December 17, 2025 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is ordering Minnesota to conduct more administrative oversight of its federal food assistance, threatening the state’s ability to participate in the program.

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December 17, 2025 – Senator Adam Schiff (D-California) will introduce legislation today to direct more than $500 million in federal support over the next five years toward research and development for “alternative proteins.”

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• Members of the Trump administration and the Make America Healthy Again movement have repeatedly criticized the process, and the advisory committee, behind the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA).

• These guidelines are an important tool for dietitians and used to shape federal nutrition programs like school me...

• Eva Clayton, the first Black woman to represent North Carolina in Congress, first found her calling during the Civil Rights era, in 1963, organizing farmers.

• She went on to serve five sequential terms in Congress, sitting on the Agricultural Committee throughout her tenure.

• Clayton p...

December 15, 2025 – Legislators in the House of Representatives passed a bill Monday that will allow public schools to serve both whole milk and non-dairy milks to students.

The Senate already passed the href="https://www.agriculture.senate.go...