Milking Profits: The Dairy Monopolies That Are Hurting Farmers Born of a noble idea, dairy cooperatives let farmers join forces to get a good price for their milk and stand up to powerful interests. Now the coops are powerful, huge, and squeezing the farmers that ostensibly own them. by Claire Kelloway September 14, 2020 Political…
‘A savagely broken food system’: Cory Booker wants radical reform … now Exclusive: US senator says everybody loses – except the massive corporations that have taken over America’s food industry Cory Booker: ‘I don’t think most Americans realize that the way we raise animals is such a betrayal of the heritage of our grandparents.’ Photograph:…
9/11 Sounds of Silence This is a moving tribute; it should also be a cautionary tale. Since 9/11 the U.S. has largely wreaked havoc on the global community and none more than Middle Eastern countries. How does war and more war solve the problems of today’s world? It doesn’t, they are made worse. At the…
Lincoln Journal Star Local View: Meatpackers need our help · WILLIAM AVILÉS · 9.11.20 Earlier this week, most Nebraskans celebrated another Labor Day, a holiday that has recognized working people for over 100 years. When this holiday was enacted into law, in 1894, Americans typically worked 12-hour days, seven days a week, in low-paying and…
Dudley Butler, former USDA/GIPSA Administrator September 6, 2020 Most have heard of a medical condition called atherosclerosis, known as hardening of the arteries. However many have not heard of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy which is a hardening of only part of the heart muscle. Neither of these diseases is reversible. However, I believe I have discovered a…
Consumers, Small Meatpackers, and Labor Lose Their Voice to Corporate Packers on USDA Food Safety Advisory Committee, Violating Charter Posted by Claire Kelloway in Beef, Chicken, Dairy, Newsletter, Pork, Resiliency, Slaughterhouse Labor Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced 10 new appointments to an independent committee advising…
The Pandemic Is Exposing the Rotten Core of Our Industrial Food System While industrial farms have been thrown into chaos, local agriculture has proved to be a more resilient model. Joseph Bullington August 14, 2020 Published in September 2020 The yellow-brown compost has been heaped into hills taller than the nearby bulldozers. The piles don’t…
OCM Releases Report on Regulatory Capture August 24, 2020 OCM Staff FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 24, 2020 Media Contact: Ben Gotschall bgotschall@competitivemarkets.com 402-540-1342 Organization for Competitive Markets Releases Report on Regulatory Capture White paper reveals ag industry and government are too close for comfort LINCOLN, NE: The Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) has released a…
A few multinational corporations are doing very well extracting our precious resources, degrading our environment, and exploiting our hardest working people. Posted on August 21, 2020 by Mike Callicrate Dr. John Helmuth, a former House Ag Committee economist under Chairman Neal Smith, said about the actions of the highly concentrated big meatpackers, “There’s an economic…