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Find Your Farmers' Market With the USDA's National Directory
Looking for a local farmers' market? The federal government now has an app for that.
Lifestyle
Map: Do You Live in a Food Desert?
Calling all cartographers! Using the USDA's data, you can map the connection between farmers' markets and food deserts in your neighborhood.
Lifestyle
Government Releases New "Dietary Guidelines for Americans"
Summary: Americans just need to eat less. But hidden beneath the scientific language, the government is actually calling for a food revolution.
Education
USDA School-lunch Contest's Glaring Omission? Meat
The USDA has launched a school-lunch contest and beef industry is none too happy about it. Should the call for recipes have included lean meats?
Lifestyle
Behold MyPlate, the USDA's New Food Icon
Meet the food pyramid's replacement, MyPlate, a simple schematic that's designed to show parents what dinner should actually look like.
Lifestyle
How to Read Natural and Organic Product Labels
Get out your loupe, because it's time to read some labels. This is by far the hardest thing to do when it comes to choosing personal care...
Environment
New Microloans Could Give Young Farmers the Capital They Need
Beginning farmers don’t need much money to get started. But until now, the USDA had no way of giving them any loans at all.
Lifestyle
Food Price Watch: Riots in Algeria; Mexican Government Buys Maize Futures
Sugar, meat, and cereal prices reach record levels as economists warn of global food riots by Easter.
Lifestyle
Before MyPlates and Pyramids There Was the 1943 "Food Wheel"
The war-era food wheel shows just how dramatically the government's approach to food guidelines has changed.
Lifestyle
Pyramids, Plates, and Pagodas: Dietary Guidelines From Around the World
As the USDA updates the food pyramid to match its new Dietary Guidlines, check out what a healthy diet looks like around the world.
Lifestyle
Beyond the Food Desert Mirage
The link between food deserts and health is far from absolute, so maybe it's time to focus on the bottom line: more affordable food.
Lifestyle
What Would You Add to the New USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans?
Lifestyle
Spider Webs and the Battle Over Federal Caffeine Limits
One hundred years ago, the predecessor of the FDA had no data on how caffeine affects humans. Unbelievably, the same is pretty much true today.
Lifestyle
Building Food Plates Where the Food Pyramid Once Stood
Three food plates that made way for the new food pyramid's replacement.
Lifestyle
Winning the Future with Salmon
That line that got the most laughs during Obama's State of the Union actually raises an important issue about our broken food regulatory system.
Lifestyle
The 'Wacky' USDA Ad Campaign to Get You to Separate Your Meat and Veggies
Three thousand people are likely to die from food poisoning this year. But will this naughty chicken be able to do anything about it?
Lifestyle
It's Official: Organic Cows Need Grass
We've long been fans of greenery-based diets for cows, because eating alfalfa and grass mitigates the concentration of methane in the animals'...
Education
Chicago's Snowpocalypse: Bad News for Hungry Kids
Everybody loves a snow day—unless you come from a low-income background and qualify to receive free breakfast and lunch at school.
