| Article: | Family Ranchers, Farmers, Local Food Advocates Criticize Efforts to Tie School Lunch Program to NAIS Washington, D.C. n A wide coalition of family farmers, independent ranchers, organic and local food system advocates from across the country today criticized a provision to be included in the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee's markup bill that would force the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to purchase meat for the National School Lunch Program only from sources that are registered in the controversial National Animal Identification System (NAIS). |