Protecting Food. Empowering Whistleblowers.
Protecting Food. Empowering Whistleblowers.
This article, featuring the Food Integrity Campaign, was originally published here. HSUS, Other Groups Sue Trump Administration for Speeding up Chicken Slaughter A coalition including the Humane Society of the United States today sued the Trump administration for allowing chicken slaughterhouses to dial up the breakneck speeds at which they kill birds. The increase, announced in 2018, allows […]
Note: this article, featuring our clients Jill Mauer and Anthony Vallone, was originally published here. Mystery Pork: Food Inspectors Warn New FDA Rules Can Make Meat Less Safe New quality-control rollbacks backed by the Trump administration will drastically reduce the number of trained inspectors at pork production plants across the country. Two veteran food inspectors have […]
Note: this article, featuring the Food Integrity Campaign, was originally published here. More Than 50 Groups Urge Sens. Rounds and Thune to Amend the U.S. Beef Integrity Act Billings, Mont. – More than 50 farm, ranch, consumer, manufacturing, labor and other organizations sent a joint letter today to U.S. Senators Mike Rounds (R-SD) and John Thune […]
Note: this article, featuring the Food Integrity Campaign, was originally published here. FSIS Privatizing Some Pig Slaughter Duties Plant workers to sort animals, trim carcasses before federal inspection. Starting in December, workers at swine slaughter plants will be taking over some food safety duties now performed by federal inspectors. Department of Agriculture officials finalized plans to […]
Note: this article features our client Craig Watts Civil Eats’ Animal Agriculture roundtable, “Meat Matters: 10 Years of Changes in Animal Agriculture,” features our client Craig Watts. To read the full article, visit Civil Eats’ website: https://civileats.com/2019/10/22/meat-matters-10-years-of-changes-in-animal-agriculture/.
Note: This article, featuring details about FIC’s participation in the 10/10/2019 petition drop, was originally published here. Farm activists seek ‘robust’ fair-play rules at USDA October 10, 2019 – The USDA should provide strong protections for livestock and poultry growers in their dealings with meatpackers and processors, said farm activists on Thursday in delivering petitions […]
This op-ed, originally published by Civil Eats, was written by the Director of FIC, Amanda Hitt. The Food System Needs Whistleblowers, Too After the USDA recently handed over responsibility for food safety in pork production to the industry itself, a government accountability advocate urges greater protection for whistleblowers. Whistleblowing is making headlines. But the Trump […]
This article originally appeared on the Bloomberg website. By: Andrew Martin Trump’s USDA is looking to speed up the slaughter line. In an Illinois River town where Abe Lincoln once toiled as a country lawyer, the slaughterhouse of the future runs at a speed that generations of Midwestern farmers would have dismissed as fantasy. At other factories, […]
This story originally appeared in The Intercept. By: Eyal Press LIKE MANY PEOPLE in Sanpete County, Utah, a rural area roughly 100 miles south of Salt Lake City, Jessica Robertson likes to spend her Sundays in church. Unlike many of them, the house of worship she frequents is not a chapel filled with copies of the […]
This article originally appeared in The Guardian. By: Andrew Wasley, Christopher D Cook and Natalie Jones Amputations, fractured fingers, second-degree burns and head trauma are just some of the serious injuries suffered by US meat plant workers every week, according to data seen by the Guardian and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. US meat workers are […]