An employee handles sides of pork on a conveyor at a Smithfield Foods Inc. pork processing facility in Milan, Mo. – Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images by Dan Charles | September 17, 2019 For the first time in half a century, the U.S. government just revised the way that it inspects pork slaughterhouses. The change has…

Six Actions Sonny Perdue Can Take Today to Save the U.S. Cattle Market September 18, 2019 OCM Staff USDA Secretary can make the difference, but will he? No matter whether you call yourself a farmer or a rancher; no matter if you raise cattle, hogs, chickens or row crops; whether you are a citizen-consumer who…

Meatpacking should be next – Break ‘em up! Google under antitrust investigation by 50 attorneys general They will focus on the company’s ad and search business first By Makena Kelly September 9, 2019 2:59 pm Photo by Gabriella Demczuk/Getty Images On Monday, 50 attorneys general from US states and territories signed onto an antitrust investigation…

Morgan Spurlock and his brood in “Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!”CreditCreditSamuel Goldwyn Films The second Morgan Spurlock cinematic dining outing takes fast food out of the fire and into the deep fryer. by Glenn Kenny | September 5, 2019 The activist documentarian Morgan Spurlock blended Michael Moore-style showmanship with Gen X bro appeal in…

Beef farmers protest over prices for their animals during a picket at the Dawn Meats plant in Grannagh, Co Kilkenny. Protesters call on Minister to intervene as 18 beef processing plants picketed by Tim O’Brien, Sarah Slater | August 6, 2019 Members of the farmers’ group Beef Plan Movement who are protesting against prices paid…

by Niall Claffey Sep 3, 2019 Farmers are continuing to protest outside the gates of certain beef processing plants, and the latest kill figures from the department of agriculture’s beef kill database indicate that just over 34,185 cattle were slaughtered during the week ending August 25 – a decrease of 3,857 head from the previous…

Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg By Deena Shanker and Polly Mosendz | September 3, 2019 Companies producing more than 90% of America’s chicken have conspired to depress wages for a largely immigrant work force in some of the nation’s most dangerous jobs, according to a lawsuit. The case filed last week is mostly based on interviews with…

“The husbandman shall be the first partaker of the fruits.” – St. Paul Patti Naylor, Darvin Bentlage, John Harter and Christopher Mosel | Iowa View contributors | 9:59 am CDT August 30, 2019 Two longtime Iowa politicians, Sen. Charles Grassley and now dairy industry lobbyist Tom Vilsack, held a press conference recently touting the gains…

Irish farmers protest at factory gates over low beef prices and system ‘unfairness’ 14 Aug 2019 Alex Black Irish beef farmers have been protesting outside factory gates over low beef prices with the protestors looking to change the ‘unfairness’ in the system. Irish farmers protest at factory gates The processors and farmers had come together…