Tofurky was suing Missouri over its first-in-the-nation state law banning labeling products with meat names if it doesn't contain traditionally harvested poultry or livestock. A meeting to settle the suit
About two years ago Maplevale Farms, Inc filed a civil lawsuit against the nation's largest chicken processors – Tyson Foods, Pilgrim's Pride, Perdue Farms, Koch Foods and Sanderson Farms are all plaintiffs – alleging the companies conspired together between 2008 and 2016 to fix poultry prices. But
This year’s Iowa State Fair received spotlight attention from coast to coast, thanks in large measure to the presence of just about everyone with an itch to be the next United States president. Shoe-horned into this Norman Rockwell-esque portrait this year was an unfortunate incident that showed an
If the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization are to be believed, U.S. farmers are in for a very, very bumpy ride over the next decade.
The people of Iowa have gotten a look at the University of Iowa’s priorities in recent weeks.
I doubt this was the message administrators in Iowa City intended to
Spearheaded by big ag lobbyists and enabled by big-ag friendly state legislatures, numerous laws have made it illegal to use deception to secretly videotape treatment of animals at private livestock and meatpacking facilities.
There's a difference between corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup. How this corn syrup question is ultimately decided can have potential implications for other food products made with corn syrup and how they are advertised before the public.
The question is: Will the Impossible Burger (and other competitors eventual entries including Beyond Meat, Memphis Meat and Cargill) be a craze, or is this the future? The nation's top meat producer Tyson Foods has gazed into the crystal ball and thinks it’s coming up meat substitutes.
How many more will it take?
How many more mass shootings?
How many more bodies of adults and children will need to pile up — in the aisles of retail stores,
When he was governor, Terry Branstad often voiced his frustration that he was not able to comment on the reasons a state government employee was fired or demoted.
In Branstad’
The last major independent U.S. cattle trade organization, the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund (R-CALF), says enough is enough. R-CALF has filed a class action lawsuit alleging four beef packers manipulated the cash market. R-CALF Chief Executive Officer Bill Bullard pulled no punches in sugges
