An Amazing Interactive Food Atlas
DAILYBREAD.jpg I’m worried this will keep me distracted for hours or even days. But then, it will also be highly useful to me on nearly a daily basis from now on. The USDA has created a ” Food Environment Atlas ,” which is basically a Google Map that users can manipulate to find out all kinds of things about America’s food system at both macro and micro levels, based on government data that can be mixed and matched with a click or two. Just for example, you can see…
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USDA Classifies PETA as Terrorists
[Food & Drink]The group's contentious media campaigns, undercover operations, infamous advertising, and high profile demonstrations have made them perhaps the most infamous--and most polarizing--nonprofit organization there is. But are they terrorists? According to the US Department of Agriculture, yes, yes they are.
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"Drink California Milk" Ads to be FIlmed in New Zealand
[Travel & Places]The California Milk Advisory Board may have shot itself in the hoof. The board, which promotes the state's dairy farmers and is overseen by the California Department of Food and Agriculture, is again preparing to film commercials touting California milk from California cows -- in New Zealand.
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PETA’s Pet Slaughterhouse
[Pets & Animals]PETA’s “Animal Record” report for 2008, filed with the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, shows that the animal rights group killed 95 percent of the 2,216 dogs and cats in its care last year. During all of 2008, PETA found adoptive homes for just SEVEN pets.
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Millionaire Farmers Get Big Bucks in Crop Subsidies
[Food & Drink]At least 2,702 farmers nationwide received subsidies between 2003 and 2006 even through they were making more than the $2.5 million gross income cutoff. The payments totaled $49 million and exposed Agriculture Department management problems. The improper recipients included a mix of corporations, partnerships and trusts, but no names are listed...
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US Military Creates World’s First 100% Renewable Jet Fuel
[Environment]The Department of Defense funded the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) to create the world’s first renewable jet fuel, and the mission had been accomplished. The EERC has created a substitute for the fuel, using renewable feedstock made from agricultural products and/or waste oils. The process developed by the EERC can produce propane,...





























