The Grocery Manufacturers Association is the food industry’s most powerful lobbying group. But they’ve been struggling lately, and the hard times got worse when Nestlé left the association last October. At least part of the problem is that consumers have more access to information and a better idea of what they want. And what they want is transparency in the industry and healthier food on their plates. Politico on The Big Washington Food Fight.

+ “For only the second time in the last century, the number of farmers under 35 years old is increasing … Sixty-nine percent of the surveyed young farmers had college degrees — significantly higher than the general population.” Caitlin Dewey in WaPo: A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs to farm. (And I thought using a standing desk was going to extremes…)