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Senators removed funding cuts to Food for Peace, as well as to other programs that buy grain from American farmers.
Members of Congress, led by Senator Adam Schiff, say the plan is illegal and are demanding that USDA scrap it.
The agency is eliminating the Regional Food Business Centers, a program meant to help small farms and other food businesses ...
A new state law establishes protections for immigrant families against housing discrimination, aiding farmworkers.
The second MAHA report is due next month. Here’s how the Trump administration's actions have directly contradicted MAHA's ...
In Carpinteria, farm staff told a local news station that 10 workers had been detained. There, federal agents threw ...
The bill also strengthens EPA authority around pesticide labeling, which could prevent states from adopting their own versions of labels.
The Biden-era guidelines required school meal programs to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
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July 14, 2025 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials have rescinded Biden-era guidelines that required schools administering federal meal programs to prohibit discrimination based on gender ...
July 14, 2025 – House Representatives Jan Schakowsky (D-Illinois) and Rosa DeLauro (D-Connecticut) reintroduced a bill last week that would create a new system for evaluating the safety of food ...