April 16, 2013 Front Lines: Follow the Money Pork producers are being forced to underwrite lobbyists trying to block animal welfare reforms All Animals magazine, May/June 2013 iStockphoto by Karen E. Lange The decisions didn’t make sense. After spending around $500 million on advertising that featured “Pork, the other white meat,” and after transforming that…

Investment Banking May 2, 2013, 10:00 pm JPMorgan Caught in Swirl of Regulatory Woes By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and BEN PROTESS Karen Bleier/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesJamie Dimon, chief of JPMorgan Chase, spoke to a Senate panel last year. Government investigators have found that JPMorgan Chase devised “manipulative schemes” that transformed “money-losing power plants into powerful…

Kansas gov. budgets over $200 million in bonds for NBAF Brett Wessler, Staff Writer | Updated: 05/01/2013 Gov. Sam Brownback’s proposed adjustment to the Kansas state budget includes $202 million in bonds to help construct the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility at Kansas State University. The $1.15 billion facility to be built in Manhattan, Kan….

Originally published Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 7:35 PM Chemicals in poultry plants raising health concerns U.S. Agriculture Department health inspectors say poultry-processing plants are increasingly turning to toxic, bacteria-killing chemicals to remove contaminants that escape notice as processing-line speeds have accelerated. By Kimberly Kindy The Washington Post COURTESY OF THE NAVARRO FAMILY The death…

First Ag-Gag, Now the Name Game Posted: 05/01/2013 5:30 pm By Paul Shapiro, Vice President of farm animal protection, The Humane Society of the United States Industrialized animal agribusiness is facing a crisis, and its leaders, having failed to accept that factory farming practices are actually at the root of the problem, are frantically looking…

Ferd Hoefner, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition [nsac@mail.democracyinaction.com] Lawmakers Announce Plans for 2013 Farm Bill April 26th, 2013 This week, Agriculture Committee leaders announced plans for starting the 2013 Farm Bill process. Because a new Congress started this year, Congress cannot pick up where it left off with the farm bill last year and must start…

WEDNESDAY, MAY 01, 2013 Discrimination at USDA: Response to New York Time The New York Times published an article last week titled, U.S. Opens Spigot After Farmers Claim Discrimination. I read the article with interest, as I have been teaching advanced law classes in Agricultural Finance & Credit for many years in the LL.M. Program…

First “Ag-Gag” Prosecution: This Utah Woman Filmed a Slaughterhouse from the Public Street Tuesday, 30 April 2013 10:29 By Will Potter, Green is the New Red | Report Amy Meyer wanted to see the slaughterhouse for herself. She had heard that anyone passing by could view the animals, so she drove to Dale Smith Meatpacking…