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Cold Comfort Farm Could small farms provide fresh food year-round, even in northern climes?	Tom Philpott	30 Aug 2006	Victual Reality
Is the sustainable-agriculture movement essentially Luddite? It's a common charge -- and a fair enough question. The Nobel Laureate Norman Borlaug, perhaps industrial agriculture's greatest living apologist, deplores at every opportunity the organic movement's supposedly technophobic ways. Addressing a graduating class a few years ago at Texas A&M -- that factory for fu ...
Topics: ag subsidies, agriculture, Department of Agriculture, food, local food, sustainable ag, Victual Reality (all these topics)

How now organic cow? USDA will soon decide how much pasture time organic dairy cows should get	Lisa Hymas	11 Jul 2006	Gristmill
With demand for organic milk soaring, the stakes are high in the debate over what exactly 'organic milk' is -- and that debate will soon be settled, at least from a legal standpoint, by the USDA's National Organic Program. As Samuel Fromartz writes in The Rocky Mountain News, the NOP is now considering a proposed regulation that would require all organic dairy farms to meet a certain standard for letting their cows out into pasture. Current USDA regulations only require t ...
Topics: agriculture, Department of Agriculture, food, organic food (all these topics)

They Put the 'Dies' In 'Subsidies' Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone' traced back to farm subsidies		17 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
They Put the "Dies" In "Subsidies" Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" traced back to farm subsidies You know that massive "dead zone" that shows up every year in the Gulf of Mexico? The oxygen-starved, life-free patch of water about the size of, oh, Connecticut? That's your tax dollars at work. The zone ...
Topics: agriculture, Department of Agriculture, Environmental Working Group, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Midwest, news, toxics (all these topics)

Old Big Brother Had a Farm USDA ID-tag plan for farm animals has some small-scale farmers unhappy	Amanda Griscom Little	10 Mar 2006	Muckraker
If only Orwell could get a load of this. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is promoting a system that would have farm-animal owners and livestock handlers attach microchips or other ID tags to their furry and feathered charges so they could be monitored throughout their lifetimes by a centralized computer network. The National Animal Identification System, ...
Topics: agriculture, Department of Agriculture, Muckraker (all these topics)

I'm Hatin' It How the feds make bad-for-you food cheaper than healthful fare	Tom Philpott	22 Feb 2006	Main Dish
If you're going to talk about poverty, food, and the environment in the United States, you might as well start in the Corn Belt. So good, and so good for you -- until it's turned into soda. Photo: stock.xchng. This fertile area produces most of the country's annual corn harvest of more than 10 billion bushels, far and away the world's largest such haul. Where does it all go? The majority -- a ...
Topics: Big Ag, Department of Agriculture, environmental justice, gardening, grassroots activism, industrial ag, local food, New York, placemaking, Poverty and the Environment, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Turn the Eat Around Forgotten by many, a Brooklyn neighborhood nourishes its own	Tom Philpott	22 Feb 2006	Main Dish
Wander into Brooklyn's Red Hook neighborhood on a Saturday morning in summer, and you'll see a sight not uncommon in New York City these days: a thriving and diverse farmers' market. Neighborhood denizens cluster around stands offering free-range meat, fresh cheese, cream-on-top milk, and a whole array of fresh fruit and vegetables, many of them grown right down the block. An Added Value ...
Topics: Big Ag, Department of Agriculture, environmental justice, gardening, grassroots activism, industrial ag, local food, New York, placemaking, Poverty and the Environment, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Dude, Where's My Crop? USDA failing to keep track of gene-mod crop experiments		17 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Dude, Where's My Crop? USDA failing to keep track of gene-mod crop experiments The U.S. Department of Agriculture has failed to adequately monitor thousands of acres of experimental biotechnology crops, according to, um, itself. A two-year internal investigation yielded a report released quietly -- that is to say, buried -- in the days before Christmas. In it, the department's inspector general said the USDA did not f ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, GMOs, news (all these topics)

You Picked a Bovine Time to Peeve Me USDA loophole lets penned cows get certified organic		20 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
You Picked a Bovine Time to Peeve Me USDA loophole lets penned cows get certified organic The U.S. Department of Agriculture may be caving to owners of factory dairy farms by failing to revise some rules on organic milk. At issue is how the agency defines an organic bovine. One requirement is that the cows have "access to pasture," but another provision allows them to be raised in confined pe ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, news (all these topics)

O Brother, Where Artificial Thou? Fight over synthetic ingredients splits organics community	Amanda Griscom Little	29 Sep 2005	Muckraker
What do xanthan gum, an artificial thickener, ammonium bicarbonate, a synthetic leavening agent, and ethylene, a chemical that accelerates the ripening of fruit, have in common? These and other synthetic additives commonly lurk behind that "USDA Organic" stamp of approval you see on the organic products increasingly crowding the shelves of big-box stores and ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, food, Muckraker, organic food (all these topics)

A Friendly Conservation White House to greens: We should totally do this again some time	Jon Christensen	02 Sep 2005	Soapbox
Say anything. Uncle Sam wants you ... to cooperate on conservation. Not only that, he's willing to listen. At least that's what he says. Earlier this week, St. Louis hosted the White House Conference on Cooperative Conservation. The invitation-only event was modeled after Teddy Roosevelt's 1908 Governors' Conference, which brought all the country's governors, Supreme Court j ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, Department of Defense, Department of Interior, environmental planning, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

The Great White Soap USDA will certify organic soaps and cosmetics		25 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
The Great White Soap USDA will certify organic soaps and cosmetics In a victory for consumers' all-natural kissers, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has decided it will allow worthy lip balms, lotions, and other personal-care products to carry the "USDA Organic" label after all, as well as dietary supplements and pet food. The department had decided this spring that while it was well equipped to evaluate the orga ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, news (all these topics)

