www.lundberg.com

The About page - Farming practices...
help.lundberg.com

... Does all of your rice come from California?

More than 90% of our rice comes from California, where our family has been farming for four generations. When the available rice supply in California is not sufficient to meet demand, we work with trusted farmers in the Southern United States, Minnesota, Italy, Argentina, and Thailand whose high standards for quality and sustainability are consistent with ours.

Where do you source your rice from?

Packaged Rice: All the rice in our 1 lb., 2 lb., 4 lb., 10 lb., and 12 lb. packages is grown in California, with the exception of Wild Blend, which contains rice grown in the US (outside of California) and the Sustainable Arborio, which contains rice grown in Italy. ...

COVID Shuts Down Louisiana School
www.wbrz.com

www.nbcnews.com

... "So, the lake change, Lake of America, was something I've been thinking about for a long time.

Actually, as you know, we took something called the Gulf of Mexico. We changed it, and now it's very routinely the Gulf of America. So, if you think about it, we have a gulf and we have a lake," he said.

"Now, all we need is an ocean. So, maybe we'll have to change the name of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific. Maybe we'll change them both." ...

RFK Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. New documents refute that
apnews.com

... Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeatedly told lawmakers who held the key to his confirmation last year that a 2019 visit to Samoa before a deadly measles outbreak had "nothing to do with vaccines."New documents obtained by The Associated Press and The Guardian refute that testimony.

Kennedy, then a prominent anti-vaccine activist, preceded the visit with a letter to the Samoan prime minister requesting to study the Pacific island nation's measles, mumps and rubella vaccines after the deaths of two children who had received them. In the letter, he used the words vaccine or vaccination eight times.

The letter raises questions about how truthful Kennedy was in testimony before Congress. During an arduous confirmation process where he needed the support of some skeptical Republican lawmakers to advance, Kennedy also pledged to maintain vaccine policies that, once in office, he moved to change.

"I am writing this letter to you in the hope that we might be helpful to the people of your great nation," Kennedy wrote, adding that he believed the deaths of the two children could have resulted from manufacturing issues.

"I would propose my team conduct detailed health informatics assessment in Samoa of what happened with your MMR vaccines," he continued. ...

Flock contract cancellations grow among cities, other jurisdictions
thehill.com

... Two Phoenix, Ariz., suburbs became the latest municipalities Wednesday to terminate their contracts with Flock Safety, canceling their use of the company's automated license plate readers (ALPRs) that have drawn widespread privacy concerns.

The city of Tempe, which had an $80,000 contract with the company, said it would turn off all of its Flock cameras in response to mounting reports of data "misuse" in other regions. Three hours later, the nearby town of Cave Creek also announced it had ended its contract with Flock and completely removed the technology.

"While the cameras have been a useful tool for Tempe ... recent cases involving the misuse of automated license plate reader systems in Arizona and nationwide have raised concerns about the risks that come with the technology," Tempe wrote in a press release posted to the social platform X.

Cave Creek similarly wrote on X, "In light of several high-profile abuse cases reported locally and nationally, as well as a recent theft of a FLOCK camera ... staff determined it was in the best interest of the community to discontinue the system." ...