Post: #76

Luvapottamus  Wrote:

LoP Guest  Wrote:

none of this is 'sensible'. she didn't come up with any of this. that is apparent from her well documented eating habits. this is yet another statist agenda to exert control of he population. can't you people see that?

I don't need her nudging me anywhere.

She needs to be nudging the RBGH, aspartame, and MSG out of the phood supply, not quacking about fat and salt.

Post: #77

The Lucky AC  Wrote:

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the problem is, though, that while michelle is touting healthy foods her husband has put monsanto in charge of the fda and usda

that's what we should focus on, not the first lady's attempt at helping create an interest in good food

jmho

THIS ^^^^

Post: #78

Liberal food fascism.

The hypocrisy is staggering.

Post: #79

LoP Guest  Wrote:

Mustard Tiger  Wrote:

Seems like the first thing she would have done is to limit the products that could be purchased with food stamps. If she is so worried about the poor folk. Stop subsidizing Little Debbie. This b*tch takes the cake. God help us she decides to run for office and I have a feeling she will.

In communitarianism everybody gets equal everything. Reading the mayoral pdf was exactly like listening to Rosa Koire talking about her book "Behind the Green Mask" (which reveals the NWO communitarian agenda to herd us all into cities, governmentalize all farms, bring in big brother to every aspect of our lives and force compliance while removing all freedoms and everybody is highly surveilled.) The needs of the community will always surpass the needs of any individual...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpDzAFi-Xr4

Rosa Koire on Coast to Coast w/ George Noory: Topic Agenda 21

Dec 8, 11:29 AM EST
USDA chief: Rural America becoming less relevant

"It's time for us to have an adult conversation with folks in rural America," Vilsack said in a speech at a forum sponsored by the Farm Journal. "It's time for a different thought process here, in my view."

He said rural America's biggest assets - the food supply, recreational areas and energy, for example - can be overlooked by people elsewhere as the U.S. population shifts more to cities, their suburbs and exurbs.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/U...TE=DEFAULT

Post: #80

Luvapottamus  Wrote:

Pi  Wrote:

LoP Guest  Wrote:

none of this is 'sensible'. she didn't come up with any of this. that is apparent from her well documented eating habits. this is yet another statist agenda to exert control of he population. can't you people see that?

Bullshit. It'll be a process of incentives and disincentives to nudge the American people into eating better. That is all.

And a quick look at her ideas suggests to me she does know what she is talking about.

I don't need her nudging me anywhere.

She needs to be nudging the RBGH, aspartame, and MSG out of the phood supply, not quacking about fat and salt.

Post: #81

LoP Guest  Wrote:

LoP Guest  Wrote:

Mustard Tiger  Wrote:

Seems like the first thing she would have done is to limit the products that could be purchased with food stamps. If she is so worried about the poor folk. Stop subsidizing Little Debbie. This b*tch takes the cake. God help us she decides to run for office and I have a feeling she will.

In communitarianism everybody gets equal everything. Reading the mayoral pdf was exactly like listening to Rosa Koire talking about her book "Behind the Green Mask" (which reveals the NWO communitarian agenda to herd us all into cities, governmentalize all farms, bring in big brother to every aspect of our lives and force compliance while removing all freedoms and everybody is highly surveilled.) The needs of the community will always surpass the needs of any individual...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpDzAFi-Xr4

Rosa Koire on Coast to Coast w/ George Noory: Topic Agenda 21

Dec 8, 11:29 AM EST
USDA chief: Rural America becoming less relevant

"It's time for us to have an adult conversation with folks in rural America," Vilsack said in a speech at a forum sponsored by the Farm Journal. "It's time for a different thought process here, in my view."

