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Exploring the USDA's Food Desert Locator
Last week, the USDA released the Food Desert Locator, an interactive map which allows users to see where there is poor food access across the country. This map was inspired and influenced by Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign, and is meant to further educate Americans on food distribution in the country.New USDA Report Says You Can Eat Right for $2.50 a Day
Last week, the USDA released a new report that claims that you can eat your daily recommended intake of fruits and vegetables on only $2.50 per day. While this may still be out of the price range for some, others will be able to pick up pointers on how to better budget for produce. Let's read the fine print.USDA Unveils 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
Every five years, the United States Department of Agriculture releases updated nutritional guidelines for how Americans should eat. It's from this Dietary Guidelines for Americans that everyone from policy-makers to the media gleans its federally-sanctioned eating advice. As your calendar may indicate, the 2010 guidelines have been a bit delayed, but the USDA released the official report yesterday morning.USDA Mandates Nutrition Labeling for Meat
New rules passed by the USDA last week will necessitate nutrition labeling on raw meat, providing more accessible information for consumers.How the USDA Is Making Us Eat More Cheese
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has many responsibilities in overseeing the national agricultural industry. One of its most relevant duties is to provide accurate nutritional guidelines to Americans. The USDA formulates the food pyramid recommendations and oversees national food assistance programs. As an extension of these responsibilities, the USDA works to publicize healthier eating habits in an attempt to address our national health crises. Or at least, that's what we think they do.Serious Green: Upgrading School Lunch
[Photograph ©iStockphoto.com/apomares] School lunch in the district where I attended K-12 was, frankly, disgusting. I was lucky enough to come from a home where there was enough money and time for me to have a home-packed lunch every day. There were plenty of kids who loved the square sausage pizza and hermetically sealed PBJs, but I'm sure there were also plenty who would have gladly eaten something else had they not been on the free-lunch program. Now, it's pretty clear that no matter if my classmates liked it or not, they shouldn't have been eating the food the school was dishing up. Schools send a message to children with the foods that are served. The additives, preservatives, and sugar...U.S.-Bound Spanish Iberico Pata Negra Hams to Lose Black Hooves, Cost Double
Black-hooved Iberico pigs in Spain. Photograph from Shoes on Wires on Flickr About a year ago, Iberico hams, the most gourmet of Spanish piggies, were first sold in the United States. They arrived with black hooves on—a symbol of Spanish hospitality and a guarantee of Iberico authenticity. Now after a USDA ruling effective January 2009, all hams will arrive "pata negra sin pata" (without the telltale black hoof). To make it worse, the ruling added a punitive 100 percent tariff on all bone-in Iberico hams, which will double the price of any delivered after March 2009. So one of these ridiculously expensive (and seriously delicious) $1,400 hams will now set you back $2,800. Talk about starting the year off...Cooking With Kids: Food Pyramid for Preschoolers
What should your 2- to 5-year-old eat, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture? Beats me, because its website seems to have been put together by 2- to 5-year-olds, and when I tried to generate a custom pyramid for my 4-year-old daughter, all I got was “Could not download Redirect.aspx.” Maybe it will work better for you: Food Pyramid for Preschoolers I’m having a hard time understanding who this material is geared toward, other than fans of Comic Sans. According to the Chicago Tribune, “The new MyPyramid for Preschoolers is intended to help parents make better food choices for preschool children, aged 2 to 5 years—a critical time when food habits and taste preferences are established.” Really?...Move Over, Farmer's Almanac: Data Predicts Crop Growth
wired.com One of the US Department of Agriculture's jobs is to predict crop yields. To do so, they survey a sample of farmers, a method that doesn't appear to be the most effective. It's no surprise that agricultural consultancy company Lanworth is beating them at their own game. Wired reports that Lanworth, a small Illinois-based company, gets its information from satellite images, digital soil maps, and weather forecasts, allowing them to estimate harvests on an individual field scale. So far, these projections are proving to be spot-on. Last October, agricultural consultancy Lanworth not only correctly projected that the US Department of Agriculture had overestimated the nation's corn crop, it nailed the margin: roughly 200 million bushels. That's just 1.5 percent...Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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