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Category: Opinion

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Big Meat lobbyists are bullying lawmakers into submission

Avatar photo by Dave Dickey June 1, 2023June 1, 2023 Why you can trust Investigate Midwest

When just four corporations — Tyson Foods, JBS USA, Cargill and National Beef — account for 85% of all U.S. grain-fattened cattle that are made into steaks, beef roasts and other cuts of meat for consumers, it doesn’t take much imagination to think Big Beef has little tolerance for anything reducing profits. One for all […]

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Food waste is in the eye of the beholder

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California Prop 12 alive and kickin’ but expect future litigation

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A truthful ‘Product of USA’ label for beef? Get ‘er done!

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Infant deaths due to formula contamination could have been avoided

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The ‘milk’ kerfuffle that just won’t go away

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Tyson’s failed federal court gambit was an act of desperation

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Wake up and sound the plastic alarm

Avatar photo by Dave Dickey March 23, 2023March 23, 2023 Why you can trust Investigate Midwest
A farm field southwest of Bondville, IL, owned by Augusta Farms, a company based in Brazil on Monday, June 3, 2019.
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New provisions of the Agriculture Foreign Investment Disclosure Act require prudence

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The Iowa SNAP misdirection game

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