Sep 24, 2024 WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) led Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) in introducing the Livestock Owned by Communities to Advance Local (LOCAL) Foods Act, legislation to update the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906’s (FMIA) ‘Personal-Use Exemption’to better support small-scale meat producers in rural communities. The…
Liberal democracy’s last stand against Big Tech by Barry C. Lynn Illustrations by Matthew Richardson In 1609, James I lectured the English people on his rights and responsibilities as king. It was his duty to “make and unmake” them, he said. Kings have the “power of raising and casting down, of life and of death; judges…
Milk price rules are one reason for the sharp decline By: Elizabeth Eckelkamp – September 24, 2024 5:15 am Holstein milking cows at an Idaho dairy on July 20, 2012. (Kirsten Strough | USDA) Milton Orr looked across the rolling hills in northeast Tennessee. “I remember when we had over 1,000 dairy farms in this county. Now we have…
Environmental Working Group news release WASHINGTON, D.C. – An environmental and consumer organization filed a lawsuit against Tyson Foods, Inc., the second largest meat company in the U.S. and the world, accusing the company of making "false or misleading" marketing claims targeting D.C. consumers concerned about climate change. The Environmental Working Group filed the suit…
Kansas News Service | By Calen Moore Published September 17, 2024 Facebook Calen Moore Kansas News Service Retired farmer Tom Giessel shows off some of his farming history memorabilia. He pointed out an old Farmer’s Union photo because he likes how there were a surprising amount of women represented. Kansas farms have expanded their operations…
Family farm agriculture loses one if it’s very best Columbia, Missouri William D. Heffernan – March 11th, 1939•September 11th, 2024 Obituary William “Bill” Davey Heffernan, University of Missouri Professor Emeritus, passed away peacefully on the morning of September 11, 2024 in Columbia, Missouri while holding his daughter’s hand. Bill spent the final weeks of his life surrounded…
Note from Lori Wallach: One of the key points in the document is that across-the-board tariffs on all goods from all countries are most likely to increase retail prices – because a key factor that otherwise determines whether retail process are affected by tariffs is substitution of non-tariffed goods. If folks have not, please take…
Howdy, I am quoted in the article below, I highlighted my comments. One of the foreign owners dismissed my skepticism. Really? Did he dismiss the fact that the owners of the feedlot are foreign investors from Canada? No. Did he dismiss the fact that the profits from the feedlot will go to the foreign owners?…
Hello All, Some of you may have heard about an upcoming Denver ballot initiative banning slaughterhouses called the City of Denver Citizen-Led Ballot Initiative: Slaughterhouse Ban. Denver city staff and agencies are not legally able to take stances in support or opposition of city or state ballot initiatives, however we are able to share ballot…
Industrial farming operations stuffed with thousands of hogs, cows, or chickens seriously harm our health and environment. All across the country, communities are pushing back. #Health#Meat & Dairy#Systems by Lena Beck· August 13, 2024 Image by Shutterstock/AI The thing that Kendra Kimbirauskas hadn’t expected were the trucks. As a small farmer who formerly worked with communities…