ethicurean.com - 2/3/2009
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Above: National Agricultural Library archival image , shot from the Washington Monument in the mid-1920s; US Department of Agriculture greenhouses on the Mall are shown in foreground.
The food system in this country has broken down like a rusty old tractor. Or more accurately, like a ...
ethicurean.com - 2/4/2009
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On Friday we published the first half of
this epic attempt to compile a list of specific
actions the new USDA could undertake in its first six months that would offer significant payoff in terms of real changes in the food system. After polling a ...
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Ready, set, go change the food system, part 2: More USDA ...
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USDA Nears Decision on Food Safety Chief - Federal Eye -
usda.gov - 2/6/2009
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2009 – The number of
farms in the United States has grown 4 percent
and the operators of those farms have become more diverse in the past five years, according to results of the 2007 Census of Agriculture released today by the ...
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Release No. 0036.09
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Food reform, meet climate change
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
... We can and should get started attacking certain areas of food policy reform -- for thoughts on that, see the Ethicurean's fantastic two-part series on the USDA's ideal near-term priorities. There's no excuse for doing nothing. But the fundamental transformation of food and agricultural policy that we need won't happen without addressing climate change first. I'm willing to be proven wrong, of course. But if I had to bet on which can happen first -- reforming the House Agriculture Committee or passing real climate change legislation -- I'd bet the farm on climate. ...
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usda.gov 2/13/2009 — WASHINGTON, Feb. 12, 2009 -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today "broke pavement" on the inaugural USDA The People's Garden during a ceremony on the grounds of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) commemorating the 200th birthday of Abraham ...
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