Since late last year when Missouri became the first state to ban lab-grown food from being labeled as “meat,” laws in five more states have put the same labeling limits on these emerging technologies and
Continue Reading The ban against lab-grown food using “meat’ on the label grows to 7 states
While lawyers continue talking in Missouri, lawmakers in at least three more states have passed bills to legally prohibit “mislabeling” of food products derived from animal cultures, plants or insects as meat.
Mississippi Gov, Phil
Continue Reading 3 states join contested Missouri ban on using “meat” on cell-cultured product labels
ELK POINT, SD — A 12-member jury and four alternates, including 11 women and five men, are ready to hear opening arguments today in a $1.9 billion defamation trial scheduled to last eight weeks here
Continue Reading Jury trial begins today in BPI v. ABC on the saga of ‘pink slime’
Mandatory country-of-origin-labeling bills for beef and ground beef made it out of committees in Pierre and Cheyenne, but got no further in the farm and ranch friendly South Dakota and Wyoming Legislatures.
Senate Bill 135
Continue Reading Wyoming, South Dakota nix country-of-origin-labeling for beef
As individual actions, they might not mean much. Collectively, they say Country-of-Origin Labeling (COOL) is not going away anytime soon.
Two states known for their cowboys, Wyoming and South Dakota, have seen early introduction of
Continue Reading Ranchers look for some traction on country-of-origin labeling
Anyone who ate or drank at the Pizza Works restaurant in Custer, SD, between June 19 and July 5 is at risk of exposure to Hepatitis A, the state Department of Health reports. 
“A case
Continue Reading South Dakota officials issue Hepatitis A warning
Oregon’s ban on advertising raw milk, which is no longer enforced, will likely be removed from the law books entirely after a 9-0 vote Thursday by the House Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources. The
Continue Reading Oregon’s Ban on Raw Milk Advertising Could be Headed for the History Books
A soybean industry group in South Dakota plans to launch a TV, print and radio ad campaign in January with the goal of “dispelling misconceptions” about farming and food safety. 
Entitled “Hungry for Truth,” the
Continue Reading SD Soybean Group Launching Food-Safety Campaign
A laboratory mistake made less than one month after new raw milk rules went into effect in South Dakota has opened a legislative window for eliminating some of the state’s new food safety measures on
Continue Reading SD Raw Milk Dairies Press For Change After State Lab Makes Big Mistake
Update: Further test results from the South Dakota Department of Agriculture found the milk from Jerseydale Farms to contain Listeria innocua, a harmless variety of Listeria. The initial concern was that the milk contained Listeria
Continue Reading Listeria Contamination Found in Raw Milk From South Dakota Dairy Farm
