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The USDA People’s Garden Expansion
A White House garden will put healthy food for the First Family in the spotlight—and maybe a little healthy competition too, as Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack doubles down....
04.29.09
food politics
Tension Builds Between Organic Dairy Farmers And Processors
The kumbaya era is over: Organic agriculture is now large enough to face some of the same systemic problems that conventional agriculture struggles with every day.
04.27.09
- Keywords
- food policy,
- organics market,
- dairy,
- agriculture,
- sam hurst
food politics
Organic Milk Overload
The growth of the organic-food market has hit a recession-related roadblock—the downward spiral of overproduction and lower prices.
04.13.09
- Keywords
- farms + fish,
- organics market,
- dairy,
- agriculture,
- industry
food politics
Charlie Johnson’s Open Letter on Organic Milk
As long as there are children going to bed hungry and arriving to school hungry, there is no such thing as a surplus.
04.13.09
- Keywords
- farms + fish,
- organics market,
- dairy,
- agriculture,
- industry
food politics
Rethinking School Vending Machines
A whole new approach is the subject of the third Senate hearing on school nutrition re-authorization.
04.06.09
- Keywords
- health + science,
- kids,
- nutrition/diet,
- sam hurst
food politics
Red Meat and Mortality
A major new study links consumption of red meat to premature death. But is beef really to blame?
03.27.09
- Keywords
- health + science,
- beef,
- nutrition/diet,
- sam hurst
magazine
No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
For generations, the students at Red Cloud Indian School raised their own food—then the federal government got into the act.
April 2009
- Keywords
- nutrition/diet,
- health + science,
- sam hurst,
- chris dudley,
- kids
food politics
Minnesota School Food Survey
The re-authorization of the School Lunch Programs promises to benefit both students and farmers, but the devil is in the details.
03.13.09
- Keywords
- health + science,
- nutrition/diet,
- kids,
- joanne berkenkamp,
- sam hurst
food politics
Who is Kathleen Merrigan?
The new nominee for Deputy Secretary of Agriculture is a spot-on selection by Obama and Vilsack.
03.05.09
- Keywords
- food policy,
- agriculture,
- kathleen merrigan,
- barack obama,
- sam hurst
food politics
The Farm Bloc
The Senate Committee on Agriculture is responsible for U.S. farm policy as we know it—but Kirsten Gillibrand, the committee’s newest member, may help push it in a better direction....
02.25.09
- Keywords
- agriculture,
- farms + fish,
- farming,
- produce,
- sam hurst