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…
Monopoly Round-Up: Kroger-Albertsons Trial Starts Tomorrow Over the next few weeks, big antitrust cases are in the courtroom. There’s the Kroger-Albertsons hearing starting tomorrow, and two trials for Google. Matt Stoller August 26, 2024 Today’s round-up for paid subscribers has lots of good stuff, as usual. But before I get to that, I want to…
The Animal Agriculture and Water Quality (AAWQ) subcommittee is seeking comments on its recent public meetings and to inform its overall directive, which is to “provide recommendations that will inform EPA’s decisions regarding how to improve the implementation of the Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation permitting program to more effectively…
Farmer/advocate pitches ‘regenerative agriculture’ practices during farm tour Christensen says such practices can reduce nitrate pollution in groundwater and rivers, resulting in healthier soil for future generations By: Paul Hammel – August 20, 2024 Graham Christensen explains the regenerative agriculture practices employed at his family’s farm east of Lyons to produce crops with less intensive…
Harris: ‘I will go after the bad actors’ who unfairly drive up food prices By Chuck Abbott, August 18, 2024 At the same time that she pledged “the first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food,” Vice President Kamala Harris said she would help the food industry become more competitive. “As president, I will take…
Harris: ‘I will go after the bad actors’ who unfairly drive up food prices By Chuck Abbott, August 18, 2024 At the same time that she pledged “the first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food,” Vice President Kamala Harris said she would help the food industry become more competitive. “As president, I will take…
Harris: ‘I will go after the bad actors’ who unfairly drive up food prices By Chuck Abbott, August 18, 2024 At the same time that she pledged “the first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food,” Vice President Kamala Harris said she would help the food industry become more competitive. “As president, I will take…
Harris: ‘I will go after the bad actors’ who unfairly drive up food prices By Chuck Abbott, August 18, 2024 At the same time that she pledged “the first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food,” Vice President Kamala Harris said she would help the food industry become more competitive. “As president, I will take…
Harris: ‘I will go after the bad actors’ who unfairly drive up food prices By Chuck Abbott, August 18, 2024 At the same time that she pledged “the first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food,” Vice President Kamala Harris said she would help the food industry become more competitive. “As president, I will take…
Harris: ‘I will go after the bad actors’ who unfairly drive up food prices By Chuck Abbott, August 18, 2024 At the same time that she pledged “the first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food,” Vice President Kamala Harris said she would help the food industry become more competitive. “As president, I will take…