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Richard Wolf USA Today 6/22/2015 WASHINGTON — Score one for the little guy. The Supreme Court sided with a renegade raisin farmer Monday in his battle against a federal program designed to keep excess raisins off the market. A majority of justices ruled that the Agriculture Department program, which seizes excess raisins from producers in […] June 28th, 2015 | Tags: Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Marvin Horne, Michael McConnell, raisins | Category: 5th Amendment, Agriculture and Food Production, California, Department of Agriculture, Property rights, SCOTUS, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Cristina Marcos The Hill 6/11/2015 President Obama’s trade agenda survived a bad scare in the House on Thursday when the GOP rule governing debate for the package narrowly survived a 217-212 vote. Thirty-four Republicans voted against the rule, while eight Democrats backed it… …House Republicans could only lose 26 of their own for the rule […] June 11th, 2015 | Tags: Mark Krikorian, Rep. Marcy Kaptur, Rep. Thomas Massie, Speaker John Boehner, Trade in Services Agreement, Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), transparency | Category: Agriculture and Food Production, Banking and finance, Barack Obama, Congress, Health Care, Immigration, legislation, Politicians | Comments are closed
Terry Jones Investors.com 2/20/2015 From the same people who brought you four decades of increasing obesity based on their nutritional “science,” comes new guidelines that include taxes on dessert, plant-based diets, demonization of meat and electronic monitoring of your habits. Never fear, the food police are here. This list of intrusive, big-government insanity is brought […] February 21st, 2015 | Tags: big government, food, Food Nanny, The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee | Category: Agriculture and Food Production, Department of Agriculture, Department of Health and Human Services, Government, Michelle Obama, Progressives | Comments are closed
Scott McFetridge Associated Press via ABC News 12/28/2014 For thousands of years, people have exchanged seeds to grow terrific tomatoes or produce the perfect potato, but a new effort to loan and borrow seeds has created a conflict between well-meaning gardeners and state agriculture officials who feel obligated to enforce laws restricting the practice. Seed […] December 29th, 2014 | Tags: "sprinkles", Food Nanny, seed exchanges, Seed Savers Exchange | Category: Agriculture and Food Production, Department of Agriculture, federal regulations, Food and Drug Administration, legislation, States | Comments are closed
Douglas Main Newsweek 11/13/2014 Kiss that New England cod goodbye. At least for now. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has closed off most of the waters off the Northeast coast to cod fishing for the next six months, effective November 13. It’s the largest closure of its kind for cod in history, and […] November 14th, 2014 | Tags: cod fishing, Gulf of Maine, New England, NOAA, Provincetown | Category: Agriculture and Food Production, federal regulations, Maine, Massachusetts | Comments are closed
Cheryl K. Chumley The Washington Times 9/22/2014 Muslims in Minnesota facing poverty and tapping local food banks say they need a program that recognizes their pork-free needs. Somali-Americans in one Minneapolis community have called for local government officials to create a no-pork zone via a special food shelf just for foods that conform to their […] September 25th, 2014 | Tags: food banks, pork, Somalia | Category: Agriculture and Food Production, Entitlements, Human Rights, Islam, Minnesota | Comments are closed
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