A recap of Village Capital and Open Markets Institute’s conference on competition policy in Washington, DC by Village Capital | October 18, 2018 (WASHINGTON, DC) – On October 11, Village Capital and Open Markets Institute hosted “A Right to Compete: Are Monopolies Crushing Entrepreneurship?” a conference on competition policy and the declining right to compete…
Dairy farmers are under siege thanks to low prices and changing tastes. Even a one-week holiday shutdown by yogurt giant Chobani inflicted pain. by Deena Shanker and Lydia Mulvany | October 17, 2018 A decade ago, Greek yogurt was ascendant in America. In New York state, the hope among farmers and politicians was that their…
Corporate Socialism Emerges as the Chief Threat to American Democracy by Robert G. Lewis, NUF Washington Correspondent A TOTALITARIAN revolutionary movement is being developed in the United States. It seeks far-reaching and fundamental changes in the American way of life, in the laws of the land, and even in the form of our government through…
by Joe Fassler | October 11th, 2018 In 2017, regulators warned JBS over its treatment of sick dairy cattle at its Tolleson, Arizona plant. The resulting documents may help clarify the source of this year’s Salmonella outbreak. The JBS meatpacking plant at the center of the recent, 6.9-million-pound beef recall has a history of “egregious”…
by Alisha Green, Reporter – San Francisco Business Times | Oct 12, 2018 Joining the world of cheesemaking was a big change for the Giacomini sisters — even though they grew up on a dairy farm where they returned to run as a cheese company for their parents. The level of cameraderie surprised them. The…
Timothy A. Wise (@TimothyAWise) tweeted at 0:03 PM on Thu, Oct 11, 2018: Thrilled to see flyer for my NewPress book, “Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, & the Battle for the Future of Food” (Feb 2019), with such warm praise from Shiva, Lappé, Hauter, de Schutter, Belay, Salvador, Shetty, Jomo KS & foreword from @_RajPatel….
by Judith Kohler | October 3, 2018 Fellow farmers, state agriculture officials identify available resources Mike Nolan and Mindy Perkovich have had good years and not-as-good years since starting Mountain Roots Produce in southwest Colorado’s Mancos Valley about five years ago. They have built their business selling vegetables to area restaurants and about 75 individual…
by Tony Briscoe – Chicago Tribune | October 12, 2018 A pork-processing plant in Beardstown last year discharged more nitrogen from animal waste into waterways than any other slaughterhouse in the country, according to a report published Thursday. In an assessment of water pollution produced by 98 large meat-processing facilities across the United States, the…
by Chase Purdy | August 4, 2016 The moral high ground of food just shifted a little bit. Using biophysical simulation models to compare 10 eating patterns, researchers found that eating fewer animal products will increase the number of people that can be supported by existing farmland. But as it turns out, eliminating animal products…
Politico’s Morning Agriculture REPORT: MEAT-PROCESSING PLANTS ARE FREQUENT POLLUTERS: Three-quarters of meat-processing plants that discharge wastewater into rivers and streams were found to have violated thresholds in their pollution-control permits over the last two years, per a new report from the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project. According to the analysis of EPA data, 74 out of…