January 7, 2014, 4:54 pm Overhaul of Israel’s Economy Offers Lessons for United States By STEVEN DAVIDOFF Harry Campbell Americans may talk about income inequality, but Israel has done something about it. The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has voted to break up the country’s corporate conglomerates. The move followed mass protests in 2011 over the concentration of wealth…
Restaurants Fear Clout of a New Food Giant By ANNIE GASPARRO and JESSE NEWMAN Jan. 6, 2014 7:26 p.m. ET Bobby Williams used to rely on US Foods Inc. to supply most of the ingredients for Lizard’s Thicket, the chain of Southern home-cooking restaurants his family owns in South Carolina. But years ago, after learning that the…
USDA-Approved Agent Orange: It’s Coming to a Farm Near You Ah, the sweet smell of Agent Orange in the morning. Our benevolent agricultural guardians at the USDA have announced that they are allowing the introduction of new corn and soybean seeds that have been designed specifically to withstand a dousing with 2,4-D, a key ingredient…
Independent ranchers and animal rights activists don’t agree about much, except that it’s time to stop using federal tax dollars to support the meat lobby. By Siddhartha Mahanta | New America Foundation Imagine if the federal government mandated that a portion of all federal gas taxes go directly to the oil industry’s trade association, the…
Walmart Recalls Donkey Meat In China Because It Contained Fox REUTERS | By Adam Jourdan Posted: 01/02/2014 8:11 am EST | Updated: 01/02/2014 9:11 am EST SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world’s largest retailer, has recalled donkey meat sold at some outlets in China after tests showed the product contained the DNA of…
A Bumper Crop of Bureaucracy Tom Perez’s Labor enforcers go after the family farm. Updated Jan. 2, 2014 4:23 p.m. ET Watching Team Obama habitually assert that it can rewrite the Affordable Care Act on the fly, one wonders whether anyone in the executive branch still believes in following the law. Don’t look to the Occupational Safety…
By Meatingplace Editors on 1/3/2014 The Connecticut Department of Agriculture has established an inspection program for poultry producersto operate as a small poultry slaughter facility exempt from continuous USDA inspection and also will build a mobile slaughter unit. “It is hoped that the Connecticut Small Poultry Processor Inspection Program will help provide participating producers a steadier income stream and will…
By Meatingplace Editors on 1/1/2014 Safeway posted the following statement on its website: In 2012, Safeway announced that it would begin formulating plans to convert its pork supply to group sow housing. Safeway continues to increase the quantity of pork it buys from vendors transitioning to group housing systems for their breeding sows. Last year…