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...injunction was denied, but the charges of racism were not a complete surprise at the Department of Agriculture--even to Shirley Watkins, the USDA Under Secretary of Food and Nutrition, who happens to be black. In recent years, food activists with a reasonable point to make--whether it be the fatty meals in restaurants, the dangers of genetically modified crops or the risks of a milk-rich diet--have increasingly relied on rhetorical bomb throwing to make sure they get heard. Or, in the case of one antibiotech group, real fire bombs...
...USDA charges Beatty-Cole circus with elephant abuse...
...USDA ready for an Oprah-style trial, deep in the cattle-raising heart of Texas? They'd better be. According to a recent Associated Press report, head honchos at the Agriculture Department want to soften long-standing restrictions on soy as a meat replacement. The agency proposed using soy as an alternative to some of the meats in school lunch menus. American school refectories, which depend heavily on pork, poultry and beef, have been hard-pressed to meet government limits for fat content in lunches, even as school-age children gain weight at a record pace. Predictably, ranchers, chicken...
Although its public relations department may not realize it, the USDA has some great ammunition against the inevitable charges that it's introducing un-American food products into our school systems. Back in the 1980s, members of the Reagan administration introduced soy as a possible cost-cutting ingredient for school lunches. The soy proposal, which suffered an early demise at the hands of those who opposed Reagan's spending cuts, was also doomed by its association with the President's infamous insistence that as far as school lunchrooms were concerned, ketchup could be considered a vegetable. Today, however, once-skeptical...
...balked at irradiation in foods--even though it's government approved--because it involves powerful gamma rays emitted by radioactive isotopes. Now Titan Corp. in San Diego, Calif., has invented a meat pasteurization system that uses electron beams instead. Approved by the FDA and awaiting final regulations from the USDA, electronically pasteurized meat should be in selected test markets by year...