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Big Mac vs. Big Beef in legal showdown

The fast-food giant is suing Tyson Foods, Cargill, JBS and National Beef for allegedly driving up the cost of beef

Salon

McDonald's sues Tyson for "price-fixing"

The chain accused the companies of anticompetitive measures, such as collectively limiting supply, to boost prices

Salon

The price of your cheeseburger is being threatened by Big Meat, alleges McDonald’s

McDonald’s accuses all the major meat processing giants of colluding to choke the beef supply and drive up prices.

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McDonald's Sues Meat Suppliers Claiming Price Fixing Has Inflated Costs

The fast food giant wants unspecified damages from Cargill, JBS, Tyson Foods and National Beef Packing, as well a court order against the alleged conspiracy.

International Business Times

The real issue at the heart of Canada’s meat processing industry isn’t labour shortages — it’s low wages

A United Nations special rapporteur recently released a damning report describing Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker program as a “breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery.” The report detailed the many ways migrant workers have been mistreated in Canada, including excessive work hours, limited breaks and physical abuse.

The Conversation

More than 16,000 pounds of ground beef sold at Walmart recalled over E. coli risk

Cargill says that, out "of an abundance of caution," it is recalling several of its ground beef products produced in late April and sold at Walmart locations across the eastern U.S.

WEKU

In the Texas Panhandle, a nonprofit is fighting rural child care deserts

The Amarillo Area Foundation is funding new day care facilities in Friona and Claude after the towns found that a shortage of child care is making it harder to fill job openings.

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UK faces chocolate shortage this Christmas as workers vote to strike

'The spectre of Christmas without this beloved yuletide treat would be devastating', said a representative of the GMB union

Evening Standard

Fears of Ferrero Rocher shortage at Christmas as chocolate factory workers vote to strike

‘The spectre of Christmas without this beloved yuletide treat would be devastating,’ says union

The Independent UK

Middle East Conflict Threatens Israeli Agriculture Giants’ Operations

Tensions between Israel and Hamas put Bayer, Deere, and Cargill investments at risk

Zenger

Top grain traders ‘helped scupper’ ban on soya from deforested land

Cargill and ADM led push to weaken new protections for threatened ecosystems in South America, report says

The Guardian - UK

New technology uses good old-fashioned wind to power giant cargo vessels

Cargo ships equipped with massive rigid sails called WindWings could save a substantial amount of fuel, considering how much of the world's goods are transported by sea.

WEKU

Wind-powered cargo ship takes maiden voyage

A cargo ship that has been fitted with giant, rigid sails designed to cut the vessel’s carbon emissions set out on its maiden voyage from Singapore this week. The Pyxis Ocean was chartered by the US commodities group Cargill, in an attempt to investigate how wind power could reduce energy…

The Week

Advocates sue federal government for failing to ban imports of cocoa harvested by children

Child welfare advocates have filed a federal lawsuit asking a judge to force the Biden administration to block imports of cocoa harvested by children in West Africa that ends up in America’s most popular chocolate desserts and candies

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Child Labor Violations Surge In U.S. As Companies Exploit Cheap Labor

Major companies implicated in employing underage workers in hazardous conditions, sparking concerns over weakened child labor laws.

Tribune News Service

Russia's refusal to renew grain passage agreement revives concern over food prices

Russia said Monday it would not renew an agreement to safeguard cargo passage on a crucial Black Sea shipping corridor that for months has helped stabilizes global food prices.

The Independent UK

Agribusiness giant Cargill not doing enough to fight deforestation, protect human rights, group says

A coalition of activist groups and researchers has released a report it hopes will increase pressure on agribusiness giant Cargill to do more to fight deforestation and human rights abuse

The Guardian - UK

Grain trader Cargill faces legal challenge in US over Brazilian soya supply chain

World’s biggest grain trader accused of ‘shoddy due diligence’ on deforestation and alleged rights violations

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Firm that hired kids to clean meat plants keeps losing work

The slaughterhouse cleaning company that was found to be employing more than 100 children to help sanitize dangerous razor-sharp cutting equipment has continued to lose contracts with the major meat producers since the investigation became public last fall

Barchart

Cocoa- A New Multi-Year High in the Soft Commodity

Over the past months, cotton, sugar, coffee, and frozen concentrated orange juice futures rose to the highest price in years, with FCOJ reaching a new record peak. Meanwhile, cocoa futures were the latest soft commodity to join the bullish party, moving above $3,000 per ton to the highest price since…

Tribune News Service

Cargill ends contract with meatpacking cleaning service that illegally hired minors

Cargill, one of the nation's largest beef producers, has cut ties with a Wisconsin-based janitorial service that employed underage workers in violation of federal labor law.

Reuters

Brazil prosecutors seek $2.5 billion in damages from alleged orange juice cartel

Giants of the orange juice trade in Brazil have become defendants in a class-action lawsuit seeking $2.5 billion in damages over an alleged scheme to fix prices between 1999 and 2006, a prosecutor told Reuters.

Reuters

In Africa's fields, a plan to pay fair wages for chocolate withers

Ivorian cocoa bean farmer Edouard Kouame Kouadio expects to die poor, despite rising demand for the raw material that feeds the world's insatiable appetite for chocolate.

Tribune News Service

Cargill to stop handling Russian grains for export as war in Ukraine continues

Minnesota-based agribusiness Cargill said it will stop exporting Russian grains sourced by the company by the middle of this summer.

Tribune News Service

New Cargill CEO on role in global food chain: 'Food can't be weaponized'

With a Texan drawl and his V-neck sweater zipped up, Cargill's new CEO might seem uncomfortable with the plaster of white snow and hoar-frosted trees behind him outside the windows of the pyramid-shaped executive offices on the Wayzata campus of the global grain giant.

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