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Pink Slime Goes Back To School Across The U.S.
In the Spring of 2012, parents around the U.S. found out that the USDA buys around 7 million pounds of a lean finely textured beef product—better known as “pink slime”—for use in the national school...
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Organic Free Range Chicken Might Not Be So Free After All
While the “free range” label has allowed many consumers to choose eggs that come from chickens more ethically and humanely raised, a recently proposed policy could change all of that. As part of the...
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Misleading Expiration Labels Contribute To Food Waste
Just days ago we learned that food waste is the third biggest source of climate changing C02 emissions. Now, a report from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) points to misleading expiration...
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Will Chinese Chicken End Up in U.S. School Lunches?
Bettina Siegel, of the blog The Lunch Tray, is once again at the center of the discussion about better quality food in U.S. school lunches. This time she’s questioning whether Chinese chicken should...
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Unregulated Sale Of Monsanto's GMO Corn, Canola Approved By USDA
While the rest of the country braces for a government shut-down, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) quietly approved three new biotechnology...
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9 Ways The Government Shutdown Affects The U.S. Food Supply
Mainstream media has been using National Park and Monument closures as examples of the fallout of the government shutdown because they make nice photo ops, but if the shutdown persist for much longer,...
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Virginia Schools Ditch All-Beef Burgers, Opt For Patties With 26 Additives
After switching to burgers made with 100 percent beef in the cafeteria, schools in Virginia have backtracked. The decision was made to replace the beef burgers with patties containing 26 different...
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USDA Plan to Speed Up Poultry Processing Could Increase Bird Abuse
In U.S. poultry slaughterhouses, nearly 1 million chicken and turkeys are unintentionally boiled alive each year. Why? According to the Agriculture Department it’s because fast-moving processing lines...
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USDA Could Soon Resume Horse Slaughter for Human Consumption
A federal judge is ruling in regard to the horse meat export businesses. The ruling means that “horse slaughter for human consumption could resume shortly under USDA inspection for the first time...
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USDA Plans To Certify Meat Without Growth-Enhancing Drugs
The USDA recently announced a new meat certification program. Under the new scheme, livestock producers will be permitted to market their products with a special “Never Fed Beta Agonists” label. Beta...
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USDA Releases Almost Final Ruling on Snack Foods in Schools
The USDA has released its highly anticipated Interim Final Rules for snack foods sold in schools, replete with a healthy upgrade and a nifty visual flier to help explain the changes. As an interim...
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Hungry Enough to Eat a Horse? You're in Luck: USDA Approves Horse...
While much of the UK and Europe is still recovering from the heinous horsemeat contamination scandal that affected scores of meat supplies including foods served at Ikea and Taco Bell locations, the...
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USDA Facility Linked to 'Mysterious' GMO Monsanto Wheat Discovery in Oregon
Illegal genetically modified wheat found growing in an Oregon field “mysteriously” might have escaped from a USDA managed facility, reports Food Safety News. The discovery of the wheat just a month...
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Meat Industry Claims First Amendment Prevents the Need for Country of Origin...
Your meat probably doesn’t come from where you think it comes from…and the meat industry doesn’t want you to know this. Meat industry groups have filed a complaint against the USDA over new Country of...
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Got a Beef With Meat Labels? How to Demystify Their Meaning
Confused by all the different meat labels used these days? We help break down the facts for you. Kermit the Frog once said it’s not easy being green. Mindful carnivores know this maxim to be true:...
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The USDA’s Healthier School Lunches and Snacks Program: A Crash Course
The USDA recently announced a ban on junk food in schools as part of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. Starting in the 2014-15 school year, the “Smart Snacks in School” program bans unhealthy...
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The FDA Can’t Delay Food Safety Modernization Act, Rules Federal Judge
Northern District of California federal judge Phyllis Hamilton sided with the Center for Food Safety and Center for Environmental Health in a lawsuit filed over Food Safety Modernization Act...
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'Major Weaknesses' in GMO Field Trial Regulations, Group Tells USDA
More than 150 farmers and food-related businesses and organizations are requesting that the USDA require stronger oversight on experimental field trials of genetically modified crops, reports Reuters....
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Unlabeled Chinese Chicken Approved for Sale in the U.S.
After years of contentious discussions and laws prohibiting the sale of Chinese poultry in the U.S., the USDA has approved chicken products from four Chinese poultry processors to be sold in the U.S....
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USDA Comment Period on Genetically Modified Apples Reopened
The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has reopened the public comment period on Arctic Apple’s genetically modified apple. Public comments on the apple will be accepted through...
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