Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years. Wednesday, December 04, 2024
Jim Webster

Jim Webster

Jim Webster Contributing Editor

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R-CALF USA wants probe of JBS takeover of beef plants

The Ranchers-Cattlemen’s Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America (R-CALF USA) has asked for a federal investigation of JBS USA’s plan to assume management of, and potentially acquire, U.S. and Canadian slaughter plants owned by XL Foods of Alberta.
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California expert to head effort to measure livestock impact

Frank Mitloehner, the California-Davis air quality expert who challenged a 2006 UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) report that wildly exaggerated the environmental impact of livestock, has been named chairman of an FAO-led partnership that will improve how environmental impacts of the live
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