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Don't touch that vulture

New Jersey officials are choosing to let rotting vultures lie. Experts are horrified at the risk of a new bird flu

Salon

There aren't enough young farmers. Congress is looking to change that

Attracting a younger generation is key to building a sustainable food system, but getting access to land is a huge barrier to entering farming, according to a new survey.

WEKU

Getting SNAP shoppers online is a win for food security and superstores. For corner stores and bodegas, not so much

The push for recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, to shop online has been hailed by anti-hunger activists as a win-win solution to food insecurity. Locally, one out of every 10 households lacks access to affordable, healthy food on a consistent basis.

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US asks farmers: Can you plant 2 crops instead of 1?

There is a limited amount of farmland, so when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last spring prompted worries that people would go hungry as wheat remained stuck in blockaded ports, there was little U.S. farmers could do to meet the new demand

The Independent UK

USDA scattering rabies vaccines for wildlife in 13 states

The U.S. government has begun scattering millions of packets of oral rabies vaccine from helicopters and planes in 13 states from Maine to Alabama

The Independent UK

'That's still the dream': Buying up Minnesota farmland

The first step to buying farmland in Minnesota is probably, well, already owning farmland.

Tribune News Service

Public health alert issued over Perdue frozen chicken tenders that may contain plastic

The USDA advised buyers to dispose of the gluten-free tenders sold at BJs because they may contain small pieces of clear plastic and blue dye

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Checks and Balances- August 2022

The Checks and Balances Letter delivers news and information from Ballotpedia’s Administrative State Project, including pivotal actions at the federal and state levels related to the separation of powers, due process, and the rule of law.

Ballotpedia

A harsh new climate reality for farmers

Growers across the country are reckoning with a harsh new climate reality

Salon

Mum felt 'sick' after 'hair and nit' found in daughter's, 4, McDonald's drink

Chantelle Gledhill said she felt "sick" and was left unable to eat after a hair and a nit were allegedly found in her four-year-old daughter's McDonald's soft drink

Daily Mirror

Massive Alien Moth Found In US For First Time

"Washington State entomologists are asking the public to report sightings of the atlas moth after one was recently discovered."

Zenger

Religious Schools Needn't Follow New Title IX Gender Guidance To Stay in School Lunch Program

Plus: The Espionage Act is still bad, six more states could legalize recreational marijuana, and more...

Reason

Spaghetti sauce is under threat as water crisis slams tomatoes

Tomatoes are getting squeezed.

Tribune News Service

Don't mess with federal crop insurance, farmers say. Others aren't so sure

From field hearings in Morton buildings to sweet corn feeds at county fairs, farmers have been practicing a refrain this summer: Hands off the federal crop insurance program.

Tribune News Service

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The Independent UK

Video of Orcas fighting at SeaWorld prompts call for boycott

‘We would see bite marks and fresh wounds all over the side of the whale,’ witness says

Tribune News Service

Senate reconciliation keeps farms, forests in climate formula

The Senate’s revived reconciliation deal would keep agricultural conservation, forestry and renewable fuels in the Democrats’ formula for fighting climate change.

Roll Call

Senate reconciliation keeps farms, forests in climate formula - Roll Call

The measure proposes more than $20 billion for agriculture provisions, including biofuels, conservation and wildfire prevention.

Texas Observer

Next on the GOP’s List: Starving Queer Kids

Republican attorneys general, including Ken Paxton, have filed suit over a federal school lunch program that prohibits discrimination against LGBTQ+ children.

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The Independent UK

USDA getting tougher on salmonella in chicken products

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing new regulations that would force food processors to reduce the amount of salmonella bacteria found in some raw chicken products or risk shutdowns

Ballotpedia

Republican-led states sue Department of Agriculture over nondiscrimination school meal guidance

Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery (R), joined by 21 Republican attorneys general, filed a lawsuit on July 26, 2022, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee that aimed to overturn guidance from the Biden administration and the Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service.…

The Independent UK

Funding for school lunches in jeopardy as GOP officials sue over anti-discrimination rule

More than 20 Republican attorneys general are suing the federal government over a Department of Agriculture programme

The Texas Tribune

Texas suing USDA over requirement to add LGBTQ protections to nutrition programs’ nondiscrimination policies

The USDA Food and Nutrition Service announced in May that it would expand its definition of sexual discrimination to include gender identity and sexual orientation. Paxton and other attorneys general are suing in response.

Tribune News Service

Minnesota's meat lockers need apprentices to solve bottlenecks, report says

First, a farmer needs a pig or a cow.

Reason

D.C. Circuit Makes It More Difficult for New Administrations to Stop "Midnight" Rules

It may now require notice and comment to rescind final rules that were never published in the Federal Register.

Reason

America's Meat Shortage Is Self-Inflicted and Fixable

How can it be that with so much cattle in America, we sometimes can't buy meat?

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