The following letter to Vice President Kamala Harris is from a coalition of minority advocates regarding the plight of black farmers in the US. October 24, 2024Vice President Kamala HarrisThe White House1600 Pennsylvania AvenueWashington, DC 20050 We represent the USDA Coalition […]
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BrucePac, based in Durant, Okla., has issued a recall of approximately 9.9 million pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry products due to concerns about potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced
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The following is from Children’s Health Defense. As the organic food industry grows, concerns about fraudulent labeling have also increased. Mark Kastel, an organic industry watchdog, explains that while the 1990 Organic Foods Production Act was intended to protect consumers,
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Senate Agriculture Committee members Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), John Fetterman (D-Pa.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) are urging the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to improve its process for the electronic submission and retention of foreign-owned farmland disclosures. The letter follows alleged
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The CDC is reporting a case of “highly pathogenic avian influenza” (HPAI) or bird flu in a Texas resident. The agency assures the public there remains a lot risk to the general public. Perhaps the most concerning facet of the
The following is from The Vaccine Reaction. About half of the members of a U.S. federal government panel that shapes dietary recommendations in the United States have significant financial ties to big agriculture, processed food companies, weight loss companies, pharmaceutical
The following is from The Washington Times. The food stamp program was slammed with fraud and bungling during the pandemic, leading to the highest rate of “improper payments” on record last year, according to government data. The U.S. Department of
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Now the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved a conditional license for a first ever honeybee vaccine. The goal of the vaccine is to prevent bee fatalities from American “foulbrood disease,” a bacterial condition that weakens colonies by attacking
