Project 2025 Calls for Major Cuts to SNAP and WIC | Civil Eats
Aug 28, 2024 · Project 2025, the right-wing playbook for the executive branch, has gained feverish political attention in recent weeks as a central talking point of Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign and many speakers at the Democratic National Convention. The sweeping, 920-page document calls for drastic overhauls of federal agencies as well as the erosion of civil rights and the ...
Project 2025 Spells Out Big Changes to US Agriculture - Civil Eats
Jul 22, 2024 · As of March 2024, the most recent month for which data is available, more than 301,000 farms had close to 25 million acres enrolled in CRP; that’s a lot of acreage, but it represents less than 3 percent of U.S. farmland.. Project 2025, a conservative Republican presidential transition blueprint spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, proposes eliminating CRP.
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Is Recycled Plastic Safe for Food Use? - Civil Eats
Aug 27, 2024 · Since 1990, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency responsible for ensuring food contact materials are safe, approved at least 347 voluntary manufacturer applications for food contact materials made with recycled plastic, according to a database on its website. Approvals have tripled in recent years, from an average of seven to eight per year through 2019, to 23 per year since ...
Kennedy Pushes MAHA, but Does the Movement Promote Health …
Oct 9, 2024 · At the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), the administration installed Mindy Brashears, a Texas Tech University professor who had a number of research projects funded by the cattle and pork industries, as the top food safety official.. Chemical Exposures From the Food Supply. That influence contributed to significant deregulation of food and agriculture chemicals, a concern that is central to ...
How Four Years of Trump Reshaped Food and Farming
Nov 2, 2020 · Efforts to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which impacts many in the food and farm industries, began in 2017, as did Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) crackdowns on farms and factories. ICE raids intensified throughout 2018 and 2019 across the country, including in New York, Minnesota, and California.At the outset, the food world showed resistance ...
Tim Walz’s Bipartisan Approach to Agriculture and Conservation
Aug 19, 2024 · Walz, who spent his early years working on his family’s farm in rural Nebraska, found a political work-around of sorts. That year he introduced the Strengthening Our Investment in Land (SOIL) Stewardship Act, which boosted existing farm conservation programs and incentivized farms to adopt certain practices that improve soil health, ultimately making soils better able to sequester carbon.
12 Native-Owned Food Businesses to Support | Civil Eats
Oct 12, 2020 · Many centuries ago, the Quapaw Nation followed the Mississippi River into their traditional homeland in Arkansas. This is the origin of the name “O-Gah-Pah,” which can be translated as the “Downstream People.”
GMO Salmon Is (Sort of) on the Market: Here’s What It Means
Jun 24, 2022 · Right now, AquAdvantage is the only company in the game and its product is only approved for consumption in the U.S., Canada, and Brazil. But AquaBounty is moving forward on a new production facility in Pioneer, Ohio, that its executives say will produce 10,000 tons of salmon per year—more than eight times the output of the current Indiana facility.
400 Years After the Slave Trade Began, Tracing the Roots of …
Dec 5, 2019 · After Emancipation in 1863, African Americans began to write cookbooks that reached the mainstream public. In 1881, What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking included a recipe called “Jumberlie” that looked a lot like modern-day jambalaya. As the dish evolved over time, it was commonly identified by the use of tomatoes or tomato paste, as well as a mix of shrimp, andouille sausage ...