by Claire Kelloway | October 10, 2018 Last week, after the Trump administration struck a deal with Canada and Mexico to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement, the White House declared victory for US farmers, who gained greater access to Canadian dairy, egg, poultry, and wheat markets. Unfortunately, the new deal called the United…
by David Muraskin | October 9, 2018 “This new deal is an especially great victory for our farmers,” President Trump said of the proposed amendments to NAFTA. His administration is rebranding the deal as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA. But, no matter how hard he may try, the president can’t rebrand the actions and…
posted October 8, 2018 This past week, almost seven million pounds of JBS beef were recalled after 57 people in 16 states were sickened by Salmonella poisoning. No surprise here. Just last year, JBS was caught exporting rotten beef worldwide and trying to cover up the stench using cancer-causing acid products. The latest JBS tainted…
by Joe Fassler | October 9th, 2018 Since the mid-1980s, scientists have identified dairy cows as the primary reservoir of Salmonella Newport. A closer look at established facts points to an ongoing food safety crisis hidden in plain sight. Late last week, JBS, the world’s largest meatpacker, recalled 6.9 million pounds of ground beef that…
Big Agriculture Is Sucking Money From Family Farmers With Checkoff Programs 3:57 PM 10/08/2018 Marty Irby | Executive Director, Animal Wellness Action 1 It’s been a rough year for family farmers, and it’s not simply because of Mother Nature, trade deals and tariffs. Big Agriculture is sucking up the hard-earned dollars of family farmers and…
by Stephen Satterfield | October 3, 2018 When a food justice organization accused Imperfect Produce of taking their customers, it unearthed a larger set of questions about the latest food-systems investment frenzy. In August, two respected Bay Area-based food justice organizations, Phat Beets and Food First, co-authored a blog post that came out swinging. The…
A Right to Compete: Are Monopolies Crushing Entrepreneurship? Thursday, October 11, 2018 | 8:15 AM – 3:00 PM The Marriott Metro Center: 775 12th St NW, Washington, D.C. 20005 RSVP HERE Bookmark this link to watch the livestream. Featuring: Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) Commissioner Robert Jackson,…
by Victor Friedberg | October 3, 2018 There was a time, prior to the 20th century, when agricultural soil was rich, healthy and organically dense. Soil, in all of its regional variations, had always been a deeply complex ecosystem of microbes, minerals, decomposing organic matter, air and water. Our agricultural society was built upon it….
by Ronnie Cummins | March 31, 2015 For the first time since the advent of industrial agriculture, the federal government is considering advising Americans to eat “less red and processed meat.” That advice is the outcome of studies conducted by an independent panel of “experts” which was asked by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)…
posted October 2018 Addressing the United Nations General Assembly on September 25, President Donald Trump stated, “We reject the ideology of globalism and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism.” Among the patriots in the domestic audience of his address are the U.S. farmers whom he called “great patriots” in April, when China announced retaliatory tariffs…