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Ag commissioner encouraged by Trump order to DOJ to investigate packers for cattle market manipulation May 28, 2020 By Brandon Moseley Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries Commissioner Rick Pate (R) thanked President Donald J. Trump (R) for asking the Department of Justice to investigate the Big Four meatpackers for possible market manipulation of the…

Senate Democrat introduces bill to protect food supply By Alex Gangitano – 05/27/20 12:55 PM EDT © Greg Nash Sen. Debbie Stabenow (Mich.), the top Democrat on the Agriculture Committee, introduced a bill on Wednesday to protect the food supply that has been disrupted due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Food Supply Protection Act would…

Opinion: Software to Swallow — Impossible Foods Should Be Called Impossible Patents Intellectual Property Model of Food Maintains Harmful Reliance on GMO Grains, Detracts from Regenerative Agriculture, Hastens Soil Loss Seth Itzkan May 25 Impossible Foods Patents — Partial Listing Impossible Foods should really be called Impossible Patents. It’s not food; it’s software, intellectual property…

Published Wednesday, May 20, 2020 EDITORIALS BY ART CULLEN We would almost say we are grateful that testing for COVID-19 finally hit Buena Vista County, long after the virus did. Grateful is not quite the right word. Grateful that the government finally got around to its mandated public health responsibilities? Relieved is more like it….

For OCM members, a roundup of the week’s news concerning corporate consolidation and monopoly power in food and agriculture. May 22, 2020 OCM Press Release For OCM members, a roundup of the week’s news concerning corporate consolidation and monopoly power in food and agriculture. May 22, 2020 OCM Press Release OCM Calls for Moratorium on…

Monopolies in Meat: Endangering Workers, Farmers, and Consumers Deregulation has led to Big Ag’s giant slaughterhouses, where COVID-19 is rampant and the supply chain grinds to a halt. by Ron Knox May 4, 2020 Francis Gardler/Lincoln Journal Star via AP The Smithfield Foods plant in Crete, Nebraska, which will continue to operate on a reduced…

Germany’s meat industry under fire after COVID-19 outbreaks The German government is poised to approve better protections for workers in the meat industry. The squalid living quarters and unsafe working conditions aren’t new, but COVID-19 has prompted politicians to finally act. Following coronavirus outbreaks at several German meatpacking facilities, Germany’s labor minister is leading the…

Civil Eats – As COVID-19 Disrupts the Industrial Meat System, Independent Processors Have a Moment to Shine Big Meat put most small slaughterhouses out of business. Those left are demonstrating their resilience, but their limited numbers point to the need for improved infrastructure. By Lisa Held Posted on: May 19, 2020 Donna Kilpatrick runs the…

As major meat processors buckle under Covid-19 crisis, busy smaller competitors fight red tape by Baylen J. Linnekin 05.07.2020, 1:30pm USDA/ Preston Keres Could America’s small- to mid-sized meat processors pick up the lost capacity when large packers have to close? They might. But federal meat-inspection laws and regulations are standing in the way. As…

Piglets are crowded in a nursery at Greg Boerboom’s farm in Marshall, Minn.Credit…Jenn Ackerman for The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/business/coronavirus-farmers-killing-pigs.html By Michael Corkery and David Yaffe-Bellany · May 14, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET · o One Minnesota hog farmer sealed the cracks in his barn and piped carbon dioxide through the ventilation system. Another farmer…