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All posts tagged "USDA"

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  Read the Fine Print on all Food Products: Much of it has been made or produced overseas

  Read labels on food products to avoid those made in foreign countries where food safety is a low priority.

  • Posted January 10, 2019
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  SAVE THE DATE: August 15 Burpee opens its gates at Historic Fordhook Farm. Come One and All

  Historic Fordhook Farms invites the public to its lovely Doylestown location to share the harvest and see the wonders of the Burpee Seed Company, which started here more than 130 years ago.

  • Posted August 6, 2015
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  Responding to the USDA Dietary Food Guidelines

  Responding to the USDA request for comments on the proposed dietary guidelines for the next five years.

  • Posted April 23, 2015
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  USDA Approves Labels for Meats and Liquid Egg Products from Animals Free of GMO Feed. Yeah!

  Inch by inch the war against genetically modified foods is being won.  It’s a long, hard slog, but we are making progress.  Even the USDA has made a pronouncement that helps. Although the statement by the U.S.D.A....

  • Posted July 1, 2013
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  Homekeeping: What Can We Do?

  Over the Thanksgiving Day holiday weekend, I had several opportunities to think about and discuss some important issues of the day. Is the Earth on a viable, sustainable path? Are the recent weather events –...

  • Posted November 26, 2012
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  We’re Going To Have To Get a Bigger Table: James Beard Foundation takes on Trust

  The Five James Beard Foundation Leadership Award Winners for 2012 agreed that to feed the world’s exploding population, we will need to fix our broken food system.“We’re on the Titanic. The band is playing. Time...

  • Posted October 26, 2012
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  The first generation of biotech crops has failed. And failed badly. So what’s big ag’s answer? Poison Everything with Agent Orange. Eek.

  Along with these major health impacts, the approval of Dow’s "Agent Orange" 2,4-D corn will likely lead to a massive explosion in the use of 2,4-D across the U.S., a fact that has greatly alarmed scientists, environmentalists...

  • Posted April 24, 2012
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  Get the Pink Slime Out of School Lunches: Act Now

  If you thought that Pink Slime was going away just because the ammonia-treated meat filler byproduct has received a ton of bad press and the USDA finally said it would allow it to be labeled, think again....

  • Posted April 18, 2012
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  USDA To Decide Imminently On Novel “Agent Orange” Corn: Call your congress person and vote NO.

  Agent Orange Corn: the latest invention by the Agricultural Industrial Complex. Guaranteed to drift for miles to poison organic food crops, harm wildlife and little children. Say NO!

  • Posted April 16, 2012
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  Kim Hartke Reports Latest News on the Raw Milk Lawsuit

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration continues efforts to curb consumer access to raw milk, by seeking the closure of farmers whose milk flows across state lines. The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund persists in seeking redress for...

  • Posted April 12, 2012
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