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Wall St. Journal - Wildlife in Middle of War on E. Coli |
May 5, 2008
ROC 2007 Planning Fellow Jo Ann Baumgartner, director of the Wild Farm Alliance , sent us this May 2 article she has been working on with the Wall St. Journal on the residual effects of last years E. coli outbreaks on growing practices - particularly on farmers elimination of any possible on-farm wildlife habitat.
Read full article: Wildlife in Middle of War on E. Coli here.
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Bush Calls Yor you To "Buy Food From Local Farmers" At Press Conference |
May 5,2008
During a press conference last week with the President addressing our country’s current economic situation, President Bush suggests “buy local from local farmers” in response to a question regarding the U.S. role in making food more affordable around the world. Bush said, "One thing I think that would be -- I know would be very creative policy is if we -- is if we would buy food from local farmers as a way to help deal with scarcity, but also as a way to put in place an infrastructure so that nations can be self-sustaining and self-supporting. It's a proposal I put forth that Congress hasn't responded to yet, and I sincerely hope they do."
View press conference transcript here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/04/20080429-1.html
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Senate-House Conference Committee Adopts Chief Farm Bill Initiatives |
May 5, 2008
New Farm Bill is Basically Completed, Says Conference Committee Chairman
Senator Tom Harkin, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry and of the Senate-House conference committee on the new farm bill, today announced that the conference committee had agreed upon and approved all major elements of the new farm bill. Staff for the Senate and House agriculture committees and for conferees will continue to work through finalizing a few remaining issues and obtaining official budget scoring from the Congressional Budget Office. The completed legislation will have to be approved by both the Senate and House before being sent to the White House.
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New Retail Food Study Released |
May 5, 2008
California Center for Public Health Advocacy, PolicyLink and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research have released a new study on the retail food environment. It is available on their web sites at www.publichealthadvocacy.org and www.policylink.org and the UCLA Center www.healthpolicy.ucla.edu
We hope the study, Designed for Disease: The Link Between Local Food Environments and Obesity and Diabetes, proves useful in your work to reform local policy and improve access to healthy food.
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