New York Post, September 23, 2022 Biden’s hunger hubbub ignores the federal obesity fiasco By James Bovard President Joe Biden hosts a White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health next Thursday. He promises to “take bold steps to end hunger,” and his summit will likely unleash a torrent of demands for new federal […]
American Institute for Economic Research, May 10, 2011 Biden’s “America the Beautiful” Vision Ignores Feds’ Dreadful Record by James Bovard Will Biden’s “America the Beautiful” program save America’s environment? On January 27, President Joe Biden issued an executive order proclaiming “the goal of conserving at least 30 percent of our lands and waters by 2030.” […]
Reporters at major newspapers and magazines are hard to reach by telephone. Today it is increasingly hard to converse with them about timely scoops, leads, gaps in coverage, and corrections to published articles. We started an online webpage: Reporter’s Alert. From time to time, we will use Reporter’s Alert to present suggestions for important reporting […]
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source CHINA IS EATING OUR LUNCH! – We Are Losing the Food War! Other countries are protecting their food supplies. Argentina, Russia, and Ukraine have all stopped exporting to be able to feed their people. Yet the USA continues to export hand-over-fist to China — based on the data from the USDA. How is this […]
The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal sponsored a debate between myself and four of the leading academic activists on food insecurity among college students. Here is a list of those experts; my piece is reposted below.
Sara Goldrick-Rab is Professor of Higher Education Policy & Sociology at Temple University, and Founding Director of the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice in Philadelphia.
by Ronnie Cummins The Climate Emergency is finally getting the attention of the media and the U.S. (and world) body politic, as well as a growing number of politicians, activists and even U.S. farmers. This ...
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by Dave Chapman In the last 7 years there has been a quiet redefinition taking place in the USDA National Organic Program that oversees organic standards. Large scale industrial producers have insinuated themselves into organic ...
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(ANTIMEDIA) — An animal rights group is suing the USDA over its alleged refusal to release information related to a controversial program that has euthanized nearly 3,000 cats since 1982. The White Coat Waste Project challenges animal experiments funded with taxpayer dollars and recently filed a lawsuit claiming the USDA “continues to wrongfully withhold the requested records.” Those records concern […]
Lab-grown mini-brains, game-changing coffee deals and the devastating Brazilian museum fire + this day in history w/Squeaky Fromme's assassination attempt and our song of the day by Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson & Merle Haggard on your Morning Monarchy for September 5, 2018.
The US federal government has unveiled a new plan to subsidize American farmers whose business plans just don’t factor current market conditions. The federal handouts are expressed as being in the multiple billions in a plan that is being implemented not in the case of some natural disaster, but in the interest of remunerating farmers for changes in the demand for their products. But farmers are saying that they don’t want a bailout, but rather that they are more interested in extensive market stability.
