Thornsberry

Building the 30-foot by 40-foot shade structure, completed last month, cost more than $25,000, Thornsberry says.

Shade: A weapon against skin cancer, childhood obesity 2011

Michelle Thornsberry, a mother of two, helped lead efforts to build a sun shade over the playground at her children's school, Stevenson Elementary in Burbank, Calif.

Shade: A weapon against skin cancer, childhood obesity 2011

One bad sunburn carries risksThe cost of failing to protect kids from the sun is also high, notes Thornsberry, whose brother developed melanoma — the deadliest form of skin cancer — at age 27.

Shade: A weapon against skin cancer, childhood obesity 2011

“Fundamental changes are needed in the agency you now lead, and R-CALF USA looks forward to working with you to accomplish the goal of re-establishing USDA as an agency that furthers U.S. agriculture by properly balancing the interests of agricultural producers, food consumers, and industry agribusinesses,” Thornsberry said.

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Thornsberry said that R-CALF USA is urging the U.S. Senate to take the following steps to improve food safety:

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Thornsberry also said USDA is inappropriately attempting to force the international zoning concept in the U.S. so it can expand its efforts to force zoning in other parts of the world.

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"We continue to push USDA to improve upon our existing, time-proven identification systems rather than to impose a costly, unproven mandatory National Animal Identification System," said Thornsberry.

Group Praises Portions of USDA's New TB Plan But Strongly Opposes Zoning That Usurps States' Rights 2009

“We continue to push USDA to improve upon our existing, time-proven identification systems rather than to impose a costly, unproven mandatory National Animal Identification System,” said Thornsberry.

Printing: Group Praises Portions of USDA's New TB Plan But Strongly Opposes Zoning That Usurps States' Rights 2009

"We are now witness to the unconscionable actions of a federal agency that has ignored its duty to defend our constitutionally passed COOL law, ignored the public interest and the will of Congress, and has, instead, kowtowed to the special interests of the Canadian government, all to the detriment of U.S. citizens," said Thornsberry.

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"The House bill is a classic example of addressing only the symptoms of the problem rather than the problem itself," Thornsberry pointed out.

Group Implores Senate to Reject House Version of Food Safety Bill, Start Anew to Genuinely Improve Food Safety 2009