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Investigative Journalism
Reuters
September 9, 2026

Indian Food Industry Challenges Proposed Nutrition-Warning Thresholds in Supreme Court

India’s food-processors association asked the Supreme Court to review proposed red warning labels triggered when packaged foods exceed limits in at least two of three categories: added sugar, salt or saturated fat. It says the thresholds are too strict and should be measured per serving.
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Investigative Journalism
Associated Press
September 8, 2026

FDA Foreign Food Inspections Fell 35% as Cyclospora Outbreak Exposed Oversight Gaps

AP found FDA inspections of foreign food facilities have fallen nearly 35% since 2019, including at a Mexican farm linked by U.S. officials to a nationwide Cyclospora outbreak. Inspectors arrived a month after the lettuce recall and had not visited the farm since 2019.
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Investigative Journalism
Vox
September 9, 2026

Investigation Finds $66 Million Pipeline From Mandatory Pork Checkoff to Industry Lobby

Vox found that $66 million in mandatory pork checkoff funds moved from the National Pork Board to the National Pork Producers Council since 2004 through trademark and real-estate deals. Critics say the arrangements subsidize lobbying that can work against smaller and higher-welfare hog farmers.
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Government Rulemaking
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
August 28, 2026

EPA Exempts New Pesticide Surfactant From Numerical Residue Limits

EPA exempted a sucrose-fatty-acid surfactant from a numerical residue tolerance when used at no more than 12% of preharvest pesticide formulations. EPA said available data showed no toxicological endpoint of concern, including for infants and children.
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News Reporting
Reuters
August 28, 2026

Trump Plans Order to Expand Independent Meat Processing, but Details Remain Unreleased

President Trump said legal documents are being drafted to let farmers and ranchers process more of their own meat. USDA also promised changes allowing more interstate sales, added support for small processors and withdrawal of outdated guidance, but no order or policy text had been released.
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Soil Health

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Peer-Reviewed Study
Sustainability (MDPI)
March 9, 2023

Soil Properties Explained More Microbial Variation Than Plant Diversity on Mine Spoil Heaps

On Polish post-coal mine spoil heaps, researchers found soil properties explained 23% of variation in microbial biomass, compared with 12% for plant diversity. Substrate pH was the strongest measured driver, and plots further along in early succession had the greatest microbial biomass.
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The Health of the Land Determines the Health of the Herd

Research shows that human health is greatly impacted by soil heath.

  • 90% of the Earth’s topsoil is likely to be at serious risk by 2050 if we fail to take action.
  • Today’s fruits and vegetables are 11% to 81% less nutritious since the 1930’s as a result of depleted soils.
  • In the past 100 years alone, 75% of global food crop varieties and over 93% of U.S. vegetable seed diversity have disappeared.

With chronic disease and environmental degradation on the rise, it’s urgent that we restore soil health —the foundation for healthy people, communities, and democracies.

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At United We Eat, we believe that food is medicine and that access to healthy food is the foundation for individual health, community well-being, and a fair, just, and democratic society.
 
Every week, United We Eat delivers the latest news, research, and analysis to cut through the fog of misinformation from Big Food and Big Pharma — empowering you to live better, eat healthier, and take part in rebuilding America’s food system.
FOOD
“People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.”
— Wendell Berry
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HEALTH
"One quarter of what you eat keeps you alive. The other three quarters keeps your doctor alive.”
— Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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DEMOCRACY

“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself”
— President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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