Veteran journalist with 15+ years covering food safety. Dan has reported for newspapers across the West and earned Associated Press recognition for deadline reporting. At FSN, he serves as Senior Editor and covers foodborne illness policy.
Opinion
The Farmers to Families Food Box program is dead, killed by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. When it runs out of money later this month, it will have spent
When outrageous initiatives first roll-out, those targeted often take a wait-and-see attitude. Why worry until the measure earns a place on the ballot?
Since learning that animal
A bill with the Colorado Legislature’s unanimous support for an alternative way of acquiring meat within the state has hit a snag.
Before April 1, it looked like the
Ahead of their back-to-back habeas corpus hearings set for the final week of May in Albany, GA, brothers Stewart and Michael Parnell remain in federal custody.
Stewart, 66,
The national hepatitis A outbreak has not yet burned out. Since 2016, 35 states have reported 38,476 hepatitis A cases. Through April 2, 2021, 61 percent or 23,373
That “Montana Local Food Choice Act” is out of committee in its second house, showing all the signs of a bill that will cross the finish line. The Montana Legislature
Federal Judge Joan N. Ericksen last October held a 64-minute video hearing and then took the line speed case under advisement. Five months later, she has published a 68-
Today, the Oregon Legislative Assembly will again consider whether more sunshine might be the cure for some murky COVID-19 reporting.
The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) and local public health
If dividing the cow works to share the milk, why not divide the animal to share the meat outside concern about any niceties about regulations or inspections?
Colorado Senate Bill
“Oh give me land, lots of lands, and the starry skies above. Don’t fence me in…”
The Humane Society of the United States, Mercy for Animals, and Farm Sanctuary
In concept and use, ghost kitchens existed before the pandemic.
But in the year since the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020, declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)
