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Dr Sarah Taber
SarahTaber_bww
today's niche horror: going from produce food safety regulations (FDA) to meat (USDA)it's awful & not even for the reasons you'd think FDA regulations: written by scientists in the 2000's.
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MoveOn
MoveOn
Vilsack has a troubling history with Big Agriculture monopolies, and he has deep opposition from Black farmers and civil rights advocates. For these reasons, we oppose President-elect Biden's nomination of
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NBC News
NBCNews
The federal government is projected to issue record subsidies to farmers across the US this year. But Black farmers, whose numbers have been dwindling for generations, say they've yet to
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Jonathan Larsen
jtlarsen
Paul Adams appeared in this Biden campaign ad shortly after he and I started talking about the failure of his dairy farm in Wisconsin.He says in the ad, "Joe Biden
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Scott Irwin
ScottIrwinUI
1. I am intentionally going to propose a controversial hypothesis in this thread. My hypothesis is that #pftour20 is more valuable now than in the past due to the change
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Noel
Frogerta
My school district has offered grab and go meals throughout the Summer for families in need. It’s been extended to 12/31/20. Our district said it’s for families enrolled in our
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Revolving Door Project
revolvingdoorDC
1/ Biden, the alleged "unity" candidate has just announced his nomination of Vilsack to lead USDA. The only thing unifying about Vilsack? A broad coalition of groups vehemently oppose his
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Nathan Rosenberg
rosenblawg
According to Politico, a "person close to Biden" is defending Vilsack's civil rights record by claiming that discrimination complaints went down at USDA under Vilsack "according to USDA's own data."
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Joseph Britt
Zathras3
Good, deep dive into who might get what jobs in the Biden Department of Agriculture by @hbottemiller @mmcassella & @liz_crampton at @politico. Important thing to know about USDA: [short thread]....https://twitter.com/quintforgey/status/
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Matt Hildreth
mhildreth
USDA ≠ Rural America. Over 90% of rural Americans are not farmers. And as @anthonypipa writes, there are 400 federal rural economic and community development programs that span 13 departments.
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Dr. Emma Kovak
EmmaKovak
New @USDA proposed regulations for genetically engineered animals would allow more to be developed and commercialized, an important step to addressing livestock’s environmental and animal welfare problems.But it doesn’t go
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Tom Philpott
tomphilpott
This framing is BS. If Heitkamp and Vilsack are so great at garnering support from white rural people, why are both of their states ruled by right wing ghouls? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/us/politics/biden-agriculture.html?referringS
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The Counter
TheCounter
THREAD: Retail sales of organic products surged during the pandemic—the organic market is booming. Despite this, only 0.6 percent of U.S. agricultural land is certified organic. Why is this?https://thecounter.org/farmers-face-barriers-to-
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Zachary Stansell
ZacharyStansell
My idea of "fun" now is making a little tool that maps USDA crop data. Tell me a crop you wanna see major shout out to these people:https://github.com/ropensci/rnassqshttps://www.r-bloggers.com/2019/11/rnassqs-accessing-usda-agric
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Helena Bottemiller Evich
hbottemiller
A thread on nutrition aid during Covid>>> For all the political wrangling over SNAP (aka food stamps) in the aid deal, the 15% increase comes out to be $27/per person
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Matt Klapper
mattklapper
In 1920, there were nearly 1 million Black farmers in the US.Today, there are fewer than 50,000.Their decline in numbers has not only far outpaced that of White farmers, their
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