Beyond Pesticides

USDA Monitoring Report Declares Pesticide Residues in Food Supply Safe, Despite Science to the Contrary

USDA finds that over 57% of tested commodities contain at least one pesticide and that less than one percent of detected ...
NPR

Democratic lawmakers press USDA for answers on sensitive data collection

Democratic lawmakers expressed "deep concern" about the U.S. Department of Agriculture's intent to collect the personal data of tens of millions of federal food assistance recipients and sent ...
WUNC

States sue USDA over efforts to gather food stamp data on tens of millions of people

A coalition of 21 states and Washington, D.C. filed a lawsuit Monday against the U.S. Department of Agriculture after the federal agency told states to turn over the detailed, personal information of ...
NPR

At least 27 states turned over sensitive data about food stamp recipients to USDA

Since late July, most Democratic-led states have refused to give in to an unprecedented demand from the Trump administration to turn over personal information on federal food assistance recipients ...