Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg The food giant won dismissal of a lawsuit claiming misleading advertising, but not before revealing what goes into its products. by Deena Shanker and Lydia Mulvany | April 10, 2019 Consumers want “natural” meat—and the biggest meat companies want to sell it to them. American shoppers are reaching for healthier, more environmentally…

Corruption, Mismanagement at USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service’s Put Consumers at Risk, Whistleblower Says April 11, 2019 Organic Consumers Association by Martha Rosenberg The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), which operates under the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and employs more than 10,000 people, is tasked with ensuring the safety and proper labeling…

Bill that would protect farmers in legal battles with neighbors advances · By Martha Stoddard / World-Herald Bureau 4.11.19 LINCOLN — Concessions by farm groups helped win first-round approval Wednesday for a bill to protect growing farm and ranch operations from legal action by their neighbors. But Legislative Bill 227 advanced only after its introducer,…

Opinion: Good Neighbor Values By Joe Maxwell, Wes Shoemyer – April 9, 2019 Missouri Cattlemen’s Association clearly proves they lack basic Missouri values and have it all wrong in their “Flipping the Bird to Science” published on this page March 31, 2019. What every Missourian should know about farmers in this state is there are…

R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America For Immediate Release April 9, 2019 Media Contact: Bill Bullard, R-CALF USA CEO r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com, (406) 252-2516 View and share this news release on Facebook here . R-CALF USA Praises Beef Checkoff Reform Legislation Billings, Mont. – Last week, legislation was reintroduced in the U.S. Senate to reform the most prominent…

AP Photo | Nati Harnik Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks at the Heartland Forum held on the campus of Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa, Saturday, March 30, 2019. Jeff Daniels | @jeffdanielsca Published 5 April 2019 “You’ve got these giant corporations that are making bigger and bigger profits for themselves,…

by Claire Kelloway Many rural residents – including many farmers – do not want large concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in their communities, as evinced by a growing number of efforts to halt new CAFOs or sue them for environmental damage. But a newly popular corporate structure for hog production makes it increasingly difficult for…

Screenshot: Dish Pigs – CBC (YouTube) by Dan Neilan3/29/19 The labor of back-of-house restaurant workers often goes unappreciated by diners. Though chefs, line cooks, food runners, and the like are the rarely seen, rarely heard facilitators of meals, the humble dishwasher is the one ensuring you’re not dining off filthy plates and lipstick-stained wine glasses. A…

Cattle eating a mixture of antibiotic-free corn and hay at Corrin Farms, near Neola, Iowa. Their meat is sold by Niman Ranch. Dan Charles/NPR by Dan Charles | April 2, 2019 If you ate a hamburger today, or a high-priced steak, chances are it came from an animal that was fed an antibiotic during the…

Under the proposed new system, there would be no limits on slaughter-line speeds at hog plants. (Jayme Halbritter / Associated Press) by Kimberly Kindy | Washington Post | Apr 03, 2019 The Trump administration plans to shift much of the power and responsibility for food safety inspections in hog plants to the pork industry as…