USDA expands community eligibility: An additional 3,000 school districts will be able to serve school breakfast and lunch for free to all students, said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, under a new regulation that makes it easier for high-poverty areas to qualify. (USDA)
Is hydropower green?: Arguments to tear down dams in the West in the name of rebuilding the population or salmon and other fish are being met with questions of the environmental impact of solar farms and wind turbines that might replace them. (Los Angeles Times)
Child workers at meat plants: The Labor Department opened investigations of Tyson Foods and Perdue Farms following a published report that migrant minors worked for sanitation companies who held contracts with the meat processors. (Meat and Poultry)
‘No SNAP photo’ bill: Legislation filed by Texas Rep Greg Casar, a member of the House Agriculture Committee, would revoke a federal provision allowing states to put a photo on SNAP benefit cards on grounds the photos are counter-productive. (Casar)