The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has proposed a new framework to address salmonella in poultry processing. Unfortunately, this proposal is based on a…
Join us for a COOL Week of Action
Published January 24, 2022 The Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance joins our allies in conducting a COOL Week of Action, January 24-28! Organizations across…
Can we please just know what country our meat comes from?
Published December 14, 2021 You may have noticed that the labels on many foods in the grocery store include what country the food comes from. However,…
Read FARFA’s Testimony on the Use of Custom Slaughterhouses
Published on September 28, 2021 The USDA Advisory Committee on Meat & Poultry began meeting on Monday, Sept. 27, to respond to the USDA’s request…
Stop the mergers in the poultry industry
Published August 31, 2021 The control over our food supply by a handful of large corporations is at the root of so many problems…
Last chance to tell USDA to decentralize our food system
Published June 21, 2021 The USDA is seeking public comments on agricultural and food supply chains. We sent out an alert a few weeks…
FARFA asks Journal to revise process following publication of flawed study
Published January 22, 2021 In late December, the Journal of Food Protection published a study from the University of Houston, claiming to have found safety…
USDA opens new funding program for farmers hurt by COVID
The USDA has launched a second round of COVID-19 relief payments that will hopefully reach more farmers, many of whom were left out of previous aid…
USDA plan boosts global ag at expense of family farms
Independent family farmers are facing going out of business and consumers are facing record high meat prices, all due to the highly consolidated meat industry that…
Tell USDA No to More Herbicide-Doused Corn
Bayer/Monsanto has petitioned the USDA to approve a new corn seed that has been genetically engineered to survive applications of not just one or two…