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Dietary Guidelines and Good Gut Health May. 26, 2023
Good gut health may be as simple as following the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, updated every fi... Read More
Where's the Beef? Jul. 20, 2022
How can it be that with so much cattle in America, we sometimes can't buy meat? At the beginning of ... Read More
GMO Plants Are Good May. 19, 2021
Q: As a Master Gardener, I'm disheartened your article on pest control is promoting GMO plants as a ... Read More
We Can Push Biden for Fundamental Change Feb. 10, 2021
We've put Joe Biden in the White House ... but what do we get back for that? We get a real possibili... Read More
Who Cares Who the Secretary of Agriculture Is? Dec. 02, 2020
Years ago, Robert Kennedy noted that making economic, political and social progress is hard because ... Read More
Eat Your Fruits and Veggies -- but How Many? Jul. 26, 2019
We all know fruits and vegetables are healthy, and most of us should eat more of them than we do. Bu... Read More
Chicken Labeling at the Supermarket: Prepare to Be Surprised May. 16, 2019
If you've ever stood in the supermarket wondering if paying more for chicken that is free-range, ant... Read More
Oh, SNAP. What Is the USDA Doing? May. 03, 2019
The way SNAP is being run is a recipe for crime. SNAP is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Prog... Read More
Plan to Loosen Federal Inspection of Pork Is an Outbreak Waiting to Happen Apr. 08, 2019
Once again, the Trump administration is letting the foxes guard the chickens — or in this case... Read More
Plant Hardiness Zones Feb. 13, 2019
Q: In the past couple of years, we planted several kinds of evergreen and deciduous trees in our lan... Read More
The Battle of Budget Ideas Rages On Jun. 01, 2017
Love it or hate it, the recently proposed 2018 federal budget is dead on arrival. Some say that's be... Read More
Mail Order Gardening Jan. 04, 2017
January is National Mail Order Gardening Month. Have you gotten garden catalogs in the mail yet? If ... Read More
Catfish, the Other Cronyism Meat? Jun. 30, 2016
Cronyism is the ugly marriage between special interest groups and politicians, which results in an a... Read More
New Food Agency? Hold the Hysteria Feb. 24, 2015
As things now stand, the U.S. Department of Agriculture oversees steaks, chicken thighs and eggs out... Read More
Reading Between the Lines for GMOs Jul. 25, 2014
Q: I enjoyed your insights on allergies, especially food allergies. But what can we do to protect ou... Read More
Hatching Bigger Government Aug. 28, 2010
There have been a lot of unsurprising news stories lately. Rod Blagojevich going on TV. Tiger Woods ... Read More
