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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of October 26, 2014

Seven articles regarding the 2014 Farm Bill, from the fall issue of Choices magazine:
http://www.choicesmagazine.org/choices-magazine

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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of October 12, 2014

Background links for “Want Reform? Audit, Please.”  Farm and Food File column for the week of October 12, 2014
Press release, ROI Study by Cattlemen’s Beef Board, July 31, 2014
Cornell ROI study on beef checkoff, released June 25, 2014
Prof. Harry Kaiser’s biography and CV, Cornell University
 
 

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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of October 5, 2014

Background information for “The Price of Access: $1.2 Billion” Farm and Food File column, week of October 5, 2014
2013-2014 Individual and PAC contributions to Congressional candidates, September 30, 2014
Top 20 contributors, sugar cane & beets
“Outside” political spending, 2014
 

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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of September 28, 2014

Background links for Who Knew, Farm and Food File column for the week of September 28, 2014
This Man’s Job: Make Bill Gates Richer, The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 19, 2014
Beyond Meat homepage
Humane Society helps sponsor “Hoofin’ It” in Denver
Brazil’s billionaires buying iconic U.S. food businesses, from The New York Times
Railroads Reshape Crude Market, from The […]

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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of September 21, 2014

Background information for the Farm and Food File column “Slouching Toward Election Day”
Wikipedia page noting minimum wage law of 2007/2009
Obamacare Helps Voters, Saps Votes, The New York Times, Sept. 17, 2014
GOP Gains Strength and Obama Gets Low Remarks, Poll Finds, The New York Times, Sept. 16, 2014
800 People Still Malnourished: UN Report, The New York Times, […]

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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of September 14, 2014

Source material for “So Choose,” Farm and Food File column for the week beginning September 14, 2014
American Farm Bureau Federation’s “Ditch the Rule” website
​EPA’s “Ditch the Myth” website
Tougher rules than WOTUS needed, from The Des Moines Register
​Facts on WOTUS, from EPA
Lake Erie’s latest troubles, from The New York Times
Waters of U.S. Fact Check Sheet, from […]

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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of August 24, 2014

National Research Council, GMO meeting announcement
Robert Fraley’s “Organics & GMOs” column on Huffington Post
Jonathan Foley’s “GMOs & Reductionist Thinking” post
List of “Panic-free GMO” stories from both sides of the debate
 
 

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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of August 17, 2014

NY Times editorial: Global Trade Talks Suffer Another Setback
Reuters piece on pro-business Narendra Modi’s “historic win”
New Yorker article detailing Modi’s “stunning” victory

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Alan quoted in Chicago Magazine

What kind of luddite still uses dial-up internet nowadays?! Well, millions of Americans have no better choice.
Alan is quoted in this recent Chicago Magazine article regarding the continued lack of rural broadband access across the country.
http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/August-2014/Why-Would-Anyone-Still-Use-AOL/

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Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of August 10, 2014

NPPC president-elect arrested for trying to enter Capitol Hill office with loaded handgun
Kansas primary fight features GOP heavyweights
Agri-Pulse: PACs Pave Way for Greater Political Influence in Rural America

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