Topic: U.S. Department of Agriculture

Use the Pyramid to Get Healthy

You keep reading and hearing about eating healthier and getting regular exercise to improve your health but you don?t know where to go to get started. Instead of buying the latest diet book or investing in exercise equipment or a health club membership why don?t you consider a ...
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Summary Box: Gold retreats as euro concerns ease

Summary Box: Gold falls on easing currency concerns; Oil drops on mixed economic reportsGOLD DROPS: Gold prices continued to fall as concerns about the euro have eased. It's down nearly 4 percent in less than two weeks. OIL DOES TOO: Oil and other energy contracts fell after mixed economic ...
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Food and Farm Animal Welfare

Food and Farm Animal Welfare
FILE - In this Jan. 30, 2008, file photo, a worker throws a piece of meat among cattle carcass scraps dropped into a truck at the Hallmark Meat Packing slaughterhouse in Chino, Calif. In May 2008, the Agriculture Department banned the slaughter of cows too sick or weak to stand, since ...
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Lawmakers probe lax enforcement of animal rules

Lawmakers, GAO probe lax enforcement of animal welfare rules following slaughterhouse abuseThe knives at the slaughterhouse weren't properly sanitized, a government investigator said, and employees at the meatpacking plant didn't know how to test the carcasses of days-old veal calves for a dangerous pathogen. Food safety conditions were ...
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