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| Aug 20, 2025 | Soybean farmers urge Trump to cut a deal with China: ‘We cannot survive a prolonged trade dispute’ | Historically, China has been the top buyer of US soybeans by “a staggering margin,” says the American Soybean Association. This year, with US soybeans facing retaliatory tariffs amid the ongoing trade war, China is going elsewhere.
In a let... |
| Apr 3, 2025 | Food & ag groups blast ‘destabilizing’ tariffs, seek exemptions: ‘We urge the White House to reconsider’ | Food and farming organizations have joined a long queue of industry groups urging the Trump administration to rethink blanket tariffs or exempt key products in a bid to limit damage to US consumers and “iconic American manufacturers.”
In an... |
| Nov 8, 2024 | The Ripple Effect of Trump's Tariffs on the Food Industry | The recent victory of Donald Trump in the 2024 election has sent shockwaves through the food and beverage industry. His proposed tariffs, a cornerstone of his economic strategy, threaten to reshape the landscape of American agriculture and ... |
| Nov 7, 2024 | ‘Four more years of chaos…’ Food & ag organizations respond to Trump victory | A resounding win for Donald Trump in the US election is prompting enthusiasm in some quarters of the food industry and intense anxiety in others.
Given the lack of detail in the official Republican party platform on food and ag, meanwhile, ... |
| Oct 25, 2024 | Big Ag is spending big on lobbying and the 2024 election | Listen to the article 5 min
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Agribusinesses with deep pockets have poured record sums of money into lobbying and election campaigns over the past few years as lawmakers d... |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Tyson Foods Under Fire: The Greenwashing Controversy | Tyson Foods, a titan in the American meat industry, is facing a storm. An environmental group has launched a lawsuit, accusing the company of greenwashing. The term refers to misleading claims about environmental practices. In this case, Ty... |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Tyson Foods Faces Greenwashing Lawsuit Over ‘Climate-Smart’ Brazen Beef | 5 Mins Read US meat giant Tyson Foods has been sued by an environmental group for misleading consumers about the sustainability credentials of its “climate-smart” Brazen Beef.
Tyson Foods, America’s largest beef producer, is being accused o... |
| Apr 8, 2024 | JBS Lawsuit: What New York’s Case Against the World’s Biggest Meat Company Means for the Livestock Industry | 6 Mins Read Brazilian meat giant JBS has faced plenty of lawsuits in its time – but the latest one could be the most damaging one of them all, given that it comes from a state attorney general. If the government intervention prevails, there... |
| Jan 15, 2024 | JBS Backlash Goes Political as US & UK Lawmakers Ask SEC to Reject IPO Filing | 6 Mins Read The pushback against JBS’s plans to go public is no longer confined to just climate activists – politicians from the US and the UK are the latest to air their concerns in letters to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC... |
| Sep 27, 2023 | The World’s Largest Meat Company is Building a Cultivated Protein R&D Facility | 6 Mins Read Brazilian meat giant JBS has broken ground on a $62M cultivated meat research and development facility in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina. Billed as the largest food biotech centre in Brazil, it’s scheduled to open at the end of 2... |
| Aug 31, 2023 | Climate Activists Attempt to Block Brazilian Meat Giant JBS’s IPO in the US | 4 Mins Read Environmental groups are urging the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to halt Brazilian meat giant JBS’s planned US IPO, citing its failure to adhere to climate and corporate governance pledges. The activists call it t... |
| Mar 7, 2023 | New report: Global hunger set to spiral as countries forced to choose between repaying debt and feeding population | Global public debt, the highest seen in 60 years, is causing a spike in food insecurity, according to a new report. This is especially true for low-income countries where around 60% are facing a debt crisis and debt servicing costs have gon... |
| Feb 21, 2023 | Brief: World’s largest meat producer JBS appeals against challenge to net zero claims | The world’s biggest animal protein producer JBS is appealing a recommendation to stop making some of its climate claims. The Better Business Bureau’s National Advertising Division (NAD) recommends JBS “discontinue claims relating to its goa... |
| Jul 31, 2022 | RIP Former Philippine President Fidel V. Ramos—Looking Back at His Tech, Science Contributions | Griffin Davis , Tech Times 31 July 2022, 09:07 pm
Former Philippine President Fidel V. Ramos died at the age of 94. His death was confirmed by his family on July 31.
