An independent cattlemen’s group is charging its larger competitor with using federal “Beef Checkoff” marketing dollars to illegally influence government actions and policies.
The Billings, MT-based R-CALF United Stockgrowers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture’s food safety programs are not treated equally in the $3.7 trillion budget plan released by
President Obama will release his 2012 budget today, a critical part of the heated debate about how to fund the federal government and deal with rising national debt.
As Steve
Two years ago this week Stewart Parnell, the embattled CEO of Peanut Corporation of America, the company implicated in a nationwide Salmonella outbreak that sickened 700 and killed nine, stood
The Dean of the House of Representatives is calling on Congress to “adequately fund” the U.S. Food and Drug Administration so it can implement the sweeping food safety law
Washington, DC-based Food & Water Watch is praising Congress for “uniting” against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s expected approval of genetically-engineered (GE) salmon.
The groups executive director,
In a letter delivered to each member of the Oregon Legislature Wednesday, the Oregon Dairy Farmers Association (ODFA) told why it opposes opening up the gates on unpasteurized milk in
House Republicans Thursday released a more detailed picture of the cuts that would be required under their budget proposal for the remainder of fiscal year 2011, which is slated to
The pork industry is taking issue with Mark Bittman’s inaugural New York Times food opinion column, “A Food Manifesto for the Future.” In a letter to the editor published
Key House Republicans released a proposal late last week to cut $58 billion from the federal budget for the second half of Fiscal Year 2011. Food safety programs at both
Senators Mark Begich (D-AK) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) reintroduced a bill Tuesday that would ban genetically engineered (GE) salmon, a fast-growing fish that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is going into overdrive and and working with the food industry to meet the historic mandate of the new food safety law, Michael