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Sep 30, 2024 | 
foodandwaterwatch.org | Mia DiFelice |Rebecca Wolf
Just weeks after Vice President Kamala Harris promised to tackle price gouging, a Kroger executive admitted in court that the company had done just that. The Senior Director of Pricing at Kroger testified in a federal lawsuit that the company raised prices for some products higher than inflation. The testimony was part of a hearing in the suit brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which seeks to block a $24.6 billion merger between Kroger and fellow grocery giant, Albertsons.
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May 24, 2024 | 
foodandwaterwatch.org | Rebecca Wolf |Mia DiFelice
Last year, the Supreme Court affirmed a huge win for state authority to regulate agricultural goods. It upheld a California law that only allows the sale of pork, veal, and eggs from animals raised in improved living conditions. But Big Ag and its cronies in Congress couldn’t let this go without a fight.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
qoshe.com | Rebecca Wolf
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
foodandwaterwatch.org | Mia DiFelice |Rebecca Wolf
Thanks to Big Ag, our food system has been in crisis for years. We’re seeing hollowed-out rural communities, ruined environments, and a handful of ultra-rich corporations profiting from the mess they’ve made. While Big Ag makes record profits, families have seen grocery store prices skyrocket. Meanwhile, median farmer income has been negative for 24 of the last 25 years. So far, our leaders have not made the changes we need to repair our food system.
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Oct 8, 2023 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Nancy Dugan |Laura Belin |Gerald Ott |Rebecca Wolf
Nancy Dugan lives in Altoona, Iowa and has worked as an online editor for the past 12 years. During the Iowa Utilities Board's October 3 evidentiary hearing on Summit Carbon Solutions' proposed CO2 pipeline, Summit attorney Bret Dublinske asked landowner Craig Woodward, “Are you aware that in Cerro Gordo County, 83 percent of the route has been acquired by voluntary agreement?”Brian Jorde, an attorney for landowners who oppose the pipeline, quickly objected. “Irrelevant.
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Oct 7, 2023 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Laura Belin |Gerald Ott |Rebecca Wolf |Rick Morain
Russell Lovell was troubled by the segregation and discrimination he witnessed growing up in a small Nebraska town and resolved to work on civil rights while attending law school in his home state during the late 1960s.
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Oct 6, 2023 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Gerald Ott |Laura Belin |Rebecca Wolf |Rick Morain
Gerald Ott of Ankeny was a high school English teacher and for 30 years a school improvement consultant for the Iowa State Education Association. The image at the top of this post comes from the Linn County Republicans' graphic promoting their upcoming October fundraiser. The event is billed as a Reagan Breakfast starting at 7:00 AM. We all know Reagan won’t be there. The former president, never one to get up that early, has been dead for nearly 20 years.
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Laura Belin |Rebecca Wolf |Rick Morain |Randy Evans
Hinson, Miller-Meeks back Steve Scalise for House speaker Thursday, Oct 5 2023 0 Comments Two of Iowa's four U.S. House members laid down their marker early in the battle to elect a new House speaker. U.S. Representatives Ashley Hinson (IA-02) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-01) announced on October 5 that they will support current House Majority leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana for the chamber's top job.
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Rebecca Wolf |Laura Belin |Rick Morain |Randy Evans
Rebecca Wolf is Senior Food Policy Analyst at the national advocacy group Food & Water Watch. Get involved in the fight for a fair Farm Bill at foodandwaterwatch.org. Amidst the Congressional chaos of the past week, one important deadline passed rather inconspicuously. The Farm Bill expired on September 30, the last day of the federal fiscal year. Passed every five years, the Farm Bill is a suite of policies passed on a bipartisan basis to keep our food and farm system running.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
lancasterfarming.com | Rebecca Wolf
The United States’ food system is facing a crisis eerily similar to what we experienced almost 100 years ago: A corporate-dominated marketplace, strangled by an elite few, that holds farmers and consumers hostage to greed. At the time, lawmakers responded by creating the first Farm Bill, establishing federal policies to level the playing field. This fall, Congress has an opportunity to tackle these issues anew as it negotiates the 19th Farm Bill.
