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At the May 21st hearing, attorney General Eric Holder was urged to enforce federal antitrust laws on behalf of contract poultry growers who raise flocks like this one. While these growers raise most of the nation’s chicken, they have don’t own the birds and have virtually no job security.
Today, poultry growers from throughout the [...]

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Green Fork fans – we apologize for the lack of content on our blog this week. We had some problems with our server and are glad to be back on line. Meanwhile, it’s been a fabulous week for the program – with scintillating coverage in The Washington Post, Huffington Post and more.  Check it [...]

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From our friend Ralph Loglisci at Center for a Livable Future -

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health embraced the Meatless Monday campaign back in 2003, and the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future has proudly served as the national campaign’s scientific advisor ever since. Today I welcome and laud The Johns Hopkins [...]

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A conflict in New Mexico is shaping up as a pitched battle between industrial dairy’s desire to avoid regulation and the public’s right to clean, safe drinking water.  According to the state environment department, at least two-thirds of the groundwater underneath or adjacent to New Mexico’s dairy CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations) has [...]

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While farmers were the star of the show at last Friday’s antitrust hearing in Ankeny, Iowa, the debate over the monopolization of farming is one where all of our interests are squarely at stake.

Anyone who eats and has a brain should be downright terrified that just a few giant businesses control the vast majority of food available to us as consumers. Perhaps that explains why more than 15,000 people submitted comments in anticipation of the hearings – four more of which are scheduled this year as a joint effort of the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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