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An email from the Iowa assistant attorney general revealed plans to file the settlement with the court later in the day to avoid media scrutiny.
Industry•4 min read
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The shift marks an end to the broader Biden-era fight against consolidation throughout the supply chain.
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Researchers found emissions from beef, pork and chicken consumption exceeded the entire carbon footprint of Italy.
Research•6 min read
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President Trump’s trade war has hit America’s biggest agricultural export.
Policy•5 min read
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The nation’s largest retailer is poised to become a significant player in the beef industry, owning cattle from slaughter to sale.
Food•9 min read
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Nearly a dozen environmental and community groups are challenging the EPA’s exemption that farms don’t need to report hazardous gases released from animal waste.
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The summer of 2025 was the most un-swimmable Iowa summer yet, thanks in part to pollution from farms.
Climate•4 min read
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While SNAP payments and food safety inspections continue, disaster payments, farm loans and federal workers’ pay are on hold indefinitely.
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The federal agency that oversees disputes of workplace safety violations, including in meatpacking plants, has been without leadership for more than five months.
Food•3 min read
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Factory farm dust can spread E. coli and could have sparked a large food poisoning outbreak in 2018, a new study shows.
Science•5 min read
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Central Valley residents say the state’s program for cutting methane emissions incentivizes factory farms and leaves local communities gasping.
Climate•9 min read
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When a sweeping scientific study called for eating less meat, the meat industry launched a full-scale attack. And we could be in for a repeat.
Food•9 min read
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10 groups, including Earthjustice and the Environmental Integrity Project, filed suit in the Ninth Circuit, arguing that the EPA is ignoring its own findings.
Policy•4 min read
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The flesh-eating parasite has moved from cattle to people. Should we be worried?
Health•6 min read
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Iowa clean water advocates criticized the EPA’s move to reverse a decision adding seven Iowa river segments to the state’s impaired waters list.
Climate•6 min read
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Chick-fil-A buys its chicken from Mar-Jac Poultry, a company fined by the Department of Labor for employing 14-year-olds to eviscerate poultry at an Alabama packing plant.
Policy•3 min read
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How rumors the brand was going bankrupt spread, and what that says about the discourse.
Food•5 min read
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A decade later, the pork plant became the subject of a scathing complaint to the EPA about working conditions.
Food•2 min read
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New research shows roughly a quarter of the nation’s large cattle, dairy and hog farms are located in just 30 U.S. counties.
Research•6 min read
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Representative Veronica Escobar introduced new legislation to curb slaughter of downed pigs.
Factory Farms•5 min read
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Beef prices are at a record high, but that doesn’t mean less meat production.
Big Meat•8 min read
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Less than two years into a five-year, multi-million dollar campaign to research building consumer trust, the pork industry shifts focus.
Food•5 min read
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The meat industry’s climate pollution is largely unregulated, but the EPA’s proposed policy reversal could make it even worse.
Climate•4 min read
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200 JBS employees from four countries are losing their U.S. work authorization.
Food•2 min read
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The ban is already having some real-world consequences.
Climate•9 min read
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How the “megabill” could undermine the push to eat more plants.
Policy•9 min read
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Trump’s inconsistent enforcement of immigration policy is wreaking havoc on farm operations and meatpacking plants.
Policy•6 min read
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In-ovo sexing has the potential to spare at least 300 million male chicks each year in the United States from slaughter.
Breakthroughs•3 min read
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A bipartisan bill aims to stop commercial octopus farming before it starts.
Factory Farms•5 min read
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Students currently need a doctor’s note to require a school to provide non-dairy milk. A new bill would change that.
Policy•6 min read
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Proponents for the bill hope to curb environmental pollution and bolster small dairy farms.
Factory Farms•6 min read
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Federal oversight is shrinking as policy proposals echo Project 2025's deregulatory agenda.
Policy•6 min read
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The megabill is a “grab bag of Republican and meat and dairy industry interests,” but its fate is uncertain.
Policy•8 min read
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“It's hard to get ahead of it, because the animals can't talk to us and tell us they have a problem.”
Policy•8 min read
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The Keep Finfish Free Act would require Congressional approval for commercial aquaculture facilities.
Policy•7 min read
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The rule, which has been in the works for years, would have made American consumers safer.
Food•4 min read
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Advocacy groups asked regulators to block JBS’ bid, noting its history of corruption charges and illegal deforestation. Approval came after a big donation to Trump.
Food•6 min read
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The partnership aims to fill a research gap with statewide listening sessions and a review of the scientific literature.
Health•4 min read
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It’s still a highly volatile situation, but here’s what we can predict.
Policy•10 min read
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JBS, Cargill and Tyson appear to have misled consumers.
Food•8 min read
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The precedent in prisons exists.
Food•8 min read
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Inside the latest attempt to undo the landmark animal welfare law.
Policy•9 min read
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Work on overfishing and weather forecasting — vital to climate protection — have been gutted, according to House Democrats and environmental advocates.
Climate•6 min read
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During a visit to Iowa, Secretary Rollins suggested that the administration would consider financial relief for farmers.
Policy•3 min read
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The goal is to allow meatpacking plants to set their own processing line speeds, an agency spokesperson said.
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Over 100 words and phrases are now banned, many of them essential to any discussion of climate.
Policy•5 min read
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Many employees have been reinstated, but the Trump administration is moving forward with plans to slash federal jobs.
Policy•5 min read
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Walmart and Kroger are among the retailers overlooking a major source of food-related climate pollution.
Food•5 min read
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The agency has opened an investigation into high egg prices and corporate price-gouging.
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The latest continuing resolution to pass the Senate will greatly impact rural programs.
Policy•3 min read
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