R-CALF USA Member Alert To: R-CALF USA Members and Affiliates From: Bill Bullard, CEO Date: May 13, 2013 Subject: Nebraska Senator Mike Johanns Plans to Offer Amendment to Repeal COOL: Immediate Calls Needed to Both Senate and House Background: The U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee plans to take up the 2013 Farm Bill on Tuesday, May…
Former Pro-GMO Scientist Speaks Out On The Real Dangers of Genetically Engineered Food Published May 11, 2013 | By Ocean Robbins By Thierry Vrain I retired 10 years ago after a long career as a research scientist for Agriculture Canada. When I was on the payroll, I was the designated scientist of my institute to…
FOCUS: David Swanson | Monsanto Has Taken Over the USDA David Swanson, Nation of Change Swanson writes: "Monsanto is responsible for environmental disasters that have destroyed entire towns, and a driving force behind the international waves of suicides among farmers whose lives it has helped ruin – has monopolized our food system largely by taking…
Food for Thought Steer slaughter at Callicrate Ranch — and why Mike Callicrate has a beef with just about everyone By Lori Midson Fri., May 10 2013 at 6:04 PM All photos by Lori Midson. Earlier this week, on Monday, I spent the afternoon in Kansas — specifically St. Francis, Kansas, a small, sleepy town…
Foreign Food Inspections on Decline as Illnesses From Imported Goods Rise By RON NIXON Published: May 7, 2013 NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — Inside a warehouse near the Canadian border, boneless hams bound for Philadelphia are coming off a tractor-trailer from Toronto under the gaze of a federal food inspector. Each week, about 20 of the…
Food for Thought Steer slaughter at Callicrate Ranch — and why Mike Callicrate has a beef with just about everyone By Lori Midson Fri., May 10 2013 at 6:04 PM All photos by Lori Midson. Earlier this week, on Monday, I spent the afternoon in Kansas — specifically St. Francis, Kansas, a small, sleepy town…
FOCUS: David Swanson | Monsanto Has Taken Over the USDA David Swanson, Nation of Change Swanson writes: “Monsanto is responsible for environmental disasters that have destroyed entire towns, and a driving force behind the international waves of suicides among farmers whose lives it has helped ruin – has monopolized our food system largely by taking…
AMI joins chorus for COOL delay By Tom Johnston on 5/8/2013 The American Meat Institute said Monday it joined seven other meat, poultry and retail associations asking in a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack that the proposed country-of-origin labeling rule be delayed until the World Trade Organization determines whether the final rule brings the…
The EPA announced on May 1, 2013 that they intend to increase the allowable glyphosate residue levels in grain and food crops in the US. The limits that are already in place are above the levels known to cause health problems to animals and humans. Please take the time to submit a comment about this…
R-CALF USA and Others Urge Congress to Pass Packer Ban in 2013 Farm Bill Washington, DC – R-CALF USA and 20 other livestock and consumer groups sent a joint letter to leaders of the agriculture committees in both the U.S. House and U.S. Senate urging the inclusion of a ban on packer ownership of livestock…