NPR – The Salt by Dan Charles Source: Chris H Listen to the story here. Within just a few days, on Jan. 1, all eggs sold in California will have to come from chickens that live in more spacious quarters — almost twice as spacious, in fact, as the cages that have been the industry… Read more »
Tester-Hagan Sign On Letter 2014
[NOTE: Coordinated by the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance, this letter outlines a number of concerns with the FDA’s new proposed food safety rules and their applicability to family-scale farmers and ranchers. The Cornucopia Institute is among the 70 organizations that co-signed, and the 12,000 farmers, food and agricultural business leaders and individual signers.] Click… Read more »
2015, the Year the GOP Strikes Back at Obama Food Policies
Politico by Jenny Hopkinson, Helena Bottemiller Evich, Bill Tomson and Chase Purdy Source: USDA The Obama administration is becoming increasingly involved in what Americans put on their dinner plates and in their cereal bowls, from requiring school children to be served fruit to eliminating trans fats in doughnuts. But the new Republican Congress is already… Read more »
