The global youth media company Vice has launched a new documentary series about how politics and policy affect what we eat. “The Politics of Food” is available through Vice’s online food channel, Munchies, and
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Pelosi Slams GOP on Food Safety: ‘This is the E. coli club’
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) sharply criticized Republicans for not supporting food safety funding at a voters forum in Florida on Monday. The former House Speaker called Republicans “the E. coli club” for their
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Food and Ag Leaders to Launch National Food Policy Scorecard
The Environmental Working Group announced on Thursday that a group of food and agriculture policy leaders are forming a new nonprofit that “for the first time will hold lawmakers in Congress accountable” for important votes
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House Panel Approves Bill To Keep FDA Funding Flat
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture Wednesday approved funding for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for fiscal year 2013 with no new funding for food safety. 
The bill
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2012: The Year to Stop Playing Nice
Instead of a potentially depressing year-in-review post, I decided to look ahead. (But do see Andy Bellatti’s amusing compilation of 2011 food news.) Given all the defeats and set-backs this year due to powerful food
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Simon Says
Michele Simon is turning into a pretty regular contributor to Food Safety News.
In recent weeks she has had two opinion pieces on the evil McDonald’s empire that is preying on kids by offering