Earlier this year, the USDA solicited submachine guns. The United States Department of Agriculture! This is an agency tasked with regulating agriculture… and they asked for submachine guns. My question: Why would an agency created to regulate farmers require automatic weapons?
State Backs Down After Threatening to Take Baby Over Homemade Formula Dispute
Nothing strikes more fear into the heart of a loving parent than the idea of having their children taken away. Yet that’s just what the state of Maine threatened to do recently to young mother Alorah Gellerson when she told her doctor that she was feeding her baby a homemade formula made from raw goat’s milk.
USDA Guts Organic Standards
Last week the USDA announced a change in the organic ingredients “sunset” policy — without any kind of public review. You see, before last week, if a company wanted to include a non-organic (synthetic) ingredient in certified organic foods, the ingredient had to apply for an exemption which would expire after five years unless it was re-exempted by a decisive, two-thirds majority vote of the National Organic Standards Board. That is no longer the case.
The Best of 2012: Food Renegade’s Year in Review
As one day slips into another, it’s hard to remember that any individual day can mark milestones. But days are all about remembrance. We use them to mark the monumental, to build a cairn in our mind’s eye. You remember the day you named your son, the first time you held your daughter in your arms, the moment your loved one journeyed from life into death. You celebrate anniversaries, holy days, and new years.Tomorrow marks a new year. Before I begin it, I want to be properly thankful for what has passed. Thus, I am sharing with you The Best of 2012, a series of awards acknowledging this year’s milestones for Food Renegade. Hope you enjoy!