Tag: usda
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US Farmers Flood Fields With Dangerous Poison to Fight Monsanto Superweeds
You’re a farmer. Season after season, you watch your fields being taken over by Monsanto superweeds, which are resistant to the herbicide Roundup. What are you going to do? You’re locked in.
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From the Dept of Good News: Farmers’ Markets Keep Growing
from civileats.com: The worst drought since the 1950s continues to wreak havoc on America’s bread basket, shriveling up commodity corn and soybean crops and driving up food prices. But there is heartening news from the local agricultural sector: Farmers’ markets are booming. Last week, the USDA released its annual update of the National Farmers Market…
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The CBS Eye Looks Inside Plum Island’s Secret Labs
Video: Plumbing the mysteries of Plum Island from inquisitr.com: For the first time in many years, members of the press got inside the U.S. Government’s secret labs at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center. CBS News reported that the island, which is controlled by the Department of Homeland Security, has labs staffed by scientists from…
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20 Years Later, The Biotech Brigade Marches On…
The Obama administration itself has kept lock-step by appointing no less than five high profile colonels from the “Biotech Brigade.”
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Junk Food Not Cheaper Than Healthy Food
It doesn’t cost any more to eat healthy food than it does to eat junk food, a government study found, casting doubt on the popular belief that many people can’t afford healthful foods.
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At Disney World’s ‘Living with the Land’ exhibit, teaching children about GMO agriculture is a fun activity for the whole family
from naturalnews.com: Biotechnology has made its way to “the happiest place on earth,” with an exhibit at Walt Disney World’s EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) theme park now featuring genetically-modified (GM) fruits and vegetables, some of which are shaped like Mickey Mouse’s head. According to several different reports, the agricultural exhibit, called Living with…
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New EO to Eliminate GMO Trade Barriers
The United States, inc., in collusion with the biotech industry, which is headed by none other than Monsanto et. al., is successfully conducting a food war with the nations around it.
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#BingeAndPurge: Poses, Promises, Cage-Free Change and more
Ron Wyden’s nuclear field trip: Fukushima poses ongoing danger* Video: Wyden Discusses a Recent Onsite Tour of Fukushima* 6 Portland neighborhood health food stores that put localvores first* Growing Hope by Growing Cities* Seed Lady Network Goes Live!* State Threatens to Shut Down Nutrition Blogger* We’re all playing the Hunger Games in real life* Food…
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USDA holding press briefing as mad cow rumor roils market
from reuters: The United States Department of Agriculture was holding a press conference on Tuesday as rumors that a case of mad cow disease was discovered in California sent live cattle futures tumbling. The spokesman declined to comment on the topic of the briefing. The contents of the briefing are embargoed until 3 p.m. ET.…
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World’s cheapest food in USA; At what cost?
from foodfreedomgroup.com: In 2010, Americans spent just over 9 percent of their disposable income on food (5.5 percent at home and 3.9 percent eating out). This is a dramatically lower percentage [than that] spent just decades ago in the early 1960s, when over 17 percent was spent on food, and even more of a “bargain”…
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Debate Heats Up Over Poultry Inspection Proposal
from foodsafetynews.com: Critics say privatization puts consumers at risk; FSIS says modernization will prevent illnesses, save tax dollars. If you listen to both critics and proponents of a new U.S. Department of Agriculture proposal to expand a pilot poultry inspection program, you might wonder if they’re talking about the same thing. In January, the USDA’s…
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USDA 2012 Food Assistance to Benefit Nearly 10 Million Worldwide
from usda.gov: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that international food assistance in fiscal year 2012 will benefit more than 9.7 million people worldwide under USDA’s Food for Progress and McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition programs. “These two international food assistance programs are important tools in the U.S. effort to…
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Agricultural Markets Still Unbalanced and Unfair, Farmers Say
A handful of companies still control huge portions of livestock, dairy, and poultry markets, they said, and farmers continue to face abusive and unfair treatment.
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1/26 Binge & Purge: Lunch Change, Single Strains
32 million reasons to cheer the USDA: School Meals Changes to Fight Obesity // First Lady visits Tampa grocery store // U.S. food-stamp program shouldn’t be political toy // Why You Absolutely Must Personally Treat Your Own Water // Video: Bill Gates Talks About Modified Foods // Audio Satire: Virulent Strain Of Soy Flu Traced…
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usda targets stores in food stamp trafficking
from ap: The U.S. Department of Agriculture is upgrading technology used to combat a swindle of the nation’s $64.7 billion food stamp program that diverts as much as $330 million annually. The agency last month awarded a 10-year contract worth up to $25 million to a Fairfax, Va. company, SRA International Inc., to improve monitoring…