Dave Dickey

3 days ago | investigatemidwest.org | Dave Dickey

Big Meat is at it again. Begging the courts – any court – to carve out a First Amendment exemption that would prevent trespassers at processing plants and production facilities from recording and disseminating illegal or unethical activity. To date the Supreme Court hasn’t been sympathetic with Big Meat’s plight. KansasIn 2022, The high court reviewed Animal Defense Fund v. Kelly.

1 week ago | investigatemidwest.org | Dave Dickey

Up to now there has been one colossal failure after another in Bayer AG’s efforts to end all lawsuits claiming glyphosate — the active ingredient in the company’s weedkiller Roundup — can cause cancer, primarily non-hodgkin’s lymphoma. Plaintiffs in state courts all across America cite a 2015 International Agency for Research on Cancer study that found glyphosate was “probably carcinogenic to humans.”Bayer vehemently disagrees.

3 weeks ago | investigatemidwest.org | Dave Dickey

Tyson Foods’ claim that it could reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 through “climate-smart beef” is laughable. The brass at Tyson unveiled its magical greenhouse gas-canceling Brazen Beef at the 2023 Annual Meal Conference in Dallas. Tyson told anyone willing to listen that Brazen Beef produces 10% less greenhouse gas emissions from pasture to production when compared to traditionally produced cattle. Which is a pretty neat trick.

1 month ago | investigatemidwest.org | Dave Dickey

The nation’s climate denier-in-chief, President Donald Trump, has wasted no time throwing monkey wrenches into federal efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That includes scrubbing websites. The Environmental Data and Government Initiative reports the feds have already deleted climate change language from more than 200 websites, including the Environmental Protection Agency. But buried deep in the EPA web pages, unreachable from the home page, is EPA’s Climate Change Impacts page.

1 month ago | investigatemidwest.org | Dave Dickey

Of course it was just a matter of time. The laboratory cell-based revolution has already produced chicken, fish, and beef substitutes that, once cooked up and plated, are practically indistinguishable from their live counterparts. In the U.S. there’s been backlash against the idea that a mother of four could one day fill her shopping cart with meat substitutes made from cell cultures. Numerous state legislatures are attempting to restrict or ban the sale of lab-cultured meat.