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USDA puts $55.2 million into expanded meat and poultry access

By Dan Flynn on June 23, 2021

Six years after Rep. Thomas Massie, R-KY, first introduced the PRIME Act to exempt so-called custom slaughtering from federal inspection and allow farmers to produce food for restaurants, grocery stores, and hotels, an alternative has…
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Letter from the Editor: Polis has brisket rub recipe and food freedom credentials

By Dan Flynn on March 19, 2021
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Jared Polis is governor of Colorado. He is an interesting fellow.

We called him to the attention of readers of Food Safety News when he was serving in Congress because of his association with…
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Was that pasteurization vote with or without representation?

By News Desk on June 6, 2018

Some might consider putting Congress on record for or against raw milk as an accomplishment, especially it the vote wasn’t close. An amendment to House Resolution 2 that sought to allow raw milk shipments between…
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House members ignore party lines, defeat raw milk measure

By Coral Beach on May 21, 2018

A representative from Kentucky said it was about consumers’ food choices. A coalition of food safety groups said it was a threat to public health — particularly children. The U.S. House just said no.

With…
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Food Freedom Bill Aims to Turn Back Time to 1967

By News Desk on August 26, 2015

Even though their two raw milk bills have gone nowhere, a bipartisan “food freedom caucus” in Congress has decided to expand its federal agenda. In a campaign helped by Virginia farmer and author Joel Salatin,…
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KY Republican Puts Together Left-Right Coalition to Allow Interstate Raw Milk Sales

By Dan Flynn on March 28, 2014

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 are but the first in a…
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