Critics say Uncle Sam’s dietary guidelines are based on politics rather than nutrition – and that argument soon could be strengthened. That’s because the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is considering telling Americans to eat no meat in an effort ...
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State Orders All-Natural Creamery To Inject This In Its Milk
A Florida dairy owner is suing the state in order to get the right to put the words “skim milk” on her containers of skim milk. The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (DACS) in 2012 ordered the Ocheesee ...
Read More »State Forces Organic Business To Dump 250 Gallons Of Raw Milk
Businesswoman and co-op owner Jenny Samuelson is a firm believer in raw milk, and for good reason. She says it cured her of severe allergies and migraines, and to this day she treats it like a medicine. So when the ...
Read More »Another Organic Dairy Farm Under Attack For Raw Milk
Raw milk farmers are under attack once again, this time in Pennsylvania. The Department of Agriculture is being accused of filing false claims about unpasteurized milk contamination. Your Family Farmer, a Chambersburg-based association of farms, was recently ordered to terminate ...
Read More »Many Still Not Satisfied with Labor Department’s Focus on Family Farms
WASHINGTON, DC – Department of Labor Secretary, Hilda Solis, probably thought the 85 pages of new regulations she quietly endorsed last year would slip past thinking Americans, but she was wrong. As Off the Grid News reported a few weeks ...
Read More »Food and Fuel Inflation no Secret to Consumers
Beef prices rose more than 10 percent over last year and the Department of Agriculture reports at least another 5 percent increase in 2012. In spite of official White House news that inflation stands at under 2 percent, that isn’t ...
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