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South Dakota ranch family got pardon; likely got off light at time of crimes

By Dan Flynn on January 23, 2021

They are not the last cowboy song but they are likely the final full pardons from the 45th President of the United States.

And they are being forgiven for breaking some of the most basic…
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Senator’s Call for Meat Industry’s Answers Exposes Reach of Money in Politics  

By Guest Contributor on July 4, 2020
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By Brendan Fischer and Maggie Christ

Despite what you might think, America’s broken campaign finance system is about more than expensive ads flooding your screen and glossy mailers clogging your mailbox. The outsized

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Trump’s order to keep meat plants open gives big business a loophole

By Center for Science in the Public Interest on April 30, 2020
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President Trump’s executive order keeping meat plants open during the COVID-19 pandemic is a further threat to the health of the women and men who produce our food. The order would gut any incentive…
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Letter From The Editor: Brashears confirmation vote long overdue

By Dan Flynn on March 1, 2020
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USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is getting a new top administrative officer. Paul Kiecker, who joined the agency in 1988 as a food inspector, is succeeding Carmen Rottenberg as FSIS Administrator.

Kiecker,…
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Consumer Reports taps former USDA food safety official to direct food policy

By News Desk on January 7, 2020

Consumer Reports Monday announced the appointment of former USDA deputy undersecretary Brian Ronholm as director of food policy for the 80-year old non-profit organization.

“Mr. Ronholm will lead Consumer Reports’ advocacy efforts to advance a …
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Ag groups tell Senate it is time to confirm Mindy Brashears as Under Secretary for Food Safety

By Dan Flynn on July 31, 2019

American Agriculture is letting the U.S. Senate know that 68 months is long enough to go without a USDA under secretary for food safety.

Ten of the nation’s largest and most influential agricultural organizations have…
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Beach Beat: Is food safety essential to public safety? Good question

By Coral Beach on January 10, 2019
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Tomorrow some of the fuzzy math related to the government’s operational status will come into clear focus for many so called non-essential federal employees when they don’t get paid.

Nuances of federal funding mean…
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Senate finally moves to fill USDA’s long-vacate top food safety post

By Dan Flynn on November 20, 2018

The Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry will finally conduct a public nomination hearing on Nov. 28 for Mindy Brashears to become USDA’s under secretary for food safety.

Six months and 24 days after…
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Here’s why Trump’s plan to consolidate food safety efforts won’t work

By Timothy D. Lytton on June 25, 2018

Editor’s note: This opinion column was originally published by The Conversation and is republished here with permission.


The Trump administration on June 21 unveiled an ambitious plan to consolidate federal food safety efforts within the…
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One of them could be USDA under secretary for food safety

By Dan Flynn on October 27, 2017

President Trump and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue may be close to revealing who will be named, subject to U.S. Senate confirmation, the next USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety. And among those who hear…
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