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Child labor law reductions might become Iowa’s solution to labor shortages

By Dan Flynn on March 6, 2023

Child labor bills in Iowa might grease the skids for human trafficking but that’s not apparently a concern for sponsors. The approach for changes in child labor in Iowa is to allow employment by those…

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Raw milk wins in Georgia, runs ahead in Missouri, but dies in Iowa

By Dan Flynn on April 28, 2022

Governor Brian P. Kemp made a special occasion earlier this month for signage of his administration’s Georgia Grown Farm to Food Bank legislation (SB 396), the Freedom to Farm Act (HB 1150…
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Iowa Senate approves on-farm sales and distribution of unpasteurized, raw milk

By Dan Flynn on March 12, 2022

Many times during the past two decades, it looked like Iowa consumers were going to lose their protection from the hazards of raw milk. But, the Iowa Legislature has always come through by continuing the…
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Circuit courts differ over whether lies to access property are protected by the First Amendment

By Dan Flynn on August 24, 2021

A verbose 10th Circuit has split with the 8th Circuit over whether lying is constitutionally protected speech. The disputed ground between the Denver-based 10th Circuit and the St. Louis-based 8th Circuit involves their interpretations of…
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State reports different numbers for Jimmy John’s outbreak than CDC did

By News Desk on August 19, 2021

When the CDC declared a Jimmy John’s E. coli O103 outbreak over with a total of 51 people infected from 10 states, the agency included only three patients from Iowa.

However, a report from the…
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Eighth Circuit breaths life back into Iowa’s ‘ag-gag’ law

By Dan Flynn on August 12, 2021

For the conservative Eighth Circuit, lying to gain access to the property on the premise that animal abuse might be occurring does not cut it as First Amendment-protected speech.

A three-member panel on Aug. 10…
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BrightFarms expands recall of packaged salad greens linked to Salmonella outbreak

By News Desk on July 28, 2021

Amid an ongoing outbreak, BrightFarms is expanding a recall of packaged salad greens that were produced in its Rochelle, IL, greenhouse farm and sold in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana and Michigan because of potential Salmonella…
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Children in Iowa hospitalized with E. coli infections; investigators looking for cause

By News Desk on June 8, 2021

Public health officials in Eastern Iowa are investigating a cluster of E. Coli infections that has hospitalized at least three children with a severe type of kidney failure known as HUS.

Investigators have not identified…
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Iowa is 7th state to earn OK for interstate sales of state-inspected meat, poultry

By News Desk on May 27, 2020

The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service and the state of Iowa have finalized a Cooperative Interstate Shipment (CIS) agreement.  It allows state-inspected meat and poultry products to be shipped across state lines.

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Kansas becomes 4th state with unconstitutional “ag-gag” law

By Dan Flynn on January 29, 2020

Federal judges did not much like the newer laws to protect animal agriculture from prying eyes. So-called “ag-gag” laws adopted during the last decade in Utah, Idaho, and Iowa were struck mainly down as unconstitutional…
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