July 2, 2018 North Carolina residents who live near giant pig factory farms have long complained about the stench from the open manure lagoons, the swarms of flies that descend on their homes, mobs of vultures who pick over rotting hog carcasses and the constant rumbling of trucks driving back and forth. These are more…

by Dr. Steve Suppan | June 11th, 2018 As of June 1, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration stated that they could not determine the site-specific origins of the contamination by the E. coli (STEC) 0157 of romaine lettuce that began in late 2017. Consumer Reports…

by EMERY P. DALESIO, AP Business Writer | June 29, 2018 A federal jury is punishing the world’s largest pork producer with a $25 million verdict after jurors decided that two neighbors of a hog farm suffered unreasonable nuisances from flies, buzzards and rumbling trucks tied to an industrial-scale hog grower. RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) —…

by Chris Hedges | May 21, 2018 It is impossible for any doomed population to grasp how fragile the decayed financial, social and political system is on the eve of implosion. The Trump administration did not rise, prima facie, like Venus on a half shell from the sea. Donald Trump is the result of a…

by Phil McCausland | Jun.30.2018 Small-dairy farmers are getting squeezed out by corporate agriculture. “That is not what America is about,” a struggling farmer said. SMITHFIELD, Ky. — All Curtis Coombs wanted was to raise cows and run his family’s dairy farm in this slice of Kentucky hill country, less than 35 miles from Louisville….

Major retailers jump into chicken price-fixing fray By Tom Johnston on 7/2/2018 The Kroger Co., Hy-Vee Inc. and Albertsons Companies Inc. on Friday filed a lawsuit in federal court in Chicago accusing Tyson Foods Inc. and a long line of the nation’s largest chicken processors of price fixing, according to court documents. The supermarket giants’…