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3 days ago | 
mdjonline.com | Dan Flynn
When governments, industries or businesses recruit, hire or promote employees based primarily on their skills, knowledge and abilities; they are operating on a system of merit. When they recruit, hire or promote based primarily on an employee’s race, gender, ethnicity, or social status, they are operating on a system of social equity. Each system has an underlying rationale that is in line with the employer’s values, and each reflects its own organization’s culture.
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3 days ago | 
foodsafetynews.com | Dan Flynn
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed Senate Bill 261, making the Lone Star State the seventh in the nation to ban lab-grown meat. Texas new law establishes a prohibition on the offering for sale and sale of cell-cultured protein for human consumption and provides civil and criminal penalties. The law will take effect on Sept. 1; unless extended, the prohibition will expire on Sept. 7, 2027. The Texas Health and Safety Code (sec.
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4 days ago | 
foodsafetynews.com | Dan Flynn
North Carolina’s 2025 Farm Act may enhance the state’s ban on raw milk sales, taking a loophole-closing approach to non-pasteurized dairy. The 2025 Farm Act, Senate Bill 639, passed the state senate on June 17 and cleared its first reading in the House, meaning it’s in line for its final vote by the full House. The sale of raw milk for human consumption is illegal in North Carolina, but loopholes exist.
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5 days ago | 
foodsafetynews.com | Dan Flynn
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is getting plenty of criticism for what could happen as his “Make America Healthy Again” agenda upends some long-established public health policies. But for some nationally prominent raw advocates, RFK Jr. is not moving fast enough. Mark McAfee, chief executive of the California-based Raw Farm, and Sally Fallon Morell, founding president of the Weston A.
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1 week ago | 
foodsafetynews.com | Dan Flynn
A “dawn of a new day” is promised for the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. According to Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, it hasn’t happened yet, but will soon. The federal government revises the dietary guidelines every five years, and the previous administration began that process in 2024. However, in February, Rolins and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F.
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1 week ago | 
foodsafetynews.com | Dan Flynn
President Trump has again nominated Mindy Brashears to be USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety. Brashears served as Undersecretary for Food Safety for the last 303 days of Trump’s first term, which turned out to be the most significant period for any Under Secretary for Food Safety in history, as those were the days of the pandemic. It was when the U.S. food industry experienced an “extreme demand shock” and fears that shortages could lead to panic.
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2 weeks ago | 
mdjonline.com | Dan Flynn
In the 1990s the notion of Community Policing became popular for local government. It was a method for police departments to prevent crime by operating based on four principles: 1. Police-community engagement, 2. Proactive crime-fighting, 3. Community problem solving and 4. Using a data-driven approach to operational planning. To the extent police departments practiced all four principles, they were effective in reducing and preventing future crime.
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2 weeks ago | 
foodsafetynews.com | Dan Flynn
The 41.7 million people who received monthly SNAP benefits in 2024 have long known they cannot use what were once called food stamps to purchase alcohol, tobacco, personal care products, or even hot and prepared foods. In 2025, one state after another is adding soda pop to that “verboten” list, along with non-calorie sodas, fruit and vegetable drinks that contain less than 50 percent natural juice, and other unhealthy beverages, and all candy.
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3 weeks ago | 
mdjonline.com | Dan Flynn
The noble symbol of the American criminal justice system is Lady Justice. She wears a blindfold signifying that above all, justice stands for blind fairness and impartiality for everyone. Common sense, therefore, tells us that judges, the most powerful arbiters of justice, should without exception treat everyone and every matter coming before them with fairness and impartiality. It shouldn’t matter at all if defendants are rich, poor, weak, powerful; dark or light skinned, faithful or secular.
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3 weeks ago | 
foodsafetynews.com | Dan Flynn
Poultry vaccines are available to producers who need to control Bronchitis, Bursal Disease, Encephalitis, Fowl Pox, Laryngotracheitis, Marek’s Disease, Mycoplasma Gallisepticum, Newcastle Disease, Pigeon Pox, Reovirus, and Tenosynovitis. Those are available from just one company, Duluth, GA-based Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health USA Inc. However, no vaccine is available for the avian flu, which has taken out 170 million birds.
