Family Ties: HSUS and the Vilsacks
Picture a dinner, hosted by the Vilsacks, catered by the USDA, and serving HSUS. And you have to have a personal invitation, because: Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, caters to the Animal Rights...
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Should the USDA be working with HSUS?
Take Our Poll During the 2013 American Farm Bureau Federation National Convention, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, highlighted HSUS’s bully tactics and strong-arming of the United Egg...
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Meatless “Mandate” Monday’s Give Students Only One Option
What comes to mind when you think of grade-school lunches? Chicken patties, roast beef, meatloaf, mashed potatoes? Growing up, I always enjoyed heading to the lunch line, especially on the days you...
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PETA Harassing A Retirement Community? – “That’s Insane!”
This Week In Insanity Ep. 5 In this week’s episode, find out just how “Insane” PETA is for issuing a complaint to a Maryland retirement community over their housing of finches and filing a dubious...
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Agriculture Has “Beef” with USDA’s Proposed Checkoff Overhaul
Photo courtesy of National Beef Board USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack has enraged many in the agriculture community, putting producers and consumers at risk, with a proposed overhaul of the national beef...
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Will USDA & HHS Use Sound Science on Red Meat in 2015 Dietary Guidelines?
…perhaps, if the USDA, Tom Vilsack, and HSUS have their way. The debate over red meat in our diets is one that is fierce and seemingly endless, despite the mounting evidence that the vitamins and...
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Getting to Know the Food Desert Problem
What is a “food desert”? A term popularized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, food desert specifically refers to food insecurity and is defined by a specific list of characteristics, including...
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An Agriculture Degree: Today’s Golden Ticket
Photo via Oklahoma Panhandle State University – http://www.opsu.edu/Academics/Agriculture/ In America, receiving a job offer is pretty much the same process as it was twenty years ago. You find a...
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June is National Dairy Month
Photo via National Dairy Council Got Milk? If you want to find an excellent source of vitamins and nutrients, you should. Milk and its by-products provide an impressive list of benefits. Calcium and...
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(Un)surprising Results of an Animal Rights Group’s Dairy Farm “Investigation”
It is extremely disappointing that whenever we hear about new cases of undercover investigations on farms revealing animal abuse and mistreatment we no longer ask about the punishment of those...
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HSUS Continues to Infiltrate USDA Ranks
Agriculture Secretary and head of the USDA Tom Vilsack just can’t help himself. His continued partnership with Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the very people who are attempting to put...
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USDA Head Tom Vilsack Set to be Grilled on 2015 Dietary Guidelines by House...
On Wednesday, the House Ag Committee will have a hearing to discuss the conceptualization and implementation of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines. Ag Secretary and USDA Chief Tom Vilsack and Health of...
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The Great American School Lunch
It’s hardly something you think about on a daily basis. Your child goes to school, around noon or so receives the provided lunch from the school cafeteria, and so it goes day after day. We focus on...
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Our Top Ten Articles of 2015
Animal rights groups, Washington D.C. bureaucrats, and anti-conventional agriculture activists were certainly at the forefront of many issues the past year. Access to affordable food has been reduced,...
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Busting the ‘Factory Farm’ Myth
There are many cheap weapons in the arsenal of the anti-conventional agriculture activist. We recently wrote about one of those, the ‘right to harm’ slur used to connect farmers with a sinister...
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USDA Upsets Pork Industry with Decision to Talk Settlement of Major Lawsuit...
The pork industry is not exactly “hog-wild” about the USDA right now. This follows the Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s decision to side with Humane Society of the United States...
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U.S. Senate Debates GMO Labeling
The movement to label food products containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has swept the nation, as advocates propose strict new regulations on food producers and opponents warn of the...
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GMO Labeling Bill Struck Down in Senate
Legislation which would create a new national labeling standard for products containing genetically modified organisms, GMOs, failed to pass in the U.S. Senate after being defeated 48-49. The bill,...
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Nebraska Examines Food Desert Problem with New Bill
Map from USDA showing food deserts in the U.S. Legislators in Nebraska are taking steps to address the massive food desert problem that currently plagues the state, as well as the rest of the...
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American Soldier to American Farmer: How Many of Our Nation’s Veterans...
According to USDA research, the average age of farmers is in the upper 50s and has been rising for years. New, younger farmers are being discouraged from joining the industry because of lack of...
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