Investigate Midwest (https://investigatemidwest.org/tag/us-department-of-agriculture/)
While president-elect Joe Biden has not announced any specific plans to protect meatpacking workers, advocates believe there are things he could, and should, do.
Between 1960 and 2017, the quantity of wasted food increased more than 230 percent, according to EPA data.
Over the past decade, foreign companies have been investing in agricultural land in the United States at a record pace, according to a Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting analysis of USDA data. The data was compiled from 1900 to 2014 under the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act (AFIDA).