Posted on September 1st, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
It seems that George W is concerned about his legacy, and he is talking to a biographer named Robert Draper:
In book, Bush peeks ahead to his legacy
from Americas - International Herald Tribune
In an interview with a book author in the Oval Office one day last December, President George W. Bush daydreamed about the next [...]
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Posted on July 12th, 2007 by Emily Oppenheimer
It’s a common argument against organic development that organically grown and processed food is not suitable for the large scale consumption rate necessitated by the global population. According to new research coming out of the University of Michigan, though, this isn’t true. In fact, the research asserts that organic farming can yield up to three [...]
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Posted on June 29th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
Usually Emily covers the farm bill kinds of stories for us, but she’s away so I will take a stab at it.
Under the Cheney-Bush Administration, most federal agencies are almost out of a job, and exist only so that the industries they regulate can police themselves, hint hint, wink wink. We saw it with [...]
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Posted on May 10th, 2007 by Emily Oppenheimer
Let’s start this post out right. The Farm Bill is not just about farms: it’s about giving eaters real consumer choice, putting healthy food in school cafeterias, taking care of the people that grow and prepare our food, and ensuring access to food stamps. It’s about our tax dollars. It’s about our environment. It’s about [...]
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Posted on May 6th, 2007 by Emily Oppenheimer
The Safe Food Act of 2007 has just been submitted by Rep. DeLauro and Sen. Durbin. The act aims to create a single Food Safety Administration that differs from the FDA in that it’s not made of a mix of agencies and businesses with conflicting priorities and goals. And the Food Safety Administration would be [...]
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