Mindy Brashears, the former head of the USDA's agency overseeing meatpacking plants, has been largely quiet about her agency’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, in exclusive interviews, she addresses the criticism the USDA put food production over worker safety.
The program will pair high school and college students in what’s called a “near peer” model to help ease the minority participants into the mentorship.
The dinner doesn't need to be disclosed to authorities, raising questions about how effective state lobbying rules are. “If someone doesn't record it,” one expert said, “how are you going to find out?”
Two of the largest poultry processing companies in the country, Wayne Farms and Sanderson Farms, will soon be merged to create one corporation amid a DOJ antitrust lawsuit against the companies. One expert fears the lawsuit won’t do enough to stop the merger from overpowering the chicken industry.
