Post Tagged 'USDA'

August 16, 2021

America’s meat industry needs more freedom, less federal control

In the early 17th century, Calvinist philosopher Johannes Althusius put a distinctly Christian spin on earlier concepts of political subsidiarity. Althusius visualized civil bodies as not parts of a whole, but critical and complete entities in themselves. Continue Reading...

December 23, 2014

Food Stamp Sticker Shock

Grocery shopping is not a chore I enjoy. It’s a mundane task, and everything you buy you will have to soon replace. Then, when you finally get to the end of the chore, you look at the register and think, “HOW much??” Continue Reading...

July 18, 2013

For His Next Trick, the Magician Will Pull a Rabbit Disaster Plan Out of His Hat . . .

Pulling a rabbit out of a hat is a classic magic trick. But if a magician wants to do it nowadays he also needs to be able to pull out a license for the hare and a USDA-approved “rabbit disaster plan” that details how the bunny will hop to safety in case of a natural disaster, like a hurricane, flood, or sharknado. Continue Reading...

March 09, 2011

Food or Fuel?

A big report is due out tomorrow which may have a positive or negative impact on economies across the globe. These numbers are not coming from the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the London Stock Exchange, or any other stock exchange; they are actually coming from a report being released by the U.S. Continue Reading...