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Showing posts with label USDA. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Why Does Taxpayer Money go to a Big Meat Lobbying Group?

Tuesday, March 25, 2014
via AllGov   

(graphic: High Country News)
Each year a trade group representing the beef industry collects more than $40 million in tax dollars to promote its agenda and battle political opponents. It’s an unusual arrangement, considering that most lobbying organizations rely on private funding to fund their activities.

Friday, February 14, 2014

How We Are Forcing Corrupt Mega Corps Like Monsanto Out of Business

by Anthony Gucciardi
February 14th, 2014
Updated 02/14/2014 at 1:11 pm


In just the past few weeks and months, we have generated powerful traction in the fight against corrupt mega corporations like Monsanto and others — and it all comes down to consumers refusing to purchase additive-loaded food products, deposit cash with banks that are spying on them, or tune into the latest propaganda news hour on MSNBC.


Tuesday, February 11, 2014

New Farm Bill Forbids Disclosure of Which Companies Receive Federal Crop Insurance

 
"Coises, Americans foiled again!"




Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Sen. Debbie Stabenow 
and President Obama 
(photo: Duane Burleson, AP)
In signing a farm bill that restricts the public’s knowledge of which corporations will benefit from it, President Barack Obama has traded transparency—something he vowed to bring more of to Washington—for politics.

Saturday, February 8, 2014

Is our Government Covering Up Faked Foods in America?

Could these food frauds happen here? Is our government covering-up another surfacing scandal? Not on your life! Our congressional oversight and agency watchdogs would be all over it like the government is all over your personal privacy! [Sarcasim deliberate]. Whistleblowers please step forward.



 Fake-food scandal revealed as tests show third of products mislabelled

Consumers are being sold drinks with banned flame-retardant additives, pork in beef, and fake cheese, laboratory tests show

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

10 Members of Congress who Receive Farm Subsidies Voted to Cut Food Stamps

Those that know their Constitution must be asking themselves 'why on earth do we still have agricultural subsidies for the elitist few?' As we see it the debate is not if the anti-Constitution congressional greedy should give their US taxpayer-subsidized handouts to another class of handouts, but what gives the fedgov the constitutional  authority to create either? Both methods of graft maintain ever increasing consumer prices for ALL Americans. Abolish both along with eliminating waste and fraud that accompany both. It would be a baby step back to the Rule of Law, but a needed step nevertheless. Crawl before you can walk, and walk before you run. As it is now we've put ourselves back in soiled diapers.

Friday, September 13, 2013

USDA Says Florida Food Pantry Must Remove Its Christian Symbols

Written by  Dave Bohon Friday, 13 September 2013 15:53

A Florida Christian ministry that has been distributing food to the needy for the past 31 years said it will drop all connections with the federal USDA agriculture bureaucracy