National news: Gov't investigates Monsanto, McDonald's secret ingredient

There was a bevy of interesting food tidbits being socially-networked today. Here's Monday morning's round-up.

In response to the FDA announced investigation into Monsanto's alleged seed monopoly and price fixing, Civil Eats offers insight and a list of 8 steps to reform farming.

NPR looks at a study of whether healthy food subsidies or junk food taxes make consumer choices more nutritious.

In other delicious news, the secret ingredient in McDonald's hamburgers is.... ammonia! The New York Times says that a government-approved process of injecting the chemical into beef tri... (yum!) doesn't even seem to be effective.