Another example of political folly masquerading as public health is the role of the Agriculture Department.
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At the Agriculture Department, there are jobs protecting the nation's food supply and fighting hunger.
Oct. 8: For a second month running, the Agriculture Department cut its forecast for US corn production.
That change is aimed at reducing the amount of saturated fat consumed by children, according to the Agriculture Department.
In June the agriculture department noted that ethanol plants have become more efficient.
You want me to listen to an entire speech given by the the rural development director for the Agriculture Department in Georgia?
On Oct. 8, when the Agriculture Department cut its forecast for the US corn crop, shares of Tyson, the chicken producer, dropped 6%.
Yet it's the Agriculture Department among all the agencies in government charged with voicing the national advice on what Americans should eat to stay healthy.
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Industries the Agriculture Department deals with like wheat, sugar, cattle, etc.
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It is his department that will get the blame if we get fined yet he cannot force the agriculture department to do what he says.
Thousands of public-health experts, scientists, physicians, nurses and other health experts work for the federal government, but most of them don't work in the Agriculture Department.
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The poultry processing giant is regulated by the Agriculture Department.
"Evidence shows that our systems and safeguards to prevent BSE are working, as are similar actions taken by countries around the world, " said John Clifford, the Agriculture Department's chief veterinarian.
The Agriculture Department does not receive the paperwork from banks until after the grain is actually shipped, and department officials said they did not know who had made the loans.
But Allan Jennings, the director of the Agriculture Department's Office of Pest Management Policy, insists this year's crop of apples and produce that have been sprayed with the chemicals are safe.
To combat such ads, the Agriculture Department has approved a program that will add a 15 cent fee to each real tree sold, with the funding going toward future marketing campaigns to promote real Christmas trees.
But within those numbers, the Agriculture Department believes that there are about half a million to a million children who in fact do during the course of the year have to miss meals and don't get enough nutritious food.
The Agriculture Department confirmed the first case of mad cow disease in America on December 23, 2003, in a cow born in Alberta, Canada, in April 1997, only four months before the United States and Canada began banning the use of brain and spinal cord tissue in cattle feed.
The operation involved the Department of Agriculture, Department of Health and Social Services, the PSNI and Revenue and Customs.
In Mississippi, from the farm to the grocery, the convenience store to the restaurant, all food is already regulated to ensure safety by divisions of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration, the state Department of Health and the state Department of Agriculture and Commerce.
This week we've tapped two big government agencies, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Homeland Security.
After the Sept. 11 attacks, screening duties were taken away from the Department of Agriculture and given to the new Department of Homeland Security.
Working with local leadership, the President is proposing to align a number of his signature revitalization initiatives from the Department of Education, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Justice, and the Department for Agriculture to ensure that federal programs and resources are focused intensely on 20 communities hardest hit by the recession.
Bradley said enforcement of laws banning anti-competitive activities in the livestock industry should be moved from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to the Justice Department.
The Secretary of Agriculture employs a number of people to carry out the duties and the functions of the Department of Agriculture.
Mr. Davidson, from the West Virginia agriculture department, says the housewife in the rival state is exaggerating.
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By 2003 another group of neighbors had filed suit and even the federal epa had gotten into the act, and the state agriculture department revoked Buckeye's operating permits.
The assembly's agriculture committee is receiving an emergency briefing by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development officials on Tuesday afternoon.
That's the word from the Department of Agriculture a day after news about infected British beef triggered off an international scare.
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