Posted on April 30, 2014
National Geographic’s food portal, NatGeoFood.com:
http://food.nationalgeographic.com/
National Geographic’s May 2104 story, Eat: The New Food Revolution:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/feeding-9-billion/#topskip
University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment:
http://environment.umn.edu/
Posted on April 23, 2014
Truth In Food:
http://truthinfood.com/
Chipotle:
http://www.chipotle.com/en-US/default.aspx?type=default
USDA Daily Dietary Guidelines:
http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/publications/mypyramid/originalfoodguidepyramids/fgp/fgppamphlet.pdf
Posted on April 9, 2014
New Zealand beef production and exports:
http://beef2live.com/story-new-zealand-cattle-beef-120-106615
U.S. live cattle imports, 1989-2013:
http://beef2live.com/story-cattle-imports-canada-mexico-1989-2013-89-110833
Sen. Stabenow’s press release on “Advanced Biofuels” hearing:
http://www.ag.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/stabenow-advanced-biofuels-to-grow-economy
2012 Iowa State University ethanol study:
http://www.card.iastate.edu/publications/dbs/pdffiles/12wp528.pdf
PEDv data and analysis:
http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/current/HogsPigs/HogsPigs-03-28-2014.txt
http://farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2014/04/pork-pedv-losses-not-as-large-as-expected.html
Posted on April 2, 2014
Summary of UN Intergovernmental Report on Climate Change (in particular, charts that begin on Page 35):
http://ipcc-wg2.gov/AR5/images/uploads/IPCC_WG2AR5_SPM_Approved.pdf
U.S. Department of Agriculture’s website on climate change impacts for corn:
http://www.sustainablecorn.org
2013 story on Gene Takle, Director, Iowa State University’s Climate Science Program (pages 24-25):
http://climate.engineering.iastate.edu/Document/Stories_2013Fall.pdf
Posted on March 19, 2014
Excerpted testimony for March 14 House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture:
http://farmpolicy.com/2014/03/14/farm-bill-biotech-ag-economy-immigration-and-political-notes-friday/#more-14876
Rebellion against food stamp cuts grows; National Public Radio, March 14:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/03/13/289849253/states-rebellion-against-food-stamp-cuts-grows
House Appropriations Subcommittee link to March 14 hearing on USDA:
http://appropriations.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=371323
Posted on March 12, 2014
Food Safety Inspection Service web portal:
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/home
USDA Food Safety Inspection Service portal for recalls by year from 1994-2013:
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/recalls-and-public-health-alerts/recall-case-archive/recall-case-archive-2013-new
FDA food recalls for week of March 5, 2014:
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/enforcement/enforce_rpt-Product-Tabs.cfm?action=Expand+Index&w=03052014%E2%9F%A8=eng#food
Diseases, hospitalizations, deaths by foodborne illness:
http://www.cdc.gov/Features/dsFoodborneEstimates/
Anti-poultry rule letter to The White House:
HIMP_Sign_On_Letter
Posted on March 7, 2014
The 25th annual MOSES Organic Farming Conference, the largest organic farming conference in America, attracted about 3,400 farmers to La Crosse recently, illustrating the dramatic growth of organic agriculture. The Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES) marked its 25th anniversary with contests, awards, historical exhibits and an anniversary celebration.
Keynote speaker and journalist Alan Guebert […]
Posted on March 7, 2014
The conference began a quarter-century ago with just 90 attendees, compared with the more than 3,000 organic farmers and growers who attended this year’s event. As Faye Jones, the executive director of MOSES exclaimed several times over the weekend, “This is the largest organic farming conference in the known universe!”
Organic farming is going to grow […]
Posted on February 19, 2014
72-Hour rule: http://www.gop.gov/indepth/pledge/readthebill
The House-Senate Conference Report on the Agricultural Act of 2014: http://beta.congress.gov/congressional-report/113th-congress/house-report/333/1
USDA forecasts: http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/oce-usda-agricultural-projections/oce141.aspx#.UwTBJEJdXKk
Washington Post “The Fix” Blog: Lost opportunity for Farm Bill transparency:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/02/07/a-missed-opportunity-for-transparency-with-the-farm-bill/
Previous USDA study on poultry insurance: http://www.rma.usda.gov/pubs/2011/poultryfeasibility.pdf
Posted on February 12, 2014
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“Meet Dr. Evil”: 60 Minutes
Coveted Washington echo chamber: NY Times
Phony non-profit: Bloomberg
Invests in front groups: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A despicable man, scoundrel: PR Watch (son David Berman)