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PBH School Lunch Campaign Expands Nationwide
WILMINGTON, Del. -- Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH) here, in cooperation with the makers of Hidden Valley ranch dressings, have expanded the Love Your Veggies nationwide school lunch campaign for the 2007-08 school year. The program will award 51 grants totally more than $500,000 - giving one per state, as well as one grant to a school in Hidden Valley's hometown of Oakland, Calif. -
Lawmakers Broker COOL Compromise
WASHINGTON -- After a week of what was described as an "intense behind-the-scenes battle," members of the House Agriculture Committee at presstime struck a compromise and approved changes to a new Farm Bill, a key provision of which evidently clears the way for mandatory country of origin labels for meat products to begin next year.