DES MOINES, Iowa — The U.S. Agriculture Department announced Monday it will close nearly 260 offices nationwide, a move that won praise for cutting costs but raised concerns about the possible effect on food safety. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the goal was to save $150 million a year in the agency’s $145 billion budget.… [Read more…]
November 18, 2011 by foodsafeguru
Pizza is Not a Vegetable Washington D.C. (November 17, 2011) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a longtime advocate of children’s nutrition, today released the following statement after language was inserted into the Fiscal Year 2012 Agriculture, Rural Development Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies Appropriations act that prevents the Department of Agriculture from implementing… [Read more…]
September 23, 2011 by foodsafeguru
It’s a well known fact that most farm subsidies go to crops, like feed corn, that aren’t exactly healthy. They’re crops that are easy to grown en masse and in the heartland. But a new study from the US Public Interest Research Group, called “Apples To Twinkies,” shows just how unhealthy most subsidized food is.… [Read more…]
August 24, 2011 by foodsafeguru
A spotted wing drosophila has been found in a trap on a blueberry farm in Atlantic County, New Jersey, according to a news release from the New Jersey Department of Agriculture. The finding was confirmed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Systematic Entomology Laboratory. So far this season, growers of blueberries and peaches in the… [Read more…]
August 16, 2011 by foodsafeguru
(NaturalNews) Adding yet more evidence to the proof that the U.S. government maliciously promotes dangerous food borne illness outbreaks rather than trying to prevent them, evidence has emerged today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture knew ground turkey produced by Cargill was widely contaminated with salmonella, yet it did nothing about it and waited for… [Read more…]
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