USDA is increasing the amount of healthy foods, including perishable fruits and vegetables, that stores must stock in order to become an approved retailer accepting SNAP or  food stamp benefits. The goal is noble, but the desired outcome attracts some healthy skepticism. Activists Needlessly Cost Taxpayers Activists groups so effectively mislead consumers with their junk science that governments have to then spend money on new studies to ensure an accurate record. Anti-glyphosate groups last year charged that the herbicide can be found in the breast milk of lactating mothers. One group, calling itself Moms Across America but in fact just a shill that opposes GMOs and Monsanto, issued a report that it had found glyphosate in three out...

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