This originally appeared as a guest post at Fed Up with Lunch on June 8. Can you name a federal program that provides vital services to 10 percent of the U.S. population every day, yet has not a single reporter from the mainstream media assigned to cover it on a sustained basis? That would be the […]
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My mother didn’t raise me to be a lobbyist. But there I was on Wednesday, jawboning congressmen and aides to the U.S. Senate on the virtues of legislation that would give the U.S. Department of Agriculture authority to prohibit junk food in the nation’s schools. Say bye, bye to vending machines spewing chips, candy bars, sugary […]
Does red meat cause cancer? How about heart disease? Or could we solve global warming if we just stopped eating beef? Every day the headlines declare another reason not to eat meat. But I’m thinking of three million reasons why red meat has been very, very good to the human race. That would be about […]
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