On Friday, in an unprecedented move with the USDA, the Department of Justice will launch an investigation into the farm business.
Produced by HuffPost's Citizen Reporting Team On February 25, 2010, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) confirmed a recent case of bovine spo...
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Op-ed cross-posted Houston Chronicle Rachel Kimbro & Elizabeth Rigby March 5, 2010 In a series of high-profile events over the past few weeks, firs...
The star witness at yesterday's Congressional hearing before the House Oversight Committee's Domestic Policy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Dennis Kuci...
It's impossible to have a conversation with Jon Bansen without asking about his favorite cow Rosie. She's now 12 years old (she was 9 in the film), a...
Discrimination of minority farmers by employees at the United States Department of Agriculture may be more pervasive than originally thought.
Originally published on The Green Fork. I've been working on a broad range of food and environmental issues since 2005, but food politics became espe...
The Center for Food Safety (CFS) sued USDA on behalf of farmers and others regarding its approval of Monsanto's Roundup Ready alfalfa.
Environmental and food safety advocates are cheering the attention that the use of genetically-engineered plants will get in an upcoming Monsanto appeal, but worry that the USDA will short-circuit the appeals process.
The tea industry has an ugly history of deforesting, damaging biodiversity, and using pesticides. To promote more enlightened sipping, we asked five experts to name their preferred brew.
Your Food Environment Atlas is a new interactive web tool that allows users to find local farmers' markets, farms, and other local producers. But it g...
When I became Agriculture Secretary in 1995, I was scarcely aware of a long, painful chapter in the history of American civil rights. Tom Vilsack announced on Thursday that it will finally be closed.
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As organic food has grown in popularity so too have the size of organic dairies and farms in this country. And in the last ten years questions have be...
Causing no end of difficulties in our national discourse is the steadfast belief held by both the right and the left that everything is either right o...
Kids have gotten bigger recently. In fact, according to the CDC, obesity rates have tripled in the past 30 years with nearly 20 percent of children aged 6-11 and 18 percent for those aged 12-19.
Safe food is a social justice issue that our taxpayer dollars could be used to support. Perhaps it's time to invite the USDA into the health care debate.
Extending the growing season to year-round in a Northern climate, and using only renewable energy to do so, Minnesota organic farmer Steven Schwen, ex...
Tonight as the President speaks I'll be listening and hoping that the President agrees that the best way through these times is by pursuing opportunity for all.
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.
CHICAGO — Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and fallout...
"President Obama has pledged to end childhood hunger by 2015." Talk about an ambitious goal!
OWASSO, Okla. — National Steak and Poultry is voluntarily recalling about 248,000 pounds of beef it said might be contaminated with a strain of E. c...
WASHINGTON — With more Americans going hungry than ever before, the Agriculture Department is concerned that dozens of states aren't adequately ...
