by Callum Roberts | 4 August 2017 America’s addiction to cheap meat, fed on corn and soy in vast indoor factories, comes at a high cost to our own health and that of the planet Every spring, as the snows thaw, water rushes down the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, spreading life, then death into the…
USDA Inc.: JBS is the Latest in Scandalous Job Swapping Between Government and Meat Industry August 4, 2017 OCM Staff At the Organization for Competitive Markets annual conference in 2014, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) was dubbed USDA, Inc. because of the revolving door between the meat industry and USDA. In the research that…
By DANNY HAKIM | August 1, 2017 Documents released Tuesday in a lawsuit against Monsanto raised new questions about the company’s efforts to influence the news media and scientific research and revealed internal debate over the safety of its highest-profile product, the weed killer Roundup. The active ingredient in Roundup, glyphosate, is the most common…
by Amy Mayer | August 1, 20177:00 AM ET On a cloudy summer day, Iowa farmer Wendy Johnson lifts the corner of a mobile chicken tractor, a lightweight mesh-covered plastic frame that has corralled her month-old meat chickens for a few days, and frees several dozen birds to peck the surrounding area at will. Soon,…
For Immediate Release July 27, 2017 Contact press@ufcw.org Amazon Will Destroy More Jobs Than It Could Ever Create As Jeff Bezos becomes the richest person in the world, it’s clear Amazon’s retail monopoly benefits him above all others. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Marc Perrone, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), which…
by Carey Gillam | 08/01/2017 04:55 am ET The other shoe just dropped. Four months after the publication of a batch of internal Monsanto Co. documents stirred international controversy, a new trove of company records was released early Tuesday, providing fresh fuel for a heated global debate over whether or not the agricultural chemical giant…
By TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG | July 27, 2017 Nitrogen-based fertilizers, which came into wide use after World War II, helped prompt the agricultural revolution that has allowed the Earth to feed its seven billion people. But that revolution came at a cost: Artificial fertilizers, often applied in amounts beyond what crops need to grow, are carried…
R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America For Immediate Release: July 31, 2017 Media Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406:252-2516; r-calfusa Group Making Final Preparations for 18th Annual Convention Billings, Mont. – National cattle trade association R-CALF USA is making final preparations for its upcoming 18th Annual Convention to be held August 25-26 at the…