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Former Philippine president Fide... |
| May 10, 2022 | How Windfall Profits Have Supercharged Food Inflation | Food inflation is being juiced by windfall profits. getty |
| May 5, 2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Zepto bags $200m, Stanford launches climate change school | This week, Indian “instant delivery” e-grocer Zepto got closer to unicorn status with its Series D fundraise, while Colombia’s RobinFood raised funds to expand its ghost kitchen network across Latin America. Elsewhere, cultivated leather st... |
| Apr 6, 2022 | BREAKING: Alternative proteins ‘will not save the planet,’ report warns | Alternative proteins have been touted as a key answer to greening emissions-heavy food systems and attracted billions in investment over the past years, but a new report published today warns they “will not save the planet”.
Cultured and pl... |
| Oct 27, 2021 | Lasting Damage To Workers And Regions From Expanded China Trade | A new report documents lasting damage to many workers and regions from expanded trade with China. getty |
| Aug 27, 2021 | These Vegan Cheese Wedges by Good Planet Foods Are What Snacks Dreams Are Made Of | 3 Mins Read
American plant-based dairy startup Good Planet Foods has just expanded its range with snack-sized vegan cheese wedges. The new Plant-Based Cheese Wedges come in three flavours, and are designed to be a convenient cruelty-free al... |
| Aug 2, 2021 | Basmati rice: How to cook and store the popular grain | Basmati rice is commonly served alongside Indian cuisine.
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Basmati rice is known for its fluffy texture, floral aroma, and unique nutty taste.
You can make basmati rice on the stovetop, in an Instant Pot, or in a rice c... |
| Jul 29, 2021 | Basmati rice: How to cook and store the popular grain | Basmati rice is commonly served alongside Indian cuisine. nazar_ab/Getty Images
Basmati rice is known for its fluffy texture, floral aroma, and unique nutty taste.
You can make basmati rice on the stovetop, in an Instant Pot, or in a rice c... |
| Apr 22, 2021 | Bitcoiners Should Go Vegan to Save Bitcoin | This Earth Day, I propose a simple solution to bitcoin’s massive ecological footprint: Bitcoiners should go vegan en masse. (Relax, it's satire.)
Bitcoin isn’t switching to proof-of-stake. (Sorry, New York Times.) And a pathway towards a fu... |
| Nov 9, 2020 | The Power To End Systemic Corruption Is In The Hands Of Africa's New Wave Of Entrepreneurs | By Enyonam Nanevie, founder and CEO at Building Community Bridges, providing communities in West Africa with access to basic needs and economic opportunities. |
| Jun 25, 2020 | California Ushers In An Electrifying New Era In Trucks | Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg© 2018 Bloomberg Finance LP |
| Apr 21, 2020 | Cargill to pay Iowa soy farmers for carbon sequestration & water quality | Carbon credit markets are being touted by some as a promising method for incentivizing farmers to adopt farming practices that sequester carbon while giving them an additional income stream. The concept has now caught the attention of major... |
| Oct 17, 2018 | Burger chains still lag on antibiotic policies | Consumer groups scorched nearly every fast-food burger chain in the country for continuing to buy beef raised using antibiotics in ways that make them less effective on humans.
Only two small but up-and-coming chains, Shake Shack and Burger... |
| Jul 20, 2018 | Big Meat & Dairy to Surpass Oil as Biggest Pollutors | The Institute for Agriculture Trade and Policy (IATP), together with non-profit farming organisation GRAIN, have released a significant study which analyses emissions from 35 of the world’s biggest meat and dairy companies, and asks how the... |
| Dec 8, 2017 | Can Technology Get Slavery Out of Food Supply Chains? | Modern slavery is back at the top of concerned consumers’ minds again after slave auctions in Libya were caught on camera and widely shared last month. Just after the video went viral, The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) i... |
| Nov 17, 2015 | TPP Says Food Health Policies Must Be 'Science-Based,' Except When That Would Harm Profits | The good news is that we finally have the complete text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. The bad news is that it runs to 6,194 pages, not including dozens of “related instruments” and “side chapters.” There is no way that anybody... |
| May 28, 2015 | Even Before TPP And TTIP, US Already Being Forced To Change Laws By Trade Agreements | Recently, we looked at how corporate sovereignty provisions undermine democracy by irrevocably binding future governments. The analysis was framed in terms of the UK’s situation, but applied more generally to any country that signs up to in... |
| Jan 24, 2014 | Susty Party: sustainable kitchenware startup at 8 employees, $1M revenue | Susty Party began as a company that scoured the web for sustainably sourced and made party supplies and then curated them on its ecommerce site. That was 2009. It has since grown into a company that is producing its own party goods under it... |
| Jul 9, 2013 | Leaked EU Policy Papers Show TAFTA/TTIP's Huge Challenges — And Some Subtle Signals | After last Wednesday’s debate, the European Parliament passed a resolution on the subject of NSA surveillance, which included the following mild wrist-slap: |