The food revolution in America has begun. Even though the main stream media has largely ignored the raw milk and GMO Monsanto Protection Act news, one Maine town just upped the ante in the organic food debate. Sedgwick has declare ...
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Obama Waivers On GMO In The Face Of A Colossal Deal With Monsanto
DuPont and Monsanto just struck a $1.75 billion deal that allows the world’s two largest seed producers to increase GMO seed technology sharing. The Monsanto Protection Act spurred a host of farmers from across America and Food Democracy Now to ...
Read More »Senator Demands U.S. Government Quit Recruiting People to Use Food Stamps
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Jeff Sessions (R) of Alabama is demanding that the U.S. Department of Agriculture quit promoting the use of food stamps in poor and immigrant communities. Sessions cites USDA promotional programs aimed at recruiting new food stamp ...
Read More »Florida School Considers Using “Trash-Cams” to Keep Kids from Tossing New Federally Mandated Cafeteria Food
LAKE COUNTY, FLORIDA – The Lake County School Board is debating whether to use “trash-cams” to determine what and how much school cafeteria food is being thrown away by students. This comes in the wake of newly implemented national guidelines ...
Read More »Demand for Farmers Markets Booming in Urban Areas
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported last week that the number of direct-sales markets has increased 9.6 percent in the past year. After 18 years of steady increases, the number of farmers markets across the country now ...
Read More »7 Million Pounds of “Pink Slime” Beef Headed for School Cafeterias
The so called ‘pink slime’ beef that made headlines in charges against Taco Bell is turning up everywhere, from restaurants to home dinner tables. Leading fast-food chains have promised to stop using the chemically treated meat though evidence points to ...
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