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Our January 2018 story on the lack of buffer zones from pesticides around schools and daycares in the Midwest began with a simple question: What laws protect our communities from pesticide drift?
A roundup of news, reports and research on agribusiness and related
issues.
SNAP participants will soon have the
ability to buy food online. | Modern Farmer
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP) participants will soon have the ability to use SNAP benefits to
purchase online groceries. The program will start in New York and expand to
other states. USDA beefs up efforts to stop the spread of African swine fever. | New Food Economy
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture is elevating their efforts to stop the spread of African swine
fever, an illness spread through an animal’s bodily fluids.
A roundup of news, reports and research on agribusiness and related issues.
Tyson Foods installs x-ray and metal detection machines to fix their contamination problem. | AJC.com
Tyson Foods faced almost 12 million pound of chicken strips. In effect are plans to utilize metal detectors and x-ray machines to fix future metal contamination in company products. California bans the pesticide, chlorpyrifos. | The Guardian
The Trump Administration has reversed an Obama administration decision to ban a pesticide that is known to cause health issues.
The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting is hosting its first Dinner and Docs event on June 18. It will be an evening of dinner, a documentary and discussion around U.S. chicken production. The event will also highlight how the media covers issues of food and farming.
A California jury made an unprecedented $2.055 billion ruling in favor of a married couple who claimed a pesticide made by agrichemical company formerly known as Monsanto caused their cancer. Alva and Alberta Pilliod filed the case on Aug. 14, 2017, against Monsanto alleging the repeated use of the pesticide Roundup and its key ingredient glyphosate since the 1970s caused their non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The Livermore, Calif. couple were awarded $1 billion each in punitive damages and $55,206,000 in compensatory damages, the Associated Press reported.
Communities in Missouri have been fighting the expansion of large-scale livestock operations in the state for years. But a controversial pair of bills moving through the state legislature would make community oversight of those farms even harder.
A Midwest restaurant is buying Calyno™ High Oleic Soybean Oil from Calyxt that fashions itself as a “consumer-centric, food- and agriculture-focused company.” It is also the first commercial use of a gene-edited food in the U.S.
As early as this month, the Trump administration could allow pork plant employees rather than federal inspectors to be responsible for hazard analysis and critical control points inspection measures.
Whoever emerges as leading U.S. lights to develop policy will need to take into consideration just how the deck is stacked against implementing climate change policy that can make a difference and what cracks to exploit to save Earth from itself.
Bayer has agreed to obey a U.S. federal judge’s order, entering a mediation with the plaintiff in the RoundUp trial. The plaintiff has claimed Bayer did not warm of potential cancer risk associated with the Roundup weedkiller.
Enter the National Cattlemen's Beef
Association and the highly anticipated joint agreement between the Food and Drug Administration and United States Agriculture Department over oversight of
cell-based meat technology.
The deal – released last month – calls for FDA and USDA to each do what they do best. FDA will regulate cell collection, cell banks, and differentiation.
A new federal review of the health impacts of glyphosate, a weed-killer known more commonly as RoundUp, acknowledge that while more research was needed – it could not rule out a link between glyphosate and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.