White House garden: Don’t call it “organic”
The White House kitchen garden is surely home grown, but it isn't organic, and there aren't any plans for it to be.Assistant White House Chef Sam Kass, an old friend of President Barack Obama's who...
View ArticleE. coli forces lettuce recall; 19 ill in 3 states
A food company is recalling lettuce sold in 23 states and the District of Columbia because of an E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least 19 people, three of them with life-threatening symptoms.The...
View ArticleFood companies to remove 1.5 trillion calories
Several of the nation's largest food companies say they will take 1.5 trillion calories out of their products by 2015 in an effort to reduce childhood obesity.The companies made the announcement...
View ArticleAlfalfa sprouts recalled after at least 22 ill
Salmonella found in raw alfalfa sprouts appears to have sickened at least 22 people in 10 states, including a baby in Oregon, prompting a nationwide recall of the product.Caldwell Fresh Foods of...
View ArticleSherrod not sure she would go back to Ag Dept
The woman at the center of a racially tinged firestorm involving the Obama administration and the NAACP said Wednesday she doesn't know if she'd return to her job at the Agriculture Department, even if...
View ArticleSherrod says she’d love to talk race with Obama
Former Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she wants to discuss racial issues with President Obama, who's "not someone who has experienced some of the things I've experienced...
View ArticleOusted worker Sherrod rejects return to Ag agency
Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Department official ousted during a racial firestorm last month, declined Tuesday to return to the agency, though she said it was tempting.Sherrod and Agriculture...
View ArticleRodents, other violations found at egg farms
Food and Drug Administration investigators have found rodents, seeping manure and even maggots at the Iowa egg farms believed to be responsible for as many as 1,500 cases of salmonella poisoning.FDA...
View ArticleEgg company to apologize for outbreak
The owner of an Iowa egg company says in testimony prepared for a House hearing that he was "horrified" to learn that his eggs may have sickened as many as 1,600 people in an outbreak of salmonella...
View ArticleEPA approves 15 percent ethanol for gasoline
The Environmental Protection Agency has approved blending higher concentrations of ethanol into gasoline for newer vehicles, allowing the corn-based fuel to be up to 15 percent of mixtures sold at the...
View ArticleU.S. offers $680 million to Indian farmers
The government is offering American Indian farmers who say they were denied farm loans a $680 million settlement.The two sides agreed on the deal after more than 10 months of negotiations. The...
View ArticleFeds may move to ban alcoholic energy drinks
Federal regulators are expected to move to ban caffeinated alcoholic drinks as soon as this week, according to a New York senator.Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer, who has pushed the Obama...
View ArticleObama signs historic school lunch nutrition bill
Thousands more children would get into school-based meal programs and those lunches and dinners would become more nutritious under a bill President Barack Obama signed into law Monday, part of an...
View Article“My Plate” replaces USDA’s familiar food pyramid
The Agriculture Department says "My Plate," its new healthy eating symbol, aims to show that nutrition doesn't have to be complicated."My Plate" -- a simple circle divided into quadrants that contain...
View Article36M lbs. of turkey recalled in salmonella outbreak
Meat giant Cargill is recalling 36 million pounds of turkey after a government hunt for the source of a salmonella outbreak that has killed one person in California and sickened dozens more.The...
View ArticleSchool lunches: What foods are in and what foods are out
The Agriculture Department is proposing new nutritional rules that would apply to most foods sold in schools. The rule would apply to "a la carte" lines in school cafeterias, vending machines, snack...
View ArticleFDA to investigate added caffeine in foods
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trail mix. Potato chips. And now gum.With a growing number of foods boasting added caffeine for an energy boost, the Food and Drug Administration says it's time to investigate their...
View ArticleHouse panel approves legislation with food stamp cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Agriculture Committee on Wednesday approved a sweeping farm bill that would trim the $80 billion-a-year food stamp program.The panel rebuffed Democratic efforts to keep the...
View ArticleSenate passes farm bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — The last time Congress passed a farm bill, Democrats had control of the House and the food stamp program was about half the size it is today.That was five years ago.Conservatives...
View ArticleHouse kills controversial farm bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House rejected a five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm bill Thursday that would have cut $2 billion annually from food stamps and let states impose broad new work requirements on...
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