Beef group urges Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate antitrust concern at meatpacker By CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY 01/04/2018 05:44 PM EST A major beef lobbying group is pressing the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate whether Cargill has been engaging in anticompetitive behavior in Pennsylvania after the shutdown of a plant owned by its biggest rival, the global…

by KAYLA WOLF | Jan 6, 2018 The plan was always for Nick Oertwich to come back to work on the family farm near Pilger after attending the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. But following graduation, Oertwich stayed in Lincoln to work. Now, with the financial incentive that raising chickens for Costco promises, he plans to move…

December 21, 2017 For Immediate Release December 21, 2017 Contact: press@ufcw.org UFCW: It’s Time for the Poultry Industry to Draw a Line on Forced and Exploited Labor America’s Poultry Union Calls for Chicken Council to Make the Use of Underage and Incarcerated Workers Unacceptable in America’s Poultry Plants WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United Food and…

Ahead of President Trump’s speech to the American Farm Bureau, farmers suing the Administration for rolling back critical protections for family farms issued the following statement: “President Trump’s administration has turned its back on the very farmers and rural communities that helped elect him president. Instead of upholding his promise to be our champion, the…

by Marjorie Haun | January 5, 2018 In 2015, President Obama signed the Omnibus Bill which ordered the US Department of Agriculture to stop enforcing Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) regulations. Since that time ranchers have been calling for the rules to be restored, not just to protect domestic beef producers from unfair competition, but…

posted on November 13, 2017 by Maggie Tucker For about $150 per pound, dedicated carnivores and food connoisseurs alike can get their forks on a luxury: Wagyu beef. Its trademark marbled flesh and soft texture have launched the meat into caviar-like status. And because its fat has a melting point lower than the average human…

From the Organization for Competitive Markets newsletter by Mike Callicrate | January 4, 2018 What can we as eaters do to encourage a better food system? In today’s broken corporate-controlled food system, more and more people want to know where their food comes from and how it’s produced. The biggest industrial food companies are well…

by Kyle Schwab | January 5, 2018 A former accountant for the Oklahoma Beef Council was sentenced Thursday to 57 months in federal prison for using the nonprofit as her “personal cash cow.” Melissa Day Morton, 46, of Edmond, embezzled $2.68 million by forging organization checks between 2009 and 2016, according to Oklahoma City federal…

Lapses in food safety have made U.S. prisoners six times more likely to get a foodborne illness than the general population. by H. Claire Brown and Joe Fassler | January 3, 2018 This won’t surprise anyone: The food served in correctional institutions is generally not very good. Even though most Americans have never tasted a…

R-CALF USA For Immediate Release: January 4, 2018 Media Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa www.r-calfusa.com Groups Request Investigation Surrounding JBS Plant Delisting Billings, Mont. – In their complaint filed yesterday with the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, R-CALF USA and its Ohio affiliate, Buckeye Quality Beef Association, request an investigation into the…