I got a note from the U.S. Department of Agriculture explaining the bottled water food stamp fraud that I found so confusing yesterday. According to spokesperson Aaron Lavallee:
The problem with water dumping is not people returning 1 lt bottles or cans for $.05 – it is people buying 5 gallon water cooler jugs and getting [...]

 
Just in time for holiday cookouts, the Washington Post has a story about uproar over watering down the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s organic label.
It chronicles questions about the purity of the USDA Organic stamp that can be found on everything from t-shirts, cosmetics and pet food to the hamburgers and corn on the cob enjoyed at the typical All-American [...]