5 Reasons Shopping at Walmart Makes You a Scrooge This Holiday Season Posted: 12/10/2014 By Linsey Pecikonis It’s no secret that Walmart is the nation’s largest retailer and that the family who owns Walmart, the Waltons, are mega-billionaires worth more than $144.7 billion, but what you might not know is that Walmart is the the…

Menu News Release: CPA Applauds Sen. Ben Cardin Progressive Consumption Tax Bill Contact: Sara Haimowitz, sara, 202.688.5145 For immediate release CPA Applauds Sen. Ben Cardin Progressive Consumption Tax Bill: Legislation Would Drastically Improve American Producers’ Trade Competitiveness The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) applauds Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) for introducing the Progressive Consumption Tax…

New Harvard study reveals Institutional Corruption of Pharmaceuticals and how FDA cannot be trusted with public safety A new article with title of “Institutional Corruption of Pharmaceuticals and the Myth of Safe and Effective Drugs" is set to be published in the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics (JLME). The article written by Prof. Donald…

Making a Pig’s Ear of Food Safety By TED GENOWAYS DEC. 12, 2014 Photo Credit Ben Jones LINCOLN, Neb. — IF, thanks to an experimental inspection program, a meatpacking firm produces as much as two tons a day of pork contaminated by fecal matter, urine, bile, hair, intestinal contents or diseased tissue, should that count…

For Immediate Release Thursday, December 11, 2014 – 11:45am Cornucopia Institute Contact: Mark Kastel, 608-625-2042 Investigation: “Factory Farms” Producing Massive Quantities of Organic Milk and Eggs Regulations Not Being Enforced—Watchdog Asks for USDA to Remove Program Management CORNUCOPIA, WIS. – In what has been called one of the largest fraud investigations in the history of…

Unsustainable Living ‘The Ogallala Road,’ by Julene Bair By MARK BITTMANAPRIL 25, 2014 A story of land, water, relationships and love, “The Ogallala Road” is the 100-year history of a farming family in Kansas as well as the second of Julene Bair’s memoirs. The first, “One Degree West: Reflections of a Plainsdaughter,” was well received,…

Financial Reform Newsletter December 11, 2014 Yet More Evidence Of The Economic Wreckage Caused By The Financial Crash Of 2008, Showing Why Everyone Has A big Stake In Financial Reform To Prevent This From Happening Again, Which Is What Better Markets Fights For: Using data from the Federal Reserve’s 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances, Economist…

Howdy, Here are three items of interest to OCM passed at the recent NeFU state Convention. All the best, John K. Hansen, President Nebraska Farmers Union 1305 Plum Street, Lincoln, NE 68502 (402)476-8815 Office (402)476-8859 Fax (402)476-8608 Home (402)580-8815 Cell www.nebraskafarmersunion.org 2) Beef Checkoff Reform WHEREAS, Nebraska is the nation’s top rated red meat producing…

To: R-CALF USA Members and Affiliates From: Joe Pongratz, Checkoff Committee Chair Date: December 9, 2014 Subject: Reminder: Comments on USDA’s New Checkoff Proposal due tomorrow Dec. 10 Background: Since the 2010 confirmation by an independent accounting firm that the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) had breached the financial firewall that was supposed to protect…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Dec. 8, 2014) Contact: Andrew Jerome, 202-314-3106 ajerome NFU Submits Beef Checkoff Comments; Urges Major and Immediate Reforms to Split Checkoff-Funded Organization from Lobbying Organization WASHINGTON (Dec. 8, 2014) – National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Agriculture today urging major and immediate changes to…