Corporate farming

U.S. Rep. Dina Titus Honored with Leadership Award by Competitive Markets Groups

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

LAS VEGAS, NV, Feb. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) and Competitive Markets Action (CMA), recently announced the recipients of their 2023 Congressional Awards and honored U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, D-NV, with their Leadership Award for her work to reform the U.S. Dept.

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  • LAS VEGAS, NV, Feb. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) and Competitive Markets Action (CMA), recently announced the recipients of their 2023 Congressional Awards and honored U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, D-NV, with their Leadership Award for her work to reform the U.S. Dept.
  • Titus has worked in bipartisan fashion alongside former Rep. Dave Bratt, R-VA, Rep. Nancy Mace, R-SC, and Sens.
  • “I’m proud to receive the Competitive Markets Leadership Award for my work to improve federal oversight of the agriculture industry,” said Rep. Dina Titus, D-NV.
  • The foundation of the Organization for Competitive Markets is to fight for competitive markets in agriculture for farmers, ranchers and rural communities.

Competitive Markets Groups Announce Congressional Award Winners, Legislator of the Year

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Thursday, February 15, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, the Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) and Competitive Markets Action (CMA), publicly announced the recipients of their 2023 Congressional Leadership Awards and their Competitive Markets Legislator of the Year Award recipient, U.S. Rep. Alex Mooney, R-WV.

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  • WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, the Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) and Competitive Markets Action (CMA), publicly announced the recipients of their 2023 Congressional Leadership Awards and their Competitive Markets Legislator of the Year Award recipient, U.S. Rep. Alex Mooney, R-WV.
  • Rep. Alex Mooney, R-WV, was selected as the Competitive Markets overall Legislator of the Year for 2023.
  • Quotes from the Members of Congress:
    “I’m honored to be named the Competitive Markets Legislator of the Year in Congress.
  • The foundation of the Organization for Competitive Markets is to fight for competitive markets in agriculture for farmers, ranchers and rural communities.

ASPCA Launches Supermarket Scorecard to Take Stock of Grocery Stores' Commitment to Farm Animal Welfare

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Monday, August 28, 2023

NEW YORK, Aug. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) today announced the launch of the ASPCA Supermarket Scorecard, the only consumer resource that ranks U.S. grocery retailers on multiple farm animal welfare issues. The inaugural report tracks top supermarkets' commitment to eliminating farm animal confinement and other intensive practices from their supply chains while empowering consumers to shop from retailers aligned with their values. Specifically, the 2023 report tracks commitments and progress in three key areas, including cage-free eggs, gestation crate-free pork, and alignment with the Better Chicken Commitment—a set of standards at the heart of a global campaign to improve the welfare of billions of chickens raised for meat.

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  • Consumers overwhelmingly reject cruelty to farm animals and want to know where their supermarket stands on these basic but critical welfare issues," said Nancy Roulston, senior director of corporate policy & animal scientist, ASPCA Farm Animal Welfare.
  • "The ASPCA is working with some of the largest supermarket chains to help them swiftly adopt and progress on strong welfare policies.
  • "We are proud to be leading in transparency as we continue to make progress on our animal welfare commitments."
  • The ASPCA Supermarket Scorecard is part of the ASPCA's Shop with Your Heart® program , launched in 2016 to inform consumers, food businesses and lawmakers about more humane options.

Patriotic Small Town Farmers Rally and Reelect Officers in Kansas City at Annual Meeting for the Organization for Competitive Markets

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Monday, July 31, 2023

The OCM conference comes on the heels of OCM's Farm Bill Summit and fly-in to Washington, D.C. the prior week.

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  • The OCM conference comes on the heels of OCM's Farm Bill Summit and fly-in to Washington, D.C. the prior week.
  • Members of OCM joined the conference from Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, California, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming.
  • The Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Lincoln, Nebraska.
  • The foundation of the Organization for Competitive Markets is to fight for competitive markets in agriculture for farmers, ranchers and rural communities.

