Tag: usda

Just got this in an AP breaking news alert: SAN DIEGO (AP) Ousted USDA employee Shirley Sherrod says she will sue blogger Andrew Breitbart.

I want to take a post Marcy Wheeler did yesterday and change it to reflect my revised FPL I did in the previous post. 301% of Poverty Level: $66,370 Federal Taxes (estimate from this page, includes FICA): $8,628 (13% of income) State Taxes (using MI rates on $30,000 of income): $1,305 (2% of income) Food […]

That must be the reason for this: The Bush administration said yesterday that it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease. The Agriculture Department tests fewer than 1 percent of slaughtered cows for the disease, which can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. But Kansas-based Creekstone […]