He said rural America's biggest assets - the food supply, recreational areas and energy, for example - can be overlooked by people elsewhere as the U.S. population shifts more to cities, their suburbs and exurbs.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/U...TE=DEFAULT

GMO Contamination? USDA Suggests Sticking Small Farmers With the Bill

By Leon Kaye | December 4th, 2012 5 Comments


The collapse of Proposition 37 may already seem to be a faraway political memory, but the controversy over GMOs (genetically modified crops) still festers. A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) advisory board has developed a roadmap on how farmers whose crops become cross-contaminated by GMO seeds–and lose their status as organic or non-GMO producers–could find ways to “co-exist” with biotech agriculture.

Key to the advisory board’s report was the discussion of insurance and “joint coexistence” schemes in the event a farm became subjected to “unintended GE [genetically engineered] presence in identity-preserved products.” Central to the board’s recommendations was the recommendation of a “crop insurance model” to address such “potential inequities.” In English, conventional or organic farmers would have to buy insurance in the event their crops became affected by GMOs.

According to the AC21 (Advisory Committee on 21st Century Agriculture), farmers could eventually safeguard themselves by the purchase of insurance in the event of such GMO contamination. Growers who had such “joint coexistence” activities with neighboring farms growing GMO crops would score a reduction in such premiums. Such a plan, however, would only work if a wide participation of conventional and organic farmers occurred. In other words, companies such as Monsanto and Dupont, which dominate the market of genetically modified corn, soy and cotton, would be off the hook while farmers and taxpayers would bear most of such costs. In fact, the AC21 report suggests that in the event a farmer ever suffered such losses, the onus would be on the farmer to prove both the financial loss, and the magnitude of such losses–and minimize any “potential adverse impacts on innovation or trade.”

Naturally, organic farmers and food safety advocates were unimpressed. The National Organic Coalition (NOC), led by one the organization’s members, Andrew Kimbrell, responded to the AC21 report with exasperation:

“The AC21 report takes responsibility for GE contamination prevention out of the hands of USDA and the biotech industry where it belongs and puts it squarely on the backs of organic and non-GE farmers. This ill-conceived solution of penalizing the victim is fundamentally unjust and fails to address the root cause of the problem – transgeniccontamination.”


While the AC21 Advisory Board appears to be a representation of American agriculture, representatives from DuPont, the American Soybean Association, the American Farm Bureau and National Corn Growers Association were among those on the advisory committee. Tom Laskawy, a writer for Grist, claims that three-quarters of the board’s members were from big agribusinesses. Meanwhile, the American Farm Bureau was pleased with the recommendation.


http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/12/gmo-...mers-bill/

Post: #82

USDA scientists and cooperators sequence the wheat genome in breakthrough for global food security

posted on: november 28, 2012 - 7:30pm


This release is available in Spanish.

WASHINGTON, November 28, 2012 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists working as part of an international team have completed a "shotgun sequencing" of the wheat genome, a paper published in the journal Nature reported today. The achievement is expected to increase wheat yields, help feed the world and speed up development of wheat varieties with enhanced nutritional value.

"By unlocking the genetic secrets of wheat, this study and others like it give us the molecular tools necessary to improve wheat traits and allow our farmers to produce yields sufficient to feed growing populations in the United States and overseas," said Catherine Woteki, USDA's Chief Scientist and Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics. "Genetics provides us with important methods that not only increase yields, but also address the ever-changing threats agriculture faces from natural pests, crop diseases and changing climates."

Olin Anderson and Yong Gu, scientists with USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) based at the agency's Western Regional Research Center in Albany, Calif., played instrumental roles in the sequencing effort, along with Naxin Huo, a post-doctoral researcher working in Gu's laboratory. All three are co-authors of the Nature paper.

ARS is USDA's principal intramural scientific research agency, and the work supports the USDA goal of ensuring global food security.

As the world's largest agricultural research institute, USDA is focused on reducing global hunger by increasing global cooperation and collaboration on research strategies and their implementation. For example, through the U.S. government's Feed the Future initiative, USDA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) are coordinating their research portfolio with ongoing work of other donors, multilateral institutions, and government and non-government entities at the country level to effectively improve agricultural productivity, reduce food insecurity and generate economic opportunity.


http://www.sciencecodex.com/usda_scienti...ity-102882