The US Food Stamp Program is a federal assistance program that provides food to low income people living in the United States. Benefits are distributed by the individual states, but the program is administered through the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Most food stamp benefits are now distributed using Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards but for most of its history the program has used paper vouchers of some kind.

Police Department hosting international conference. This weekend the Rastafari Agriculture and Cultural Food Fair… and Jeremy G. concedes defeat - beaches and rum ARE better in the US Virgin Islands.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture yesterday asked U.S. farmers to keep their cloned animals off the market indefinitely even as Food and Drug Administration officials announced that food from cloned livestock is safe to eat.

The Department of Agriculture has proposed 38 ingredients that could be put in "USDA organic"-labeled foods even though they are not grown organically. Here is the list of ingredients, where they come from, what foods they can be found in, who petitioned for their inclusion on the list and why.

On September 9th, 2007 several planes hired by the State of California Food and Agricultural Department (CDFA) flying at an altitude of approximately 500ft sprayed the untested biochemical, CheckMate®OLR-F, on over 30,000 citizens in Monterey and other surrounding cities in California. This occurred without the permission of the citizens.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Statistical Abstract, the average family spends $103 on groceries each week, which means that nearly 14 percent of that bill never makes it to the dinner table due to improper storage techniques. This results in dumping the equivalent of more than 21 million shopping bags full of food into landfills