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Opinion: Big Meat hoping Supreme Court Hail-Mary comes up roses
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Desperate times often require desperate measures. That's the position Big-Meat finds itself in – desperately trying to kill California's Proposition 12.
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Opinion: U.S. Supreme Court needs to tread carefully on glyphosate challenge
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U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar has dropped the hammer on Bayer AG's attempt before the U.S. Supreme Court to end Roundup weedkiller litigation concerning the EPA approved active chemical glyphosate, recommending the court not take up Bayer's challenge.
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Opinion: Proposed FDA water safety rule comes up short?
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It's been more than a decade in the making, but sometime, perhaps later this year, the Food and Drug Administration will issue what it hopes will be a final national produce water safety standard that effectively keeps manure and other sources of pathogens out of water that grows our fresh produce. And it likely will be an utter failure.
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Opinion: Drones are making Big Meat sweat
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Too often Big Meat finds itself on the losing end of lawsuits ranging from price fixing to worker safety to treatment and welfare of animals and more. The list of wrongdoing is seemingly endless. If any industry needs to be watched like a hawk, it's Big Meat.
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Opinion: Supreme Court ruling on EPA’s Clean Power plan could have wide-ranging consequences
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In a nutshell, the SCOTUS case is putting Environmental Protection Agency authority to regulate green gas emissions on trial and how the high court rules could handcuff federal agencies, including those near and dear to agriculture — hello USDA and FDA — in consequential ways.
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Opinion: Big Chicken in the legal deep fryer yet again?
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You might say price fixing is part of Big Chicken's DNA. And perhaps the number one poster child for price collusion has been the second largest U.S. chicken company by sales volume: Pilgrim's Pride Corporation.
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Opinion: Pigs deserve better than farm-factory treatment
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In 2012, the battleground for fast-food supremacy targeted the cruel, tragic use by Big Meat of gestation crates. McDonald's made a huge PR splash in May with an announcement of a ten-year plan.
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Opinion: FDA needs to provide clarity on purity food labels
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These days, the weed-killing chemical glyphosate seems to find all sorts of ways to become a thing in our daily lives. One of the current debates centers around honey labels, proclaiming their products “Pure” or “100% Pure” despite containing trace amounts of glyphosate.
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Opinion: Geographical Indications will always be a non-starter in the U.S.
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European cheese makers really, really, REALLY detest that Americans can go to their local deli and purchase what they say are U.S. produced knock offs of any number of their cheeses, including Parmesan, feta, Gorgonzola, Asiago and Gruyere.
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Opinion: Breaking Big Meat’s monopoly isn’t for the faint of heart
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President Joe Biden has declared war on Big Meat. Yup, Biden’s war. The president pinky swears new rules and a billion dollars in new funding will somehow end decades of what amounts to a meat monopoly in the beef, pork and chicken industries.