by DAVID McCUMBER | September 17, 2017 Editor’s note: Last of a two-part series. Sunday’s first installment detailed how Bart Riley, owner of Riley’s Meats, received a long list of required changes to his plant when it was visited by Food Safety and Inspection Service front-line supervisor Jeffrey Legg and what happened after Riley found…
by Frances Kuo | September 13, 2017 Drawing a roadmap to combat the spread of deserts worldwide. It’s the mission of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in the Inner Mongolian city of Erdos. The host country, China, was praised for a law it passed in 2002 — the world’s first integrated law dedicated…
GREG AWTRY | September 16, 2017 David Domina, attorney for the landowners opposing the KXL, submitted closing arguments to the Nebraska Public Service Commission on Sept. 15, 2017, saying, “Massive gaps in TransCanada’s evidence confirm its failure to carry the burden of proof for route approval.” He backed up that statement in a 37-page report…
By ANDREW JACOBS and MATT RICHTEL Photographs by WILLIAM DANIELS for The New York Times | SEPT. 16, 2017 As growth slows in wealthy countries, Western food companies are aggressively expanding in developing nations, contributing to obesity and health problems. FORTALEZA, Brazil — Children’s squeals rang through the muggy morning air as a woman pushed…
by Donald Kaufman | Sep 16, 2017 China, the world’s second-largest economy, plans to cut off all sales of combustion-engine automobiles. According to TechCrunch, the government is in the process of creating incentive programs for companies that make efforts to develop electric vehicles. China is following the lead of France, which announced in July that…
by Donnelle Eller | Sept. 15, 2017 Gary Netser, a landowner in Iowa County is upset after two small confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) were built across the street from his home. Small confinements are not subject to the same distance regulations as large-scale operations. Kelsey Kremer/The Register Iowa has about 5,000 more pig confinements…
By Dan Flynn | September 14, 2017 Audit released is for processing, not slaughter The “our beef for your chicken deal” hatched by President Donald Trump with the People’s Republic of China last May appears to be on track. USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) yesterday quietly released the final audit report showing China’s…
By Walter Brandimarte | September 14, 2017 Brazil’s agriculture minister became the latest target of an anti-corruption drive that has picked up steam this week as a new round of charges against President Michel Temer loom. In the latest sting operation, federal police raided the Brasilia apartment of Blairo Maggi on Thursday morning, while Chief…
by John Halstead | August 24, 2016 In the lead up to Earth Day this year, I wrote a 21-part series of posts offering practical suggestions for how to honor the Earth beyond the standard ideas of planting a tree and picking up litter (both of which are good, but insufficient). (You can see the…
by David Dayen | September 15 2017 When Amazon purchased Whole Foods last month, it didn’t just get the retail locations. It picked up Whole Foods’s baggage as well. Among the bigger issues inherited by Amazon appears to be a four-month investigation from the animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere that challenges Whole Foods’s core…