Deduction, Rotten Food, Food Banks, Landfill Reduction Program, Business News
Al Norman

Turning trash into tax deductions By Al Norman The Chronicle of Philanthropy declared this week that Wal-Mart was "the most generous" company in Ame...

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Secret Ingredients

Robin Quivers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Usda, Joel Fuhrman, Robin Quivers, Eat to Live, Home News
Robin Quivers

When did we lose the right to know what we are eating? When did food labeling become a con game to make us think we're eating healthy even when we are not? Why is the government assisting those who wish to confuse us?

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Growing Interest in Farmers Markets (Video)

Rebecca Gerendasy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Usda, Michigan, Iowa, Agriculture, Farmers Markets, National Farmers Market Week, Fresh Food, New York, California, Illinois, Ams, Green News
Rebecca Gerendasy

August 1st through the 7th marks National Farmers Market week. The USDA has just released the new number of farmers markets in the U.S. and it's climbed up to 6,132 -- up 16% since last year!

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Dan Froomkin

Limited Test Finds Dispersant Not Adding Toxicity To Oil, But Questions Remain

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Testing, Bp, Sea Turtles, Research, Toxic, Epa, Fda, Gulf Oil Spill, Coast Guard, Chemicals, Crab Larvae, Oil Spill, Shrimp, Noaa, Oil Dispersants, British Petroleum, Toxicity, Usda, Corexit, Tests, Gulf of Mexico, Wildlife, Green News

The combination of oil and dispersants is no more toxic to sea life than oil alone, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday after conduct...

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The Bitter Ironies in USDA's Firing of Shirley Sherrod

Donald Carr | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Shirley Sherrod, Pigford, Black Farmers, Discrimination, Shirley Sherrod Resignation, Usda, Black Farmers Settlement, John Boyd, Politics News
Donald Carr

For all the the subsidy programs' generosity toward those least in need, it has been impossible to bring closure to black farmers victimized by past USDA discrimination.

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Monsanto: The World's Poster Child for Corporate Manipulation and Deceit - Part 9

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Iaastd, Secretary Vilsack, Small Farmers, The International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Monsanto, Consumer Culture, Global Population, Usda, Biotechnology, Union of Concerned Scientists, Local Food Systems, Feed the World, Agribusiness, Community Food Security Coalition, Genetically Modified Foods, Dupont, Ge, American Academy of Environmental Medicine, Gmos, Hans Herren, Vilsack, Supermarket News, Bill Gates, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, GM Food, Natural Foods, Syngenta, Hunger, World Food Prize, Consumer Trends, GE Food, GM Crops, Science and Technology for Development, GE Crops, Green News
Jeffrey Smith

http://www.responsibletechnology.org/blog/32 When Forbes magazine declared Monsanto as the Company of the Year for 2009, millions of surprised people...

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