Photo courtesy of U. S. Department of Agriculture
(Oct. 10, 2011 – 12:30 p.m.) Current Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack will give a speech on worldwide food insecurity Tuesday, Oct. 11, at 5 p.m. in the South Ballroom of the Memorial Union at Iowa State University. The event is free and open to the public.
There will be a reception preceding the speech in the South Ballroom.
Food insecurity refers to how available food is for consumers and how much access there is to the food.
The USDA has helped farmers and ranchers produce a safe, affordable and abundant food supply, conserve our natural resources, and provide healthful school meals to our nation's children.
USDA is also part of a government-wide effort to meet the challenges of feeding a growing global population, mitigating the effects of climate change and meeting increasing energy demands at home and abroad.
Vilsack has pioneered new approaches to promote long-term economic growth in rural America, focusing on investments in broadband Internet and renewable energy.
The speech is part of the World Affairs Series and is cosponsored by the World Affairs Committee and the Committee on Lectures, which is funded through the Government of the Student Body.
This is journalism?
I would like to see attributions for those glowing descriptions of the USDA, to put it mildly. Of course the USDA is not solely responsible for Iowa's horrible water and the sorry state of our soil resources. But some actions and policies on the part of the USDA are making those problems worse, not better.
To the poster questioning journalism-
This is a press release. If you read the article, you'll notice is there no byline, which means that the staff at ANO did not write this article.
thank you
Thank you, "To the poster," for that information. I often see press releases indicated as such in the media. Of course the lack of a byline is a major clue. But something at the beginning or end of this piece, attributing it to the USDA, would have been helpful and (I think) appropriate.
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