Tag: USDA
Trump administration releases new rules on school nutrition standards, rolls back...
Last week marked the first of many rollbacks the Trump administration and the USDA are planning on the way the USDA administers school lunch programs.
USDA releases final GMO labeling standards
"Most studies have shown that consumers expect highly processed ingredients to be labeled and many food manufacturers want to provide that information."
‘Mass starvation plan:’ Trump USDA to push work requirements for food...
"This regulation blatantly ignores the bipartisan farm bill that the president is signing today and disregards over 20 years of history giving states flexibility to request waivers based on local job conditions."
A new economic model for the South: Ditch corporate welfare and...
“With modest increases in public investment in technical support and start-up capital … cooperatives could greatly expand into new markets, employ significant numbers of people, and contribute healthier food to their communities.”
Pressure is on the Senate to reject Trump’s nominee for chief...
"We urge the Senate to listen to the American people and reject this pesticide industry loyalist who will put corporate profits over farmers, public health, and our environment."
Trump’s proposed budget slashes SNAP funding and ends recipients’ ability to...
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps, will no longer be in monetary form and instead recipients will receive "USDA Foods package."
U.S. bans Brazilian beef imports
The United States Department of Agriculture suspended fresh beef imports from Brazil until the country “takes corrective action” to address “public health concerns, sanitary conditions, and animal health issues” in its cattle supply chain.
Trump’s expected pick for top USDA scientist is not a scientist
Sam Clovis likely to be named undersecretary of the USDA department that manages research on everything from climate change to nutrition.
Race, history, and the #ScienceMarch
“People from all parts of the political spectrum should be alarmed by [Trump’s] efforts to deny scientific progress.”
USDA to reimburse farmers in order to expand organic farming
The USDA hopes by making these changes we will see an increase in participation in the National Organic Program.
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Nearly all plant-based meat alternatives Contain mycotoxins
The researchers found that 100 percent of the plant-based meat substitutes contained at least one of 19 different types of mycotoxins, often showing high "co-occurrence" (multiple toxins in a single product).
Supreme Court rulings and new Southern maps intensify battle over Black voting power before...
A series of redistricting fights in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia is reshaping the struggle over voting rights and congressional control as critics warn that recent Supreme Court decisions are accelerating the erosion of protections for Black voters.
The electric car is the only winner in the latest Iran war
The Hormuz Choke Point and the Twilight of Petroleum.
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.