View from Washington: Armies of Animal Agriculture
By Steve Kopperud
Policy Directions, Inc.
June 2009, Render magazine
There is no doubt the animal rights movement is perhaps the biggest threat to animal agriculture. The unending attacks on the safe and effective technologies used on a daily basis to feed this country and a good chunk of the world are [...]

Agriculture’s next big challenge
By George Mcgovern and Marshall Matz
January 04, 2009
President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Iowa’s former Gov. Tom Vilsack to be his secretary of agriculture. Vilsack was an excellent choice, but some have criticized the appointment because he supports agricultural biotechnology and commercial agriculture. The critics assume that anyone who holds these views is [...]

A Letter to Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack
4255 S. Buckley Road, #178
Aurora, CO 80013
Phone: (800) 340-0737
Fax: (888) 356-5023

February 19, 2009
Honorable Tom Vilsack
Secretary of Agriculture
U. S. Department of Agriculture
1400 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20250
Dear Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack:
As Americans, we are both proud of our great nation and concerned for its future. We are facing catastrophic economic [...]

Jeffrey T. LeJeune and Pa¨ ivi J. Rajala-Schultz
Food Animal Health Research Program, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Wooster, and Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Columbus, Ohio
Although milk and dairy products are important components of a healthy diet, if consumed unpasteurized, they also can present a health hazard due to possible [...]