Don’t Confuse Me With the Facts, I’ve Already Made Up My Mind: Milk in...
Below is the only study I have ever found that compares the impact of whole fat milk to reduced fat milk on the weight of children. And it’s not for lack of trying. Given that this is a area of...
View ArticleTopsoil Erosion in Iowa and Progressive Change
A new report from the Environmental Working Group shows that soil erosion on many Iowa farms is much worse than previously believed. Bleeding Heartland looks at the findings of the report and the ways...
View ArticleLay of the Land: The AG Committee Leaders Talk Strategy and Timelines
Jerry Hagstrom at AGWeek looks at what the party leaders and chair people of the House and Senate AG Committees are saying about the Farm Bill. Lucas (R KS) is saying that with an inexperienced...
View ArticleGrappling with Food Insecurity in Mississippi
A lot of people saw the recent report that the Meals on Wheels Association rated Mississippi as the number 1 state in the country for food insecurity for the elderly. The problem significant. Meals...
View ArticleFederal Sustainable Agriculture Education Wiped Out In A Single Stroke & How...
This is truly tragic. Stephanie Paige Ogburn reports at the Goat Blog: In the recent budget bill passed by Congress, ATTRA,* a 35-year-old program that has provided knowledge and training to new and...
View ArticlePatrick Basham on Restaurant Calorie Counts
This is excerpted from an otherwise uninteresting column in the Washington Post on menu labelling. Patrick Basham, founding director of the Democracy Institute and an adjunct scholar at Cato, considers...
View ArticleWhat’s That Smell?
Stephanie Paige Ogburn on rumblings for the EPA to regulate ammonia as a criteria pollutant: Last month, a broad coalition of citizen groups petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to more...
View ArticleRegulating Junk Food and the Smoking Gun
Mark Bittman has a new column decrying the toothlessness of government’s new call for processed food companies to voluntarily stop marketing junk food to kids in 5 years. The good news is that the...
View ArticleSmall Farming News
I came across a few interesting items on the theme of small farming. The first is a report in Food Safety News on Sen. Jon Tester’s victory in winning an exemption for small farms in the new food...
View ArticlePlaying Chicken
In a move to prop up profits for poultry conglomerates and distort markets, the USDA is stepping in to purchase $40 million of chicken products. While there is a long history of principled price...
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