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Study: Midwest topsoil 'being eroded 100 times faster than it's forming'

Farmers might not know it — but something is stealing the land from under their feet.

Tribune News Service

Minnesota paper company sues feds over beaver dam removal

A paper company in northern Minnesota is suing the federal government over what it said was a bungled beaver dam removal that flooded two roads and a campground and left a lake clogged with debris.

Tribune News Service

Investigation of Musk’s Neuralink targets federal oversight of animal testing

Sources tell Reuters law enforcement authorities are concerned about USDA’s record on animal welfare violations

The Guardian - US

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Extreme winter spells trouble for food insecure

A hunger crisis is deepening for food insecure U.S. households.

Axios

Rural Kentuckians to receive more than $26 million for clean energy programs

WEKU

Midwest soil eroding faster than ever

How do researchers know? Stardust.

Salon

U.S. agriculture agency extends climate funding to small farmers

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will distribute an additional $325 million in funding for projects tailored to smaller-scale farmers to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, taking its total annual investment in climate-friendly farming to more than $3 billion, the agency announced Monday.

Reuters

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USDA climate-smart agriculture projects now top $3 billion

The federal government has announced another $325 million for agricultural projects that are intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

The Independent UK

'MyPlate,' the USDA's 'Food Pyramid' Replacement, Is Also a Dud

The federal government continues to be very bad at telling people what and how to eat.

Reason

Rural voters 'in the trenches' on climate, leery of Biden

The impacts of climate change hit communities across the country, yet voters in rural areas are the least likely to feel Washington is in their corner on the issue

The Independent UK

Avian flu has led to the killing of 140m farmed birds since last October

Culls and compensation have cost hundreds of millions of pounds in the US, UK and Europe, with current outbreak predicted to worsen

The Guardian - UK

Farmers of color sue government for promised federal aid

A class-action lawsuit says the federal government has illegally broken a promise to pay off the debts of a group of Black farmers

The Independent UK

What’s MyPlate? Few Americans know or heed the US nutrition guide

More than a decade after Agriculture Department officials ditched the food pyramid, few Americans have heard of MyPlate, a dinner plate-shaped logo that emphasizes fruits and vegetables.

Chicago Sun-Times

Musk’s Neuralink faces federal inquiry after killing 1,500 animals in testing

Brain-implant company accused of causing needless suffering and deaths amid pressure from CEO

The Guardian - US

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Salon

School meal waivers expired. Now what?

More than merely keeping kids fed, universal school meals “are the healthiest meals that kids are eating"

Fortune

It's official: This year's bird flu outbreak is now the worst in U.S. history

Prior to this year, the largest bird flu outbreak in U.S. history occurred in 2015, in what the USDA called “arguably the most significant animal health event in U.S. history.”

The Independent UK

MyPlate? Few Americans know or heed US nutrition guide

A new study finds that few Americans have heard of MyPlate, the government diet guide that replaced the long-standing food pyramid

Reason

Come Next Thanksgiving, We Might Be Giving Thanks for Government-Approved, Lab-Grown Turkey

Regulators are beginning to smile on the sci-fi project of creating real meat products without the typical death and environmental destruction.

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These counties have more turkeys than people

At least five counties in the U.S. have more turkeys than people.

Salon

How to properly defrost a frozen turkey

Is there a frozen turkey in your freezer? It may already be time to move it to the fridge . . .

The Guardian - UK

McDonald’s and Walmart beef suppliers criticised for ‘reckless’ antibiotics use

Exclusive: Most important antibiotics for human health still used in supply chains of major US food companies, risking spread of superbugs

The Conversation

Less burping, more meat and milk - how livestock farmers can help tackle the climate crisis

Africa’s livestock farmers are at the forefront of climate change. Images of parched landscapes littered with the carcasses of starved cattle are becoming all too familiar as droughts increase in frequency and severity. But cattle farming globally is also one of the causes of climate change. The world’s three billion…

Reuters

World making little progress on food waste, a big climate problem

Every Thursday, California resident Richard Redmond takes a gallon-sized container of food scraps to the farmers market in the city of South Pasadena where it is collected and composted for use in gardens – an effort to reduce the amount of household waste he sends to landfill.

Reason

There's No Good Reason To Expand Government-Funded School Lunches

It's an expensive policy with little upside.

The Guardian - UK

US farms lobby to use ‘cruellest’ killing method as bird flu rages

Controversial killing method could become preferred option despite vets saying it should only be used as a last resort

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