USDA’s Farm Service Agency makes loans to family farms that are categorically exempt (“CatEx”) from the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”), which permits agencies to make such exemptions.
Since
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Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Eating Animals, discussed the high incidence of foodborne illness and the state of American agriculture on The Colbert Report last week.
“Why should I become
Two more popular television shows have recently disparaged agriculture, according to some who write from rural America.
Broadcasting false and disparaging information about agriculture could still land television personalities in