NFU E-News — New Bill an "Important Step" Towards Racial Equity Though there is a long, rich history of Black farmers in the United States: a century ago, Black families owned an estimated 15 million acres and operated 14 percent of all U.S. farms. But decades of systemic discrimination and the abuse of legal loopholes…
Scott gets nod for House Ag Committee chairmanship House Agriculture Committee Flickr Georgia representative chosen to take over leadership position with absence of Rep. Collin Peterson. Jacqui Fatka | Dec 02, 2020 The House Democratic Steering Committee selected Rep. David Scott of Georgia over Rep. Jim Costa of California on a 32-19 vote as its…
December 3 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Mobile Meat Processing: Mike Callicrate MOA 2020 Virtual Conference Session Schedule For the first time, the MOA Annual Conference and Business meeting will be delivered online via Zoom. While not an ideal situation, the Conference Committee determined that it is valuable to connect as members with MOA’s…
Pig guts fly in offal fight over meat imports in Taiwan’s parliament Opposition party’s ‘disgusting’ protest prompts scuffle in Taipei legislative yuan Helen Davidson in Taipei and agencies Fri 27 Nov 2020 06.57 EST Last modified on Sat 28 Nov 2020 00.24 EST Fists and pig guts fly in Taiwan’s parliament debate on US pork…
State And Federal Efforts To Help Small Meatpacking Plants May Take Time by Jonathan Ahl, Harvest Public Media A worker at Swiss Meat and Sausage prepares bacon for sale in this 2019 file photo. (Photo by Jonathan Ahl, Harvest Public Media)0 November 23, 2020 A joint effort by federal and state governments to help small…
Consolidation Creates Dangerous and Fragile Food Systems, Report Argues By Claire Kelloway November 24, 2020 Last week, rural sociologist Dr. Mary Hendrickson presented a new report – commissioned by the Family Farm Action Alliance – on the dangers of consolidating food production into fewer, corporate hands. From COVID-19 supply chain disruptions to inflated food prices,…
Farm Action and allies are requesting an FTC investigation of Cargill for making false and misleading claims about its turkey products. Dear Mike, Today, Family Farm Action Alliance and six other organizations filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting an investigation of Cargill, Inc. for making false and misleading claims about its…
Black Farmers Have Been Robbed of Land. A New Bill Would Give Them a “Quantum Leap” Toward Justice. “This is the Black Farmers Civil Rights Act of 2020, and it’s long overdue.” Tom Philpott ReporterBio | Follow PeopleImages/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter…
Today is the day we launch our special report, “The Food System: Concentration and Its Impacts.” Read the report here. Dear Mike, It’s here! Today we launch our special report, “The Food System: Concentration and Its Impacts.” It provides the latest updated data on the state of concentration in the agrifood system, and outlines what…
Lawsuit: Tyson managers bet money on how many workers would contract COVID-19 By Clark Kauffman– November 18, 2020 Tyson workers have had plastic dividers separating them on the production line. (Photo provided by Tyson Fresh Meats) A wrongful death lawsuit tied to COVID-19 infections in a Waterloo pork processing plant alleges that during the initial…