by Drew Ramsey and Tyler Graham | Apr 26, 2012 In this excerpt from The Happiness Diet, discover how Procter & Gamble convinced people to forgo butter and lard for cheap, factory-made oils loaded with trans fat. Before highways and before railroads, America conducted her commerce via steamship over water through a system of rivers,…
posted May 15, 2019 Microbiologist, climate scientist and founder of Healthy Soils Australia Walter Jehne discusses climate and soil health. Interviewed by Tracy Frisch WALTER JEHNE is an internationally known Australian soil microbiologist and climate scientist and the founder of Healthy Soils Australia. He is passionate about educating farmers, policymakers and others about “the soil…
Sonny Perdue, now President Trump’s Agriculture Secretary, met with Brazilian meatpacking mogul Wesley Batista in 2010, according to a press release from his own office. (AP) by Chris Sommerfeldt | June 12, 2019 Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue tried to rewrite history Wednesday by denying he ever met with a corrupt Brazilian businessman whose massive meatpacking…
By Dan Barber | June 7, 2019 Additional reporting and graphics by Ash Ngu | Photographs by Ruth Fremson Not long ago I was sitting in a combine tractor on a 24,000-acre farm in Dazey, N.D. The expanse of the landscape — endless rows of corn and soybeans as precise as a Soviet military parade…
Photo from chefranden on Flickr. posted by Food & Power Last week, several senators called onthe USDA to stop giving federal trade-related farm aid to foreign-owned corporations, particularly Brazil’s JBS, the largest meatpacker in the world. This follows a bill by Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., that would require USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service to only purchase foods from American companies, when available….
Mike Weaver said he voted for Trump based in part on his promises to help farmers like him. Now he’s disappointed that the administration rolled back regulations to check the power of big meat companies. (Annie Flanagan, special to ProPublica) The Agriculture Department is barely enforcing regulations on big meat companies. by Isaac Arnsdorf |…
The JBS SA logo is displayed at their headquarters building in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. Photographer: Paulo Fridman/Bloomberg by Leah Douglas | May 30, 2019 In a new lawsuit, environmental advocates say a Colorado beef-packing plant owned by JBS has been dumping polluted wastewater into a river for years. The suit…
Tim Ryan SOURCE: Nati Harnik Ohio congressman wants to shift more government farming subsidies to family farms by John DiStaso Political Reporter | April 11, 2019 MANCHESTER, N.H. —U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, the latest Democrat to formally enter the presidential race, wants to not only modernize the nation’s manufacturing base, but he also has an…