USDA Announces New Initiate to Build Farm-to-School “Tactical Teams” around the country
New Farm-to-School Tactical Teams Will Assist School Administrators Transition to Purchasing More Locally Grown Foods as Part of USDA's 'Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Initiative'

For more information visit the USDA's full release here.

In depth article about the true price of industrial food

If you have ever wondered about the price of food, why supermarket food can be so much cheaper than local food, this article explains the unseen costs and the ways we end up paying for it in the end.

Mass production of food is ruining our health, environment, and taste buds. How did this happen?

Joel Salatin editorial: Science is Killing Us

Head over to the Food Democracy blog to read Joel Salatin´s take on how the government is dictating what is and is not safe about the food we eat.

From the article:

Only government food is safe food. Sound science dictates what is
safe. No other standard will do. Only T-bone steaks wrapped in
million-dollar, agriculturally prohibited, quintuple-permitted,
government-sanctioned processing facilities are fit for human
consumption. I cant buy a pound cake from a neighbor girl who whipped
it up and baked it in the family kitchen. Thats not safe. Sound
science has thus decreed.

But Coca-Cola is safe. McDonalds Happy Meals are safe. So is
irradiated food. Genetic engineering is the darling of sound science.
And until just a couple of months ago, sound science decreed that
feeding brains and spinal cords to herbivores was state-of-the-art
technology. Now the denizens of the ivory towers are debating whether
or not to eliminate the feeding of chicken manure and dead chicken
carcasses to herbivores. Rest assured, when the edict comes down from
the powers that be, it will be based on sound science.

-"Sound science is Killing us" by Joel Salatin on fooddemocracy.wordpress.com