“Food Sovereignty is the flame that will show us the way”, insists La Via Campesina as it marks #16October in a pandemic year PRESS STATEMENT: 16 October 2020, International Day of Action for Peoples’ Food Sovereignty and against Transnational Corporations Harare: Thirty-five million confirmed cases—over a million dead people. All in just eight months. COVID…

1: That the Government acquire through the Railroad Administration all rolling stock used for the transportation of meat animals and that such ownership be declared a government monopoly. 2: That the Government acquire through the Railroad Administration the principal and necessary stockyards of the country, to be treated as freight depots and to be operated…

Parent of Brazil’s JBS pleads guilty to U.S. foreign bribery charges By Jody Godoy, Sabrina Valle NEW YORK/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil’s J&F Investimentos, parent company of the world’s largest meatpacker, JBS SA JBSS3.SA, pleaded guilty to U.S. foreign bribery charges and agreed to pay $128.25 million in criminal fines, prosecutors said on Wednesday….

Farmers and Meatpackers Are Teaming Up During the pandemic and recession, farmers are realizing they have more in common with immigrant meatpackers than agribusiness CEOs. by Sarah Anderson The Wisconsin initiative is not the first time farmers have joined with meatpacking workers to demand stronger COVID-19 protections. (Photo: TumblingRun/flickr/cc) For family farmers like Hans Breitenmoser,…

JBS SA parent pleads guilty to US foreign corruption violations By Anna Flávia Rochas on 10/15/2020 J&F Investimentos and subsidiary JBS SA have agreed to pay fines to end legal exposure tied to a corruption scandal in Brazil revealed in 2017, according to a company statement Wednesday. J&F Investimentos pleaded guilty to violating the U.S….

Pilgrim’s Pride to pay $110M in price-fixing plea agreement By Lisa M. Keefe on 10/14/2020 Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation announced that it has entered into a plea agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, in which it will pay a fine of $110.5 million for restraint of competition that affected three contracts for the…

New USDA Ruling Allows for Chicken to Be Produced From Diseased Birds Mura Dominko 8/19/2020 When the president invoked the Defense Production Act in April, to keep essential goods in production through the pandemic, it had some unexpected consequences on the food supply chain. © Provided by Eat This, Not That! usda building The meat…

Meat processing plant coming to Mott VIDEO by: Robert Suhr Posted: Sep 30, 2020 / 09:10 PM CDT / Updated: Sep 30, 2020 / 09:36 PM CDT After a year of planning, 50 mile an hour winds couldn’t stop the ceremonial shovels from hitting the ground. It was a “who’s who” of North Dakota dignitaries…

WSJ NEWSLETTER Six Chicken-Industry Officials Indicted for Price Fixing New charges expand Justice Department’s antitrust case in ongoing probe of poultry industry Prosecutors alleged the price-fixing took place from 2012 into early 2019. PHOTO: DANE RHYS/REUTERS By Jacob Bunge and Brent Kendall Oct. 7, 2020 Six current and former chicken-industry executives have been indicted on…

Hit by too much rain, then drought, a derecho and the pandemic, Iowa farmers roll into a harvest unlike any before Donnelle Eller Des Moines Register RADCLIFFE, Iowa — On a late September day, Denny Friest deftly reversed the direction of his corn head, spewing out a large knot of tangled, downed stalks that had…