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...ordinary people are not nutrition professionals. While some vegetarians have the full skinny on how to watch their riboflavin and vitamins D and B12, many more haven't a clue. This is one reason that vegetarians, in a study of overall nutrition, scored significantly lower than nonvegetarians on the USDA's Healthy Eating Index, which compares actual diet with USDA guidelines...
...years on the farm, no one had done something so silly as smoke hemp. What's more, the U.S. government had been his biggest buyer of hemp in the '40s. Cannabis-growing permits were plentiful during World War II because imports of other fibers dried up. In 1942 the USDA even produced a film, Hemp for Victory, to encourage farmers to plant hemp to meet wartime demand for rope...
...business: soybeans. A few years ago, U.S. soy exports to China were negligible. But last year China became the top buyer of U.S. soy products, purchasing $1 billion worth, much of it for animal feed. On the agenda in Shanghai was a dispute over whether China would temporarily accept USDA assurances about the safety of America's genetically modified soy crops. Jiang, wary of starting a trade dispute on the eve of China's WTO entry, acquiesced...
HUDS doesn’t adhere to the USDA guidelines, said Executive Chef for Residential Dining Michael Miller...
...Dining Services really don’t use the USDA pyramid. We try to provide a lot of options so that students can make their own choices,” Miller said...