Maybe She's Born With It, Maybe It's Labeling USDA won't certify personal-care products as organic		02 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
Maybe She's Born With It, Maybe It's Labeling USDA won't certify personal-care products as organic Makers of "natural" cosmetics, lotions, and potions, and the consumers who love them, are vexed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's recent decision not to certify personal-care products as organic. The little green USDA organic seal, which now adorns many food products in the U.S., will not be appli ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, green living, news (all these topics)

Where There's a Shill, There's a Way USDA pays freelance writer to tout Farm Bill's green cred		11 May 2005	Daily Grist
Where There's a Shill, There's a Way USDA pays freelance writer to tout Farm Bill's green cred In an effort to manufacture some green credibility, an Agriculture Department agency hired a freelance "journalist" to produce five articles on the conservation benefits of its Farm Bill programs. Paid at least $7,500 for his work, freelancer Dave Smith was instructed to push his stories to hunting and fishing magazines. ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, news (all these topics)

Mikey Likes It Bush's pick to head the USDA is a big ethanol booster	Amanda Griscom Little	09 Dec 2004	Muckraker
At a White House ceremony last week announcing the nomination of Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns (R) to succeed Ann Veneman as agriculture secretary, President Bush called his pick "a strong proponent of alternative energy sources, such as ethanol and biodiesel," later adding that "in a new term, we'll continue policies that are pro-growth, pro-jobs, and pro-farmer." Johanns ( ...
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, cellulosic ethanol, Department of Agriculture, energy, ethanol, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

You Put Your Right Foot in ... Shuffling is afoot in Bush administration's environment-related slots	Amanda Griscom Little	18 Nov 2004	Muckraker
There's so much talk of hirings, firings, retirings, and resignations at environment-related agencies in the Bush administration that it feels almost as though a whole new regime were coming in, when in fact we're likely to get four more years of the same policy aims. Ann Veneman (left) and Spencer Abraham. Photo: USDA. Departing at the cabinet level are Ann V ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Organic: Friend or Faux? USDA Dilutes Meaning of 'Organic' Label		18 May 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, United States (all these topics)

D'oh! Rey: Me? USDA's Mark Rey drags feet on releasing info about forest policymaking	Amanda Griscom	06 Apr 2004	Muckraker
D'oh! Rey: Me? USDA's Mark Rey drags feet on releasing info about forest policymaking By Amanda Griscom 06 Apr 2004 Mark Rey. Photo: USFS. According to lawyers from Defenders of Wildlife, Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, seems to be pulling some moves out of the Dick Cheney playbook -- the very same tricks of evasion and secrecy that have jeopardized the vice president's reputation in the fiasco surrounding his energy task force. Rey and his departm ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, logging, Muckraker, national forests, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Crop the Insanity USDA to Revisit Rules Governing GM Crops		23 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Crop the Insanity USDA to Revisit Rules Governing GM Crops The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Thursday that it will begin revising rules governing genetically modified crops. Several of the proposed revisions sounded like good news to wary enviros. One proposed a wide-ranging environmental impact statement assessing the ecological impact of current regulations, something environmental and consumer groups have be ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, GMOs (all these topics)

Drug Busting Enviros Sue USDA Over Biopharmaceuticals		13 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Drug Busting Enviros Sue USDA Over Biopharmaceuticals A coalition of green groups and consumer advocates took the U.S. Department of Agriculture to court yesterday in an effort to halt experimental planting of "biopharmaceutical crops," plants genetically engineered to produce medicine. The coalition, which includes Friends of the Earth and the Center for Food S ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, environmental non-government organizations, GMOs, health (all these topics)

Unsafe at Any Seed? A new consumer revolution could change the way we label food		30 Oct 2003	The Gist
There's a tongue-in-cheek ad campaign going on in New York City right now regarding smoking in public places. The ads feature slogans like, "If they ban smoking in airports, people will never fly again," and "If they ban smoking in bathrooms, people will never gossip again." I thought of this campaign when I stumbled across a Reuters article on Tuesday describing opposition to a new l ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, GMOs, green living, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Fishy Business		15 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Fishy Business For the second time this year, congressional Republicans have used behind-the-scenes trickery to weaken organic-labeling standards. Powerful Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, tacked a measure onto the recently passed $79 million war-spending bill that directs the U.S. Department of Agriculture to come up with a plan for certifying and ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, fishing, food, organic food, Ted Stevens (all these topics)

Lack of Interest		26 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Lack of Interest Three months ago, the U.S. Department of Agriculture settled a case against a Texas-based biotechnology company whose genetically modified (GM) feed corn contaminated natural corn and soybeans. The USDA represented the settlement as a sharp crackdown on violators of GM standards -- but in fact, the settlement involved a no-interest $3.5 million government loan, meaning the American people will subsidize the ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, GMOs (all these topics)

The Marshall Plan		11 Feb 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Department of Agriculture, Department of Interior, education, wilderness, Wilderness Society (all these topics)

Prodigal Son		09 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Prodigal Son The U.S. Agriculture Department has levied more than $3 million in fines against biotech company ProdiGene for mixing GM corn containing an animal vaccine with soybeans meant for human consumption. The contaminated soybeans were stopped before they reached the market, and the company, which makes pharmaceutical and industrial enzymes and proteins by growing them in GM corn, will pay $2.7 million for the value of ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, GMOs (all these topics)

The Science of the Lambs		03 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
The Science of the Lambs It ain't easy being a scientist in farm country: Researchers studying the health effects of agricultural pollution say they are being silenced by fearful superiors and harassed by individual farmers, farm groups, and even the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which funds and controls much of the research ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, health, Iowa, Midwest, North Carolina, pollution and waste, water pollution (all these topics)

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