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What is your general view about the safety of genetically modified organisms (GMOs)? 23 Aug 2013 | 09:08 pm
The public debate over genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is shrill. GMO opponents are very tough on occasional environmentalists who express a public view that GMOs might be safe or useful. GMO ...
Rodney Leonard: "No food stamps, no farm program." 23 Aug 2013 | 07:20 pm
The Republican-led House of Representatives recently passed a Farm Bill with no food stamp provisions. Fiscal conservatives in the House hope this will allow them to make deep cuts to the Supplementa...
30% price incentive has positive impact on fruit and vegetable intake for SNAP participants 24 Jul 2013 | 08:47 pm
USDA's Food and Nutrition Service today released the Interim Report from the Healthy Incentives Pilot (HIP), a major study of price incentives for fruit and vegetable intake for Supplemental Nutrition...
With declines in Ogallala Aquifer, a reflection on the politics of agricultural environmentalism 24 Jul 2013 | 06:58 pm
Here is an excellent, sober, persuasive, and worrisome report at Science 360 about the accelerated decline of the Ogallala Aquifer from 2011 to 2013, because of drought on the Great Plains. In the...
Minnesota Public Radio discusses the politics of food assistance 23 Jul 2013 | 11:30 pm
Julie Siple at Minnesota Public Radio last week described some of the political history of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), including the early bi-partisan support in the days of ...
Mark Winne discusses SNAP reform 23 Jul 2013 | 08:32 pm
Long-time anti-hunger and community food security activist Mark Winne has a new essay on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Winne is passionate about protecting the program from th...
High ethical standards in the supplement industry 17 Jul 2013 | 09:26 pm
Talking Points Memo and other media have been covering the many thousands of dollars in allegedly unreported gifts from dietary supplement industry executive Jonnie Williams to Virginia Governor Bob M...
Recent activities of Dietitians for Professional Integrity 16 Jul 2013 | 05:00 pm
Andy Bellatti last month summarized in a column for Civil Eats the recent activities of Dietitians for Professional Integrity, an initiative to encourage the leading dietetics professional association...
City Blossoms: urban gardens make people smile 15 Jul 2013 | 05:00 pm
My parents and I were inspired by our recent visit to City Blossoms near our old neighborhood in Washington, DC. This series of urban gardens, including gardening programs for children and youth, was...
An introduction to Food Policy in the United States 12 Jul 2013 | 08:42 pm
A second excerpt from the first chapter of Food Policy in the United States: An Introduction (Routledge/Earthscan), which was published in April. This book offers an introduction to food policy in th...
