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4 Ways Tyson Foods Made 2020 Worse
Photo: RiverNorthPhotography/iStockphotoTyson Foods is the nation’s largest (and world’s second largest) meat and poultry producer. It operates 110 processing plants with 121,000 employees in the...
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Questions for a Once-and-Future Agriculture Secretary
Secretary Vilsack is no stranger to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. Here, he appears at a hearing on the Farm Bill in February, 2015. USDA photo by Bob Nichols/FlickrThe...
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Tyson Foods Wants to Be Our Valentine. Thanks, But No Thanks.
In the latest weird 2021 moment,* meat and poultry giant Tyson Foods is running a marketing campaign involving chicken nuggets arranged into freakish bouquets for Valentine’s Day. Here at the Union of...
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To Save Its Soil and Clean Up Its Water, Iowa Needs to Act Fast(er)
USDA NRCSIowans have long prized their state’s deep, rich soils and its position as an agricultural powerhouse. In the heart of the Corn Belt, its farmers lead the nation in corn acres planted, and...
View ArticleWhy “Infrastructure” Includes the Ground Beneath Our Feet
We’ve heard a lot of opinions about what is, and isn’t, infrastructure. Now I’ll add my hot take: Soil is infrastructure.
View ArticleJuneteenth Is Now a Federal Holiday, But Justice is Delayed (Again) for Black...
Injustice has been intertwined with agriculture since the beginning of this country. It's still here.
View ArticleDisempowered by Tyson—How Big Chicken Hurts Farmers, Workers, and Communities...
Tyson has aggressively consolidated its power in the chicken industry—and workers and farmers are hurting.
View ArticleIs Tyson Foods’ Vaccination Push Too Little, Too Late?
Tyson's PR spin doesn't protect workers and communities from COVID
View ArticleWill the Biden Administration Take Down America’s Meat Cartel?
Biden administration poised to break exploitive power of Big Meat and Big Chicken, including Tyson Foods.
View ArticleTyson Foods Is a Monster in Disguise
Try as they might, Tyson Foods can't dress up the facts.
View ArticleAt Tyson Foods, Workers Need More than a Year-End Bonus
Workers at Tyson Foods got a raise and a bonus in 2021, but that doesn't make up for the dangerous and dehumanizing conditions they face every day.
View ArticleTyson’s Actions on Sustainability Don’t Match Its Words
Tyson Foods is too big to allow it to repeatedly reject calls from shareholders to make its operations more sustainable.
View ArticleAs Climate and Nutrition Crises Collide, We Need a New Research Agenda
There are a lot of problems facing our food and agriculture today, and they’re all connected. To solve such a complex mix of problems, we need to see the connections clearly and identify ways to...
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Consumers Tell Tyson Foods to Keep Its Sustainability Promise
My colleagues and I here at the Union of Concerned Scientists were surprised when we saw the size of the “feed footprint” attributable to meat and poultry giant Tyson Foods. The term refers to the...
View ArticleWhy I Have Renewed Hope for Climate Action on Farms
Watching the climate crisis unfolding all around us, I’ve experienced a rollercoaster of hope and disappointment over the last year. With last week’s surprise announcement about a Senate compromise on...
View ArticlePresident Biden’s Farm Bill Must Transform Our Food System
Roughly every five years, Congress passes legislation known as the Farm Bill, a nearly trillion-dollar package of investments that touches all of our lives, every day. It determines who US farmers and...
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Tyson Foods’ New CFO Demonstrates How to Fail Up
In a remarkable display of nepotism, meat and poultry giant and “family business” Tyson Foods recently promoted the 32-year-old son of its chairman to the position of chief financial officer (CFO),...
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Nuts, Drought, and My Quest for the Perfect Pecan Pie
This time of year, the air is scented with cinnamon and nutmeg. Whatever you’re celebrating this season, baking is likely a part of it. And that may mean you stocked up recently, as I did, on...
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Six Reasons Why You Should Care about the (So-Called) Farm Bill
The last few years have been marked by Big Food corporations exploiting and endangering workers, ripping off farmers, and jacking up grocery prices to pad their profits, but 2023 is a chance to turn...
View ArticleIllinois Dust Storm Disaster Is a Warning for Agriculture
On a stretch of interstate highway in central Illinois last week, a freak dust storm caused a series of massive vehicle pileups that killed seven people and injured dozens more. The cause of the...
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Poll Shows Strong Support for a Food and Farm Bill that Protects Workers
The heat wave plaguing the vital agricultural region of California’s Central Valley this past week serves as yet another reminder of the dangers facing farmworkers, who are essential to putting food...
View ArticleAs Expiration Looms, a Look Back at the 2018 Food and Farm Bill
The five-year federal legislation commonly known as the farm bill is about to expire with no new bill in sight. As congressional leaders contend with the more immediate problem of averting a...
View ArticleThe IRA Made Huge Climate Investments in Rural Areas. Now, the Food and Farm...
Here at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), we started referring to the period between June and October in the Northern hemisphere as “Danger Season” in 2022. But summer 2023 was when the climate...
View ArticleWhat COP28 Means for Climate Action in a US Food and Farm Bill
The international climate talks that wrapped up in Dubai, United Arab Emirates this week—formally known as the 28th Conference of the Parties, or COP28—had been billed as something of a watershed for...
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