Food-Safety Funding Battle Looms as Obama Prepares to Sign Reform Bill
Molly Peterson Bloomberg President Barack Obama will sign a $1.4 billion food-safety bill today that marks the biggest change to oversight of the food industry…
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Microsoft Offers Tracking Protection on IE9, Strikes Deal With USDA
image: Reuters Jennifer Booton Fox Business Microsoft (MSFT) has been busy announcing over the last few days a new privacy feature on Internet Explorer…
USDA Certified Organic’s Dirty Little Secret: Neotame
Barbara H. Peterson Farm Wars Just when we thought that buying “Organic” was safe, we run headlong into the deliberate poisoning of our organic food…
USDA GMO Policy Favors Monsanto (VIDEO)
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Betrayed again: S.510 fake food safety loaded into government funding resolution
Dees Illustration Marti Oakley, Contributing Writer Activist Post We knew something else was afoot. The vote on S.510 too easy and too pat. The bill, which…
Like the Patriot Act? You’re gonna love the Food Safety Modernization Act
Rady Ananda Food Freedom Down to the wire – the bill will likely be voted on this Monday, November 29. Farmers, slow food activists, natural…
70% of World’s Raw Chocolate Soon To Be Genetically Modified
Source: UNCTAD based on the data from International Cocoa Organization, quaterly bulletin of cocoa statistics Prevent Disease With the intention of flooding 70% of the…
One in 7 US households hit by hunger issues in 2009
Jerry Norton Reuters *Emergency food pantry use up sharply in recent years *Food stamps used by 15 million families a month in 2009 WASHINGTON, Nov…
Is the USDA Governing Our Taste Buds?
David Katz, M.D. Huffington Post The New York Times has done a fine job pointing out the fishy thing about cheese: The same federal authorities…
The Food Crisis of 2011
Addison Wiggin Forbes Every month, JPMorgan Chase dispatches a researcher to several supermarkets in Virginia. The task is to comparison shop for 31 items. In…
Food Prices Expected to Rise Sharply
Brian A. Shactman CNBC Everyone is waiting for inflation. Corn is up 45 percent the last three months. We haven’t seen cotton prices this high…
Agriculture Secretary and Ex Monsanto Lobbyist Defends Dropping Potatoes From Federal Food Program for Low-Income Mothers
Dan Joseph CNS News Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says there is nothing wrong with eating potatoes in moderation, even though the federal Women, Infants and…
Food Stamp Usage Soars Among Working Families
Mark Niesse Associated Press HONOLULU — Lillie Gonzales does whatever it takes to provide for three ravenous sons who live under her roof. She grows…
Obama taps food-industry exec for top ag-research post
Tom Philpott Grist The long-simmering debate about Obama’s ag policy — whether it represents a new paradigm, agribusiness as usual, or some enigmatic combination —…