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Safety and Health Magazine: NELP to USDA: Faster Poultry-Processing Line Speeds During COVID-19 Pandemic ‘Irresponsible and Reckless’

Note: this article, featuring Government Accountability Project and the Food Integrity Campaign, was originally published here. NELP to USDA: Faster Poultry-Processing Line Speeds During COVID-19 Pandemic ‘Irresponsible and Reckless’ Washington — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service in April approved 15 poultry processing plants’ requests to increase line speeds 25% – despite [...]

Katrina-Meyer2020-06-22T09:13:34-04:00June 22nd, 2020|Coronavirus Pandemic, COVID19, Food Integrity, In The News|

Food & Water Watch: North Carolina ‘Anti-Sunshine’ Law Struck Down as Unconstitutional

Note: this article, featuring Government Accountability Project and the Food Integrity Campaign, was originally published here. North Carolina ‘Anti-Sunshine’ Law Struck Down as Unconstitutional Wide-ranging coalition challenges law on first amendment, equal protection, and due process grounds. Late Friday, a federal judge struck down as unconstitutional a North Carolina law designed to inhibit undercover investigations [...]

Katrina-Meyer2020-06-18T09:19:17-04:00June 18th, 2020|First Amendment, Food Integrity, Gag lawsuits, In The News|

Food Safety News: North Carolina’s Property Protection Act Violates 1st Amendment

Note: this article, featuring Government Accountability Project and the Food Integrity Campaign, was originally published here. North Carolina’s Property Protection Act Violates 1st Amendment North Carolina’s 5-year-old Property Protection Act, the first state law to use civil action rather than criminal law, to discourage undercover animal welfare investigations, contains unconstitutional elements. Chief Judge Thomas D. [...]

Katrina-Meyer2020-06-16T10:35:00-04:00June 16th, 2020|1st Amendment, Food Integrity, In The News|

Empty Shelves, Culled Animals: COVID-19 Intersects with Decades of Industrialized Agriculture

Empty Shelves, Culled Animals: COVID-19 Intersects with Decades of Industrialized Agriculture For decades, whistleblowers have told us that it is dangerous when Big Ag puts profits over people. Companies such as Tyson, JBS, and Smithfield, which have historically bulldozed independent businesses to gain control of our meat supply, have built fragile global supply chains in [...]

Gabrielle.Simeck2020-05-18T12:27:24-04:00May 18th, 2020|Blog, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Pandemic, Coronavirus Whistleblowers, COVID19, Food Integrity, Public Health, Whistleblower Rights|

Press Release: Food Integrity Campaign Petition to Protect Meat Inspectors During COVID-19 Garners Thousands of Signatures

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 8, 2020 Food Integrity Campaign Petition to Protect Meat Inspectors During COVID-19 Garners Thousands of Signatures Petition Launch Follows Thousands of COVID-19 cases in Meat Industry WASHINGTON – This week, the Government Accountability Project’s Food Integrity Campaign launched a petition to expand and strengthen protections for essential workers employed within the meat industry. Meat industry [...]

Gabrielle.Simeck2020-05-13T12:22:29-04:00May 8th, 2020|Coronavirus, Coronavirus Pandemic, Coronavirus Whistleblowers, COVID19, Food Integrity, Press release, Whistleblower Rights|

Press Statement: Trump Administration Issues Executive Order Keeping Meat Plants Open Amidst Pandemic

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 30, 2020 Trump Administration Issues Executive Order Keeping Meat Plants Open Amidst Pandemic WASHINGTON – President Trump announced on Tuesday that he intended to order meat plants to stay open by declaring them essential infrastructure under the Defense Production Act. This order comes after more than 6,000 meat workers have tested positive and 20 have died of COVID-19. Across the country, plants have been closing in [...]

Gabrielle.Simeck2020-04-30T11:32:45-04:00April 30th, 2020|Coronavirus, Coronavirus Pandemic, Coronavirus Whistleblowers, COVID19, Food Integrity, Press, Press release, Whistleblower Rights|

Courier Journal: Kentucky Slaughterhouses Battle the Coronavirus’s Spread Amid Fears of Meat Shortage

Note: this article, featuring Government Accountability Project and the Food Integrity Campaign, was originally published here. Kentucky Slaughterhouses Battle the Coronavirus’s Spread Amid Fears of Meat Shortage Major meat processors across the country have continued to battle coronavirus hotspots in their plants — including in Kentucky. Two Western Kentucky poultry plants, each the largest employer [...]

Katrina-Meyer2020-04-29T08:41:24-04:00April 29th, 2020|Coronavirus Pandemic, COVID19, Food Integrity, In The News|

Bloomberg Law: USDA OKs Record Number of Poultry Line-Speed Waivers in April

Note: this article, featuring Government Accountability Project and the Food Integrity Campaign, was originally published here. USDA OKs Record Number of Poultry Line-Speed Waivers in April The federal government in April approved a record number of line-speed waivers for poultry slaughterhouses—the most ever in a single month—as the Covid-19 public health crisis makes it harder for customers [...]

Katrina-Meyer2020-04-24T11:47:28-04:00April 24th, 2020|Food Integrity, In The News|

When We Talk About Animals: Amanda Hitt on Why the Animal Agriculture Industry Needs Whistleblowers

Note: this podcast, featuring our Food Integrity Campaign Director Amanda Hitt, was originally published here. Amanda Hitt on Why the Animal Agriculture Industry Needs Whistleblowers In an age where almost everything we eat is produced outside of public view, whistleblowers are critical to maintaining the integrity of our food systems. These principled insiders are often the [...]

Katrina-Meyer2020-03-11T09:06:18-04:00March 11th, 2020|Food Integrity, In The News|

Totally Vegan Buzz: USDA Sued for Increasing Slaughterhouse Kill Speeds to 175 Chickens Per Minute

Note: this article, featuring Government Accountability Project and the Food Integrity Campaign, was originally published here. USDA Sued for Increasing Slaughterhouse Kill Speeds to 175 Chickens Per Minute A coalition of animal welfare groups has filed a lawsuit against the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for increasing the killing ‘speed limit’ in chickens slaughterhouses [...]

Katrina-Meyer2020-03-06T10:07:37-05:00March 6th, 2020|Food Integrity, In The News|