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Recovery Housing Program For Rural Areas Launched By USDA, HHS
The Fix | Posted onMarch 13, 2019 in Rural NewsA new federal program will allow nonprofit organizations to purchase homes in rural communities for use as transitional housing for individuals in recovery from substance use disorder. The initiative is a joint effort between the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and aims to address the national opioid crisis by providing greater access and support to rural areas, which have shouldered a substantial portion of the epidemic's overdose and death tolls.
Go Home to Your ‘Dying’ Hometown
The New York Times | Posted onMarch 13, 2019 in Rural NewsI feel conflicted about my role here. Rural places like this one are facing countless questions about the economy, about identity and about the environment. It’s hard to know what we need to be stewards of and sustain, and what we need to let go or confront, to build a strong future. I am what you might call a “homecomer.” Over the last eight years, I have found that my homecoming story is not unique.
KY sends bill on cultured "meat" labeling to the Governor
Ky Legislature | Posted onMarch 13, 2019 in Food, SARL Members and Alumni NewsAmend KRS 217.035 to include any food product that purports to be or is represented as meat or a meat product that contains any cultured animal tissue produced from in vitro animal cell cultures outside of the organism from which it is derived.
Agriculture Department Staff Given Marching Orders for Controversial Move
Government Executive | Posted onMarch 12, 2019 in Federal NewsHundreds of employees of two key Agriculture Department research offices on Tuesday learned that they’re on the list to be transferred outside of Washington as part of Secretary Sonny Perdue’s disputed plan to move operations closer to farm industry stakeholders.
Census Bureau quietly seeking immigrants' legal status: report
The Hill | Posted onMarch 12, 2019 in Federal NewsThe Census Bureau is quietly seeking information on millions of immigrants’ legal status, The Associated Press reported.
Study sees beef cattle emissions not significant to global warming
Meating Place (Free registration required) | Posted onMarch 12, 2019 in Energy NewsUSDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has completed a life cycle analysis of beef cattle production in the United States that concluded cattle convert feed about as efficiently as pork and poultry and are not large contributors to global warming.
New York expands ‘Meatless Mondays’ for school meals
Meating Place (Free registration required) | Posted onMarch 12, 2019 in Food NewsSchoolchildren in New York City will be dining on all-vegetarian breakfast and lunch meals every Monday, starting with the 2019-2020 school year, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced this week. The move follows a pilot program launched in the spring of 2018 at 15 public schools in Brooklyn and ultimately will affect an estimated 1.1 million students.Mayor de Blasio said that “cutting back on meat a little will improve New Yorkers’ health and reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” while announcing the program.
25 percent of consumers say no to meaty names for vegetarian items
Meating Place (Free registration required) | Posted onMarch 12, 2019 in Food NewsIn a survey of nearly 1,000 U.K. and U.S. consumers, one in four indicate that vegetarian products should not be allowed to have meat-related names like burger, sausage or steak. The survey, commissioned by public relations agency Ingredient Communications, polled vegetarians, vegans, pescatarians and meat-eaters to explore attitudes to the way meat-free products are named.The survey also found that 18 percent of vegetarians, 33 percent of vegans and 26 percent of meat-eaters would support a ban on labeling vegetarian products with meat-related names.
For 3rd straight year, Trump proposes massive USDA cuts
Daily Yonder | Posted onMarch 12, 2019 in Federal NewsThe Trump administration’s latest budget recommendation for USDA looks a lot like proposals that failed to pass a Republican-controlled Congress for two years running.
NH House passes death penalty repeal by a veto-proof margin
Union Leader | Posted onMarch 12, 2019 in SARL Members and Alumni Newshe New Hampshire Legislature took a big step toward repeal of the death penalty on Thursday, with a veto-proof vote of 279-88 in support of House Bill 455.The bill revokes the existing capital punishment statute and replaces it with a penalty of life in prison without the possibility of parole for murder of a police officer or other capital offenses.New Hampshire currently has one person on death row — Michael Addison.