Articles Tagged with ''food''

On this Thanksgiving Day, let’s not fail to appreciate our nation and our people.

The European Union Court of Justice’s recent decision that new gene-editing techniques must go through the same lengthy approval process as traditional transgenic genetically modified plants has sent shock waves around the world and its greatest impact will be on those who are hungry and food insecure.

Soil quality has long been defined by measurable physical and chemical attributes.

To improve food security in Sub-Saharan Africa and many other regions of the world, agricultural production systems need to be transformed.

Food insecurity in the United States fell last year from 12.3 percent to 11.8 percent of U.S. households, the sixth straight year of declines following the 2007 recession, USDA's Economic Research Service reported today.

The USDA has discovered that a cow in Florida was infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), more commonly known as mad cow disease, according to government and industry officials. A USDA spokesman confirmed that the Florida cow suffered the rare "atypical" type of BSE that is believed to develop randomly in cows.

USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service has issued a proposed rule to implement the landmark legislation requiring some form of disclosure of biotech ingredients on food packaging.

In many ways, the sustainability story of the American farmer mirrors that of every other American.