Food-safety activists are protesting the government's attempt to stack an organic-food advisory board with representatives of corporate agribusiness and food commerce. Earlier this month, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) tapped individuals who represent Campbell Soup Company, General Mills, Phillips Mushroom Farms, and Stahlbush Island Farms to join the fifteen-member panel. Full Story »
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Captures most viewpoints and documents it's claims well. Very complete set of source links in a box on the right side. However, it does not document what is specifically wrong with the chosen members, other than that they have jobs. I researched Tina Ellor and find that she has been an advocate for true organic foods, for example.
Another story about the administration appointing mice to guard the cheese. Well documented and explained.
This is great critical muckraking journalism. It is not the kind of journalism you will ever see on television where the members on this USDA committee from big agribusiness spend huge money on TV advertisement. This type of story can now only come from an independent, commercial free company like the "The New Standard". It develops the story of big business taking over a regulatory body the American Public needs if we are to know the truth about what we put in our bodies. Bravo for "The New Standard" is reporting this corruption of the government.
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