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Meat Recall in California: One Year’s Worth of Beef ‘Unfit for Human...
Northern California meat processor Rancho Feeding Corp., has issued a massive meat recall for more than 8.7 million pounds of beef products that failed to undergo the proper federal inspection...
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The USDA Doesn’t Have Enough Meat and Poultry Inspectors, Veterinarians...
A shortage of USDA meat and poultry inspectors may put Americans’ health at risk, warns a top inspectors’ union official and a food safety group. The announcement comes just a week after close to nine...
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Honey Bees Getting $3 Million to Get Off HFCS and Eat Better
Humans aren’t the only ones consuming a lot of high-fructose corn syrup. The other species? Honey bees. While they’re not downing Big Gulp sodas or snacking on processed chocolate chip cookies, many...
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Was Genetically Modified Alfalfa Hastily Approved by a Pressured USDA?
Did Monsanto pressure the USDA to approve genetically modified alfalfa? That’s the question Washington-based Center for Food Safety is hoping to get answered with a lawsuit filed against the USDA in...
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What Does Brazil Know About Healthy Eating That the U.S. Doesn’t?
Think about the U.S. dietary guidelines for a second. What comes to mind? A pyramid? Grains on the bottom, fats on top? While the pyramid no longer exists – it’s a plate now – those government...
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Are Organic Food Buyers Being Duped? New Study Says Yes, Big Time
A new report suggests our increased interest in organic food may be the result of “fear-mongering” and other tactics that have catapulted organic food into the fastest growing consumer food and...
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Rancho Feeding Corp Swapped Sick Cow Heads with Healthy Cow Heads to Trick...
How did 9 million pounds of beef—more than a year’s worth of sales for Rancho Feeding Corp.—end up being recalled? New information has come to light on the January raid that led to the massive recall....
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USDA Makes ‘Historic’ $78 Million Investment in Local Food Systems
Credit goes to the 2014 Farm Bill for what’s an historic $78 million investment into local food systems including farmers markets, processing facilities, distribution services, and other local food...
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‘Healthy Eating on a Budget’: USDA Launches Low Income Friendly Shopping Guide
The USDA has launched a program entitled “Healthy Eating on a Budget.” It’s an addition to the ChooseMyPlate.gov website, which focuses on the recommended daily nutrition values of the food groups...
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House Passes Legislation on School Meals: They Don’t Have to be Healthy Anymore
In a 31 to 18 vote, the House Appropriations Committee voted yesterday in favor of an agriculture budget bill, with $21 billion marked for child nutrition, that will allow schools to opt out of the...
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Virtually All USDA Inspectors ‘Ignoring’ the Humane Slaughter Act
It’s been a year since the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) accused the USDA’s food safety division of failing to enforce the Humane Slaughter Act. Now, several...
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20 Food and Farm Advocacy Groups Say Organic Food Label Threatened, Petition...
Twenty food, farm and consumer advocacy groups, including The Cornucopia Institute, Beyond Pesticides, Center for Food Safety, Organic Consumers Association and Food & Water Watch, filed a...
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Preventing Honey Bee Deaths Focus of New White House Task Force
President Obama has made a big move in solving the mystery of honey bee deaths, commonly referred to as colony collapse disorder, with the creation of the Pollinator Health Task Force charged with...
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USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack Says GMO Labeling Debate Has ‘21st-Century Answer’
During the recent Aspen Ideas Festival focused on healthy living and food choices, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack touched on issues that surround the GMO labeling debate, acknowledging the need for some...
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U.S. Poultry Inspection Moves Towards Self Regulation, Fewer USDA Inspectors...
The USDA has announced major updates on regulations to the poultry inspection system for the first time in 50 years. Under the new rule, which goes into effect immediately, the USDA is putting much of...
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USDA’s New Poultry Inspection System Spurs Lawsuit Over ‘Privatizing’ Safety...
The USDA’s controversial New Poultry Inspection System is the subject of a lawsuit filed by advocacy group Food & Water Watch. The group wants to stop implementation of the poultry inspection...
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Illegal Genetically Modified Wheat Found Growing in Second State
Genetically modified wheat developed by Monsanto—but never approved for sale in the U.S.—has been found growing in Montana, the second U.S. state to discover unapproved GMO wheat growing in just over...
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USDA Invests $52 Million in Organic Farming and Local Food Systems
The USDA is taking a big interest in organic farming. The agency is expected to announce on Monday that it’s making a $52 million investment in research on organic farming and in support of local food...
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USDA to Set Strict Limits for Pathogens in Poultry Products
The USDA is being charged with the task of curbing the presence of pathogens in poultry products, specifically those ground and separated in factories, because they’re more prone to higher levels of...
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Major Biotech Companies Skirting USDA Regulatory Process on GMOs with...
In efforts to speed products to market, major agricultural biotech companies have found ways to avoid the sometimes lengthy USDA approval process for genetically modified organisms by using methods...
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