The US Food Stamp Program is a federal assistance program that provides food to low income people living in the United States. Benefits are distributed by the individual states, but the program is administered through the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Most food stamp benefits are now distributed using Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards but for most of its history the program has used paper vouchers of some kind.

AKRON, Mich. (AP) - Kristen DeGroat just wanted to sell her horse to another animal lover, but her ad ended up under "Good Things to Eat" in the classified sections of two newspapers. About a third of the 60 or so calls she received were from people interested in buying horse meat.

Interesting new product: Welcome Nature Mill, invented by Russ Cohn through a series of stinky trial and error R&D stents. The Nature Mill is an indoor composter for the unwanted pounds of food discarded daily. IT works like this: You can deposit food scraps into the unit at any time, up to 120 lbs per month.

This is a comment on the reality of food manufacturing today. As hard as they try, there will be times when an error just happens. The workers in the plants are human. Instead of depending on processed food, make your own.

Commentary by a technophile libertarian (yours truly) which attempts to document how the lack of economic understanding in society as a whole has resulted in unnecessary injustice for today's poor.

Among other details not meant to be released, the FTC revealed how Whole Foods negotiates with suppliers to drive up costs for Wal-Mart stores. Regulators also discussed the company's closely held marketing strategies.