Cornucopia Decries Big Ag's Efforts to Kill Animal Welfare Regulation

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Friday, October 21, 2022

VIROQUA, Wis., Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The long arms of Big Ag are reaching into organic. A flurry of closed-door meetings with lawmakers has drawn out the public comment period on an animal welfare rule in organic, giving the conventional food industry more time to overwhelm the Federal Register with reasons to kill it.

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  • The proposed Organic Livestock and Poultry Standards (OLPS) rule would enshrine animal welfare as an essential part of the organic label.
  • This thinking is currently playing out in the Supreme Court, where the pork industry is attempting to stop a California animal welfare law.
  • USDA needs to know that consumers want better animal welfare and are willing to pay for it.
  • "We need animal welfare improvements immediately," says Cornucopia Board President and organic broiler producer Cameron Molberg.

Socially Responsible Agriculture Project Affirms Support of Laws that Create Market Opportunities for Independent Family Farmers, As U.S. Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments on California’s Prop 12

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Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Prop 12 set standards regarding how pork and other foods sold in the state of California are produced, creating important market opportunities for independent family farmers.

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  • Prop 12 set standards regarding how pork and other foods sold in the state of California are produced, creating important market opportunities for independent family farmers.
  • The brief also demonstrates how Californias Proposition 12 benefits independent and sustainable U.S. farmers.
  • Prop 12 recognizes that the market for sustainably raised pork is growing, and fosters healthy competition and economic opportunities for small, independent farmers.
  • SRAP and its partners believe laws like Prop 12, that disrupt the stranglehold agribusiness has on the industry, will create opportunities for Americas independent family farmers.

SUPREME COURT HEARS ARGUMENT OVER CALIFORNIA ANIMAL CRUELTY LAW

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Tuesday, October 4, 2022

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On October 11, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a lawsuit challenging a California animal cruelty law, Proposition 12, which passed in a 2018 landslide victory, with over 60% of the vote. Animal protection organizations, including D.C.-based Animal Outlook, have intervened as parties to support California in defending the law. Fifteen State Attorneys General have also weighed in, submitting a friend-of-the-court brief in support of Prop 12. The coalition of intervening organizations say that the case–which was filed by powerful corporate interests within Big Ag in an attempt to gut an overwhelmingly popular law–is a threat to the rights of voters to protect animals from some of the worst abuses in animal agriculture.

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  • Voters' Victory Banning Extreme Confinement Under Threat, as Pork Industry Challenges California's Proposition 12
    WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On October 11, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a lawsuit challenging a California animal cruelty law , Proposition 12 , which passed in a 2018 landslide victory, with over 60% of the vote .
  • Animal protection organizations, including D.C.-based Animal Outlook , have intervened as parties to support California in defending the law.
  • U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a lawsuit challenging a California animal cruelty law.
  • more space, and the industry has fought them all the way to the Supreme Court to keep some of the worst animal cruelty on California's grocery shelves
    and intensive confinement is far from the only type of widespread cruelty in the industry," said Cheryl Leahy, Executive Director of Animal Outlook.

Socially Responsible Agriculture Project Submits Amicus Brief to U.S. Supreme Court Supporting California’s Prop 12

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Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Socially Responsible Agriculture Project (SRAP), on behalf of 17 organizations across the country, filed an Amicus Brief with the U.S. Supreme Court highlighting the connection between growing consolidation and anticompetitive behavior rampant in the food system.

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  • Socially Responsible Agriculture Project (SRAP), on behalf of 17 organizations across the country, filed an Amicus Brief with the U.S. Supreme Court highlighting the connection between growing consolidation and anticompetitive behavior rampant in the food system.
  • The Amicus Brief demonstrates how Californias Proposition 12 benefits independent and sustainable U.S. farmers.
  • SRAPs Amicus Brief challenges the position of the National Pork Producers and American Farm Bureau Federation, who oppose Prop 12 because it will disrupt the market control of the multinational meatpackers they represent.
  • This filing with the court points out that many farmers were already compliant with Prop 12 before it passed, and others have invested to become compliant.