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DOJ opens investigation into egg companies for price-fixing

The probe comes as egg prices hit record highs.By Marcia Brown | 03/07/2025 03:59 PM ESTThe eggs price is displayed on the edge of a shelf at a grocery store in Glenview, Illinois, on Feb. 10, 2025. | Nam Y. Huh/AP The Justice Department is investigating whether the nation’s largest egg producers are conspiring to…



Fast Food Nation to Barons – What Happened to the U.S. Food System?

March 7, 2025 by Mike Callicrate How a nation, once able to feed itself and others, lost its food system and became dependent on imported food … Fast Food Nation To Barons – What Happened to the U.S. Food System?



From Lori Wallach: Pl read: kick ass NYT tariffs oped today

Please read this very smart dose of tariff sanity from Rep. Chris Deluzio today via a New York Times oped. It calls out Dems to rethink how they talk about tariffs while simultaneously smacking down Trump’s crazy tariff rollercoaster and tariff mistargeting (ie. we have mainly balanced trade w/ Canada.) He summarizes the policy case…



Hatching a Conspiracy: A BIG Investigation into Egg Prices

        Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Hatching a Conspiracy: A BIG Investigation into Egg Prices ‘More hens, less income!’ So said the United Egg Producer economist Donald Bell in 1994. The industry has gotten more consolidated ever since. And avian flu is just the latest excuse to hike prices. Basel…



Ranch Group Supports New Tariffs; Wants More

R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America Fighting for the Independent U.S. Cattle Producer     Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa View and share this news release on Facebook here and X here, or view the web version here.     Ranch Group Supports New Tariffs; Wants More BILLINGS, Mont., March 4, 2025…



Global corporations will own and control a majority of our meat supply!

Trinity Vandenacre @Trinitycodes Read on X 40 years ago, Only 36% of OUR US Beef market was controlled by the Big 4. Today it’s over 80%!!This caused a disaster! There were over 1.2 MILLION cattle operations in 1980, but today…. There were only about 622,000 cattle farms and ranches left in the US! Coincidence?Probably not….



DTN: Thousands of USDA Workers Fired

Forest Service, NRCS Among Agencies Hit by Mass Firings as USDA Cuts Jobs 2/14/2025 | 4:19 PM CST By Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor Connect with Chris: @ChrisClaytonDTN Workers across several USDA agencies and offices have been fired because they were in probationary periods for their jobs. The Trump administration moved this week…



Flatwater Free Press: Many Nebraskans still under threat of high nitrate in drinking water, report finds

The groundwater that many Nebraskans drink is high in nitrate. Experts fear that those high nitrate levels may make Nebraska children more likely to develop certain pediatric cancers. They also believe that high nitrate poses a variety of potential health risks for adults. Photo by Ryan Soderlin for the Flatwater Free Press By Yanqi Xu…



Our ability to feed ourselves – Going, Going, Soon Gone

R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America "Fighting for the Independent U.S. Cattle Producer" For Immediate Release February 13, 2025   R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa View and share this week’s update on Facebook here, on X here, or view the web version here. This week’s segment is from the archive, originally released Feb….



FARM ACTION CALLS FOR AN INVESTIGATION INTO SKYROCKETING EGG PRICES AND RESTRICTED SUPPLY

Today, Farm Action sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice urging the departments to investigate and take action to restore competition and lower egg prices. “We share the Trump administration’s concern about the cost of living crisis and the need to deliver emergency price relief to American families,” the letter…