Retail Consolidation: Crisis Across the Food Chain June 8, 2023 Amid the ongoing fight to stop the disastrous proposed Kroger-Albertsons merger, Farm Action’s Angela Huffman discussed the downstream effects of retail consolidation on farmers, consumers, and other small retailers during the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s (ILSR) recent webinar. Angela spoke alongside FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya,…

Checkoff program critics eye farm bill to win new restrictions 06/07/23 By Noah Wicks Agri-Pulse Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., (left) and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, (right) confer on the sidelines of a 2018 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Critics of commodity checkoffs are making a fresh run at imposing new restrictions on…

Diane Sare, candidate for United States Senate in New York, in a discussion with American farm leaders and Secretary Leader of the Netherland Farmers Defence Force,” Sieta van Keimpema” leading the fight to prevent cutting Dutch farming in half! Full interview and discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DecWpeMgmE&t=9s

USDA releases ‘Product of USA’ labeling survey data By Chris Moore on 5/23/2023 The USDA released survey results on consumer understanding of the "Product of USA" labeling claim. Proposed rules would allow the claims on single-ingredient products derived from animals born, raised, slaughtered, and processed in the United States. Multi-ingredient products could also use the…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 17, 2023 Media Contact: Dee Laninga, dlaninga, 202-450-0094 Ag Appropriations Bill Aims to Kill USDA Meatpacking Competition Rulemaking Republican House Appropriators Cave to Corporate Meatpacking Lobby Washington, D.C. — The FY24 Agriculture Appropriations bill and summary released this morning by the House Appropriations Committee included a harmful provision to prevent USDA…

Big Meat lobbyists are bullying lawmakers into submission In his latest column, Dave Dickey takes on Big Beef’s big players — Tyson, JBS, Cargill and National Beef — and their shenanigans to protect their bottom lines. by Dave Dickey June 1, 2023 Ground beef meat products at a grocery store in Fairfax, Virginia. USDA Photo…

From Great American Prairie to Dried Up Industrial Wasteland Posted on May 31, 2023 by Mike Callicrate The first settlers came upon a vast grassland teaming with ruminant animals and wildlife. Rivers flowed from the mountain peaks to the west, bringing precious watr and life to the prairie land, and filling one of the largest,…

Concerning the lack of animal welfare in Colorado’s industrialized agriculture, and California’s Prop 12 – a response to one of the issues Rachel Gabel discusses in her recent editorial: Dear Rachel Gabel, As a mother, grandmother, gardener, retired faculty member, advocate for addressing our climate emergency,…I was appalled by your critique of Governor Polis’s comments…

Kenzy: OFF Act Sets New Standards for Government . (Hall & Hall) By Brett Kenzy May 22, 2023 The following opinion by R-CALF USA president Brett Kenzy was submitted to Drovers in response to an opinion by NCBA president Todd Wilkinson, Fight the Animal Rights Groups Infiltrating Our Industry, published by Drovers (and many other…

by Marion Nestle May 24 2023 Annals of greenwashing: the Beef Checkoff I could hardly believe this ad in the New York Times last Friday. Cattle as a promoter of biodiversity? My usual question: Who paid for this? The only clue was the little checkmark and in tiny letters Funded by beef farmers and ranchers….