Published Wednesday, May 15, 2019 EDITORIAL BY ART CULLEN President Trump is worsening an economic disaster by ratcheting up a trade war with China. On Friday the US announced new tariffs on a wide range of Chinese imports, to which China retaliated on Monday by hiking tariffs on soy, pork and poultry. Soybean futures markets…
by Trevor Reid | May 16, 2019 Steam rises in the air at the JBS Meat Packing Plant in Greeley in this 2013 Tribune file photo. (Jim Rydbom/For The Tribune) JBS USA will receive another $40 million in federal subsidies through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s bailout program meant to help U.S. farmers negatively impacted…
by Chris Sommerfeldt | May 16, 2019 Joesley and Wesley Batista, owners of Brazil-based meat-packing company JBS SA, are pictured in separate file photos. (AFP/Getty Images) The Trump administration has forked over more than $62 million — taxpayer cash that was supposed to be earmarked for struggling American farmers — to a massive meatpacking company…
by Leisa Boley Hellwarth, a dairy farmer and attorney near Celina | May 15, 2019 David sued Goliath in federal court in Chicago on April 23, 2019, alleging violations of U.S. antitrust laws, the Packers & Stockyards Act and the Commodity Exchange Act. Actually David is R-CALF-USA (Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America),…
posted on May 13, 2019 by Carey Gillam After less than two full days of deliberations, a California jury ordered Monsanto to pay just over $2 billion in punitive and compensatory damages to a married couple who both developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma they say was caused by their many years of using Roundup products. After listening…
The Meating place had an article today about JBS making record profits this quarter On Tue, May 14, 2019, 5:33 PM Mike Callicrate <mike> wrote: “Why is the USDA bailing out plants operated by JBS, the largest meatpacker in the world, with a program designed to help domestic companies and producers under economic duress? For…
“Why is the USDA bailing out plants operated by JBS, the largest meatpacker in the world, with a program designed to help domestic companies and producers under economic duress? For Immediate Release May 14, 2019 Pork Plant Operating Under Privatized Inspection Model Receives Second Bailout from USDA[foodandwaterwatch.org] Washington, D.C. – A JBS-Swift pork plant located…
Monopoly power is all around us: as consumers, business owners, employees, entrepreneurs, and citizens. When we purchase everything from washing machines to groceries, website domains to medical supplies, and even when we select a coffin for a recently deceased loved one, we are constrained by the small set of actors who increasingly control America’s commerce….
(Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) by Claire Kelloway | April 24, 2019 About three and a half seconds. That’s how long inspectors currently have to check a pig carcass for lesions, hair, infected organs, or fecal matter before it’s sent whirring to workers, who slice up the roughly 250-pound animals in a freezing room, side…
Applying pesticides to farm field. (photo: Getty) California to Outlaw Pesticide Harmful to Kids By Brian Melley, Associated Press 08 May 19 he nation’s most productive agricultural state will ban a widely used toxic pesticide blamed for harming brain development in babies, California officials said Wednesday. The move would outlaw chlorpyrifos (klohr-PY’-rih-fohs) after scientists deemed…