Two Democratic state lawmakers representing mostly rural parishes are getting a legislative hearing today on a raw milk bill. If that does not sound like much, consider that Baton Rouge
A left-right libertarian coalition led by U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is sponsoring two bills in Congress to permit the interstate sales of raw milk. Massie says the bills
A new report published by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor questions whether inspection of restaurants and other retail food establishments are doing enough to prevent foodborne illness in the Bayou State.
Lao Chareune Foods in Dallas, Texas is recalling approximately 8,200 pounds of beef and pork products because they were produced without the benefit of federal inspection and misbranded, the
Fourteen people became ill with norovirus after eating Gulf oysters at a New Orleans area restaurant on April 28 and 29, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) announced
Coming a year after an oil spill and six years after a hugely damaging hurricane, the Gulf oyster industry fears too much fresh water coming down the Mississippi River could
When it was built just before the Civil War, the Nottoway Plantation House had about 80 acres of front yard between it and the Mississippi River. Today a dike that
BATON ROUGE, LA — A year after the Deepwater Horizon oil platform explosion and BP oil spill, the biggest thing in the environment impacting anglers is the wind.
Louisiana’s coastal
New Orleans is back.
Let me explain. The first trip I made here was in 2009, four years after Hurricane Katrina crippled the city by flooding 80 percent of the
In August, 2010, a half million pounds of sausages and hog head cheese were pulled off Louisiana grocery shelves in a recall triggered by what the state Department of Agriculture
A half million pounds of “ready to eat” sausages and hog headcheeses are being recalled in Louisiana for possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.
The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry’
The New Orleans Saints and the Obama administration tried to boost the battered Gulf seafood image yesterday during a ceremony to honor the team’s Superbowl victory.
As federal and