Month: March 2025

DOJ opens investigation into egg companies for price-fixing

The probe comes as egg prices hit record highs.By Marcia Brown | 03/07/2025 03:59 PM ESTThe eggs price is displayed on the edge of a shelf at a grocery store in Glenview, Illinois, on Feb. 10, 2025. | Nam Y. Huh/AP The Justice Department is investigating whether the nation’s largest egg producers are conspiring to…



Fast Food Nation to Barons – What Happened to the U.S. Food System?

March 7, 2025 by Mike Callicrate How a nation, once able to feed itself and others, lost its food system and became dependent on imported food … Fast Food Nation To Barons – What Happened to the U.S. Food System?



From Lori Wallach: Pl read: kick ass NYT tariffs oped today

Please read this very smart dose of tariff sanity from Rep. Chris Deluzio today via a New York Times oped. It calls out Dems to rethink how they talk about tariffs while simultaneously smacking down Trump’s crazy tariff rollercoaster and tariff mistargeting (ie. we have mainly balanced trade w/ Canada.) He summarizes the policy case…



Hatching a Conspiracy: A BIG Investigation into Egg Prices

        Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Hatching a Conspiracy: A BIG Investigation into Egg Prices ‘More hens, less income!’ So said the United Egg Producer economist Donald Bell in 1994. The industry has gotten more consolidated ever since. And avian flu is just the latest excuse to hike prices. Basel…



Ranch Group Supports New Tariffs; Wants More

R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America Fighting for the Independent U.S. Cattle Producer     Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa View and share this news release on Facebook here and X here, or view the web version here.     Ranch Group Supports New Tariffs; Wants More BILLINGS, Mont., March 4, 2025…