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Perdue’s Proposed USDA Reorganization Puts Global Agribusiness Above Farmers and Rural Communities.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 05/11/2017 Contact: Josh Wise, jwise@iatp.org, 952-818-5474; Ben Lilliston, blilliston@iatp.org, 612-741-8650 Perdue’s Proposed USDA Reorganization Puts Global Agribusiness Above Farmers and Rural Communities.

Trump’s Proposed Ag Secretary Falls Short on Agriculture’s Big Challenges

Minneapolis/Washington–One day before his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump finally announced his nominee to run the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The USDA plan for deregulating and privatizing meat and poultry inspection: A short history

Minneapolis, December 5, 2013 — In early November, the European Commission (EC) posted on its website a report evaluating Australian meat inspection. The upshot of the report will be to ban imports of Australian beef, pork and lamb because Australia allows companies producing meat products to also inspect them for safety.

Agroecology should be at the core of USDA’s mission

The comment period recently closed on the USDA’s Research, Education, and Economics (REE) Action Plan Draft, which responded to informal and formal consultations with internal and external advisors and stakeholders, and “lessons learned from implementation of Farm Bill provisions.” I

The cost of cutting food safety

This blog entry was originally published in the Global Food Safety Monitor and as an op-ed on Food Safety News.

Nanotech organic?

The idea that engineered nanomaterials (involving the manipulation of materials at the molecular level) would be allowed in certified organic food production seems ludicrous on its face. Allowing nanotechnology would seemingly destroy the credibility of the organic label with consumers.

Perdue’s Proposed USDA Reorganization Puts Global Agribusiness Above Farmers and Rural Communities.

Trump’s Proposed Ag Secretary Falls Short on Agriculture’s Big Challenges

The USDA plan for deregulating and privatizing meat and poultry inspection: A short history

Agroecology should be at the core of USDA’s mission

The cost of cutting food safety

Nanotech organic?

The Volcker Rule in food safety

Vilsack robs Peter to pay Paul to address the hypoxic zone

Vilsack could learn from Henry Wallace

Counseling the USDA on Food Safety