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Government Must Step Up School Lunch Regulation
Comments (1) | American Medical Association, children's health, Coehlo, Congress, Education, Food, Health, low income families, lunch, National School Lunch Program, nutrition, Obesity, obesity epidemic, Opinion, pizza, public health, public school, school lunch, school lunch regulation, usda
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Governments need to stand up for the kids in the face of big business.
Read more...Record Chinese Production Keeps Wheat And Corn Prices Stable Despite Drought
Corn growing near a silo. (KB35/Flickr)
A Chinese corn and wheat boom is keeping prices stable.
Read more...Jamba Juice's JambaGo Machines Pour Into School Cafeterias
Comments (0) | 7-eleven, California, carrie sams, Crane R-III School District, emeryville, Florida, Food, fruit drinks, healthy meals, jamba go, Jamba Juice, jambago, janice duis, Ken Llewellyn, mcdonalds, Michelle Obama, missouri, Public schools, school breakfasts, school lunches, smoothies, starbucks, usda, Virginia
The company's hopes JambaGo is a gamechanger for reducing obesity rates.
Read more...Rising Production Costs, Low Corn Yield Threaten Calif. Dairies
Comments (2) | agriculture, California, crunching numbers, dairies, dairy, dairy farmers, economic downturn, economy, epa, National, renewable fuel standard, usda, Western United Dairymen
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Nationwide drought hits dairy farmers hard.
Read more...Florida County Votes Against Water Fluoridation
Comments (0) | fluoridation, fluoride, mouth, National, Pinellas County, teeth, tooh decay, usda, water
Putting fluoride is water has been called one of the best health achievements of this century.
Read more...Does The U.S. Government Subsidize Junk Food?
Comments (0) | agriculture subsidies, childhood obesity, Mark Russo, National, Obesity, twinkies, usda
VIDEO: USDA agriculture subsidies may perpetuate childhood obesity epidemic.
Read more...Cargill Voluntarily Recalls 36 Million Pounds Of Ground Turkey
Comments (1) | agriculture department, cargill, cdc, center for disease control and prevention, food recall, ground turkey, ground turkey recall, National, recall, salmonella, tom vilsack, usda
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack (creative commons)
Government reportedly working to identify salmonella outbreak source.
Read more...USDA's Iconic Food Pyramid Retires
1992 Food Pyramid
SLIDESHOW: Does the new food 'pyramid' inform diners more... or less?
Read more...What's In A Product Label? Probably Lies.
Comments (2) | Commentaries, consumer products, drug labels, fda, food and drug administration, food labels, green, green products, Health, labels, product labels, usda
Who verifies if a product is "not tested on animals" or "green"? The answer is likely no one.
Read more...USDA Reveals New School Meal Standards
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The Department of Agriculture proposes a bevy of stricter rules on school cafeterias.
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