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Baby formula shortage shows risk of US industry concentration

Formula isn’t just for babies. April Crohare desperately needs it for her 14-year-old son, Charlie. Due to medical complications from a rare brain disorder called lissencephaly, his only source of nutrition comes from infant formula through a feeding tube.

Tribune News Service

America's Families Still Revile USDA-Funded School Lunches

The central planning of America's public school lunch menus has been a disaster.

Reason

Biden administration ‘cutting red tape’ to ease baby formula shortage

‘We recognise that this is certainly a challenge for people across the country’

The Independent UK

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Report criticizes meat industry, USDA response to pandemic

A new Congressional report says that at the height of the pandemic, the meat processing industry worked closely with political appointees in the Trump administration to stave off health restrictions and keep slaughterhouses open even as COVID-19 spread rapidly among workers

The Independent UK

Trump officials and meat industry blocked life-saving Covid controls, investigation finds

Congressional investigation reveals the lengths meat industry went to downplay risks to workers and lobby receptive Trump officials

The Guardian - US

GMOs Are Good for Us

The activists who say otherwise are wrong on the costs and wrong on the science.

Reason

Deer resistant plants – 20 flowers and shrubs that deer hate

Discover an array of beautiful, deer resistant plants to keep your garden safe from local wildlife

Homes & Gardens

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Bird flu takes unheard-of toll on bald eagles, other birds

Bird flu is killing an alarming number of bald eagles and other wild birds, with many sick birds arriving at rehabilitation centers unsteady on their talons and unable to fly

The Independent UK

120,000 pounds of ground beef recalled

Over 100,000 pounds of ground beef have been recalled over E. coli concerns

Salon

US egg factory roasts alive 5.3m chickens in avian flu cull – then fires almost every worker

Laborers worked for a month disposing of birds killed in a gruesomely inhumane manner. Then they found they too were disposable

The Guardian - US

Colorado declared “primary natural disaster area,” USDA says, unlocking aid for farmers

Facing a decades-long megadrought, Colorado is considered by the federal government to be a primary natural disaster area.

Tribune News Service

U.S. agencies direct $670 million to international food aid in wake of Ukraine invasion

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will together contribute nearly $700 million to international food aid efforts in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the agencies said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Callery pears: An invader 'worse than murder hornets!'

A stinky but handsome and widely popular landscape tree has become an aggressive invader

The Independent UK

Bird flu drives free-range hens indoors to protect poultry

Some farmers are wondering if it's OK that eggs sold as free-range come from chickens being kept inside

The Independent UK

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How US forests affect the environment and help stabilize the climate

There are more forests in the US than a century ago

The Guardian - US

Bird flu spreads to bald eagles as outbreak sweeps across US

Avian sickness responsible for millions of deaths in commercial poultry farms in worst outbreak since 2015

Tribune News Service

USDA identifies new bird flu cases in Pennsylvania, Utah

New cases of bird flu have been detected in a commercial chicken flock in Pennsylvania and a backyard flock in Utah, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Saturday, in what is one of the worst outbreaks in the country’s history.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Our pending farmland crisis

Luckily for my family, we get along. So when it came to deciding what to do with our farm, we agreed to form a trust to keep the land together.

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Highly pathogenic avian influenza found in Colorado chickens

Highly pathogenic avian influenza has been found in a non-commercial backyard poultry flock in Colorado, the USDA confirmed in a statement on Saturday, amid the worst U.S. outbreak of the virus in seven years.

The Guardian - US

Millions of bird deaths as US hit by avian flu outbreak

US officials believe nearly 24m poultry birds, mostly chickens and turkeys, have died of flu since virus strain identified in February

Salon

More schools offer plant-based meals

Despite many challenges, schools are focusing on equity and nutrition in an effort to feed kids more options

The Independent UK

Bird flu's grisly question: how to kill millions of poultry

When cases of bird flu are found on poultry farms officials act quickly to slaughter all the birds in that flock even when it numbers in the millions, but animal welfare groups say their methods are inhumane

The Conversation

Bird flu is killing millions of chickens and turkeys across the US

An outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in chicken and turkey flocks has spread across 24 U.S. states since it was first detected in Indiana on Feb. 8, 2022. Better known as bird flu, avian influenza is a family of highly contagious viruses that are not harmful to wild birds…

Salon

Everybody blames Mitch McConnell

Republicans are angling to nix the waivers from President Biden's federal budget for 2023

Los Angeles Times

Frank Shyong: Border patrol officials couldn't explain how seizures of Chinese jerky prevent disease, so let me try

The email from U.S. Customs and Border Protection landed in my inbox with a dire warning.

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