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Why My Plate Doesn’t Look Like MyPlate
The USDA recently announced its new version of its classic food pyramid. And it’s no longer a pyramid. It’s a plate they call “MyPlate.” Graphically, I like the plate. It’s simple, clear and...
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Bayer Pays Farmers $750 Million for GMO Cross-Contamination
Bayer has agreed to a $750 million settlement in a lawsuit brought by U.S. farmers whose rice crops were contaminated by Bayer’s genetically modified strain of rice. The farmers suffered heavy losses...
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Can a Supermarket Change a Food Desert?
A new study out of UNC Chapel Hill suggests that increasing people’s access to supermarkets won’t increase their consumption of fruits and vegetables. This has implications for recent efforts to plant...
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Farm-to-School Programs Catching on
The USDA estimates that over 2,500 U.S. communities now run farm-to-school projects, in 10,000 schools. The projects now span every state in the union, and reflect an increase from only 400...
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USDA Rejects New York Plan To Ban Food Stamp Use on Soda
The USDA last week rejected New York’s proposal to ban the use of food stamps to buy soda within the state. The state needed a special waiver from the USDA to implement such a change to the federal...
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New York Health Department Finds Evidence for Banning the Use of Food Stamps...
Two weeks ago the USDA rejected New York’s proposal to ban the use of food stamps to buy soda in New York stores. Now New York’s Health Department has come out with a study suggesting such a ban would...
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Do Farm Subsidies Really Cause Bad Diets?
Michael Pollan helped fan the flames a few years ago over U.S. agricultural policy. By describing shifts in American agricultural policy that occurred during the 1970s he suggested that our farmers...
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Is Our Food About to Get Safer? Or Less Safe?
The House and Senate have each passed their 2012 agriculture appropriations bills, but it’s not yet clear what the final law will look like. The bills are currently in committee, where lawmakers will...
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U.S., Europe To Recognize Each Other’s Organic Certifications
Starting June 1, the U.S. will recognize the European Union’s organic certification, and vice versa. What this means for U.S. consumers, I believe, is that products certified organic under E.U....
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“Got Milk?” Campaign for Organic?
The Senate version of the 2012 Farm Bill would set the wheels in motion for a national organic marketing program similar to the dairy farmers’ program that funded the “Got Milk?” campaign, the egg...
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