Harvest Public Media | February 10, 2014 MEAT LABELING ADVOCATES BACK NEW FARM BILL By: Abbie Fentress Swanson< The USDA’s new COOL rule went into full effect in November. It requires labels to list where animals were born, raised and slaughtered. (Abbie Fentress Swanson/Harvest Public Media) Proponents of a new labeling rule that gives consumers...
Slaughterhouse Closed After Huge Beef Recall By JoNel Aleccia A California slaughterhouse that recalled nearly 9 million pounds of beef parts is voluntarily shutting its doors, federal officials said Tuesday. Rancho Feeding Corp. of Petaluma, Calif., made the move after expanding a January recall to include a year’s worth of products –- 8.7 million pounds…
David Simon on America as a Horror Show VIDEO: David Simon on America as a Horror Show This week on Moyers & Company, David Simon, journalist and creator of the TV series The Wire and Treme, talks with Bill about the crisis of capitalism in America. After President Barack Obama’s annual State of the Union…
The gift that keeps on giving by Alan Guebert | Farm and Food File for the week beginning Feb. 9, 2014 If you’re an ag-dependent advertising agency, a commodity organization hired hand or an ag journalist who can’t do math, commodity checkoffs are a gift that just keeps on giving. The most recent checkoff gift…
Iowa Federal District Court Denies Summary Judgment to Meat Processor in Producers’ Breach of Contract Action Kristine A. Tidgren | February 5, 2014 Clasing v. Hormel Corp., No. C 12-3054, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 7048 (N.D. Iowa Jan. 21, 2014) A federal district court in the Northern District of Iowa recently allowed two breach of…
Ranchers applaud ‘hands off’ of COOL and livestock provisions in Farm Bill Billings, Mont. – The Western Organization of Resource Councils, a regional network of conservationists and family farmers and ranchers, today praised Congress for excluding provisions in the House Farm Bill that would have rolled back the country-of origin labeling (COOL) program and limited…
R-CALF USA Pleased with Farm Bill’s Treatment of COOL and GIPSA Billings, Mont. – R-CALF USACEO Bill Bullard issued the following statement following today’s passage of H.R. 2642, the 2014 Farm Bill. “Our priority for the past two years was to ensure that neither country-of-origin labeling (COOL) nor enforcement of the Packers and Stockyards Act…