Food & Health – Week of 8.23.09

**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday it has abandoned a program that was intended to trace the movement of farm animals around the country

… By Nines I am still in the belly of the beast, but at least it’s at my safety zone in the Berkeley hills instead

Organizations in the financial services sector have deployed at least 1,447 former federal employees to lobby Congress and federal agencies since the beginning of 2009, according

Greg Hunter and I had a spirited debate regarding the recent Iran deal on his website, usawatchdog.com. Grossly oversimplified, Greg opposed the deal while I