Government outlet provides safe, special food for the nation's leaders Associated Press MSNBC.com BEIJING - While China grapples with its latest tainted food crisis, the political elite are served the choicest, safest delicacies. They get hormone-free beef from the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, organic tea from the foothills of Tibet and rice watered by melted mountain snow. And it's all supplied by a special government outfit that provides all-organic goods from farms working under the strictest guidelines.

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By Dairy Herd staff Sales of fat-reduced organic fluid milk were up nearly 20 percent last year, according to data released by the Agricultural Marketing Service.

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Inside This Issue: Action Alert: Message to President Obama * Despite Legal Setback, Raw Almond Fight Continues * Saving Organic Dairy * Cornucopia Board Holds Annual Meeting * The Watertown Hotel Download the full newsletter here: March 2009 E-newsletter

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SAMPLE LETTER -- click here: We Must Tell Congress to also Protect High Quality Organic and Local Food Supporting Viable Federal Oversight over Corporate Agribusiness Local/Organic Farming: Part of the Solution, Not Part of the Problem! 1. HR 875: The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 2. HR 759: The Food and Drug Administration Globalization Act of 2009 3. HR 1332: Safe FEAST Act of 2009 The blogosphere has sounded the alarm warning that Congress and agribusiness and biotechnology lobbyists are conspiring to pass legislation that will force organic and local farms, and even home gardeners, out of business. What are the threats and opportunities, and how should we gear up to communicate with our congressional representatives?

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USDA revises its plant hardiness map, bringing climate change down to earth for millions of households across the country. By Jennifer Weeks for the Daily Climate As winter retreats northward across the nation, gardeners are cleaning tools and turning attention to spring planting. But climate change is adding a new wrinkle, and now a standard reference - the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Plant Hardiness Zone Map - is about to make very clear how much rising temperatures have shifted planting zones northward.

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