The world's biggest meatpacker, JBS, claimed in its adverts: "Bacon, chicken wings and steak with net-zero emissions. It’s possible." But it never seemed to have a plan to make this happen. So now it's paying $1.1 million to settle a false advertising case newrepublic.com/article/2028...

The battle over MAHA food policy is growing. Advocacy group @ewgofficial.bsky.social opposes new GOP food ingredient disclosure bill as not strong enough, while industry-backed Americans for Ingredient Transparency seeks to preempt state level action civileats.com/2025/11/06/s...

Trump's decimation of the FDA has resulted in plunging inspections of foreign food imports, ProPublica finds “It’s only a matter of time before people die,” one expert said

Leading Brazilian food industry group that includes Nestle and Cargill pledges to increase recycling ahead of COP30 global climate talks Environmentalists tell @reporterbrasil.org.br that recycling can't fix plastic pollution because much of the waste isn't recyclable

Federal inspection reports show that salmonella is widespread in grocery store chicken and turkey products - and the govt has no authority to act aside from noting violations. In April the Trump administration withdrew a rule that would have empowered the USDA to remove salmonella-tainted poultry

Indiana University admin backs down, allows actual news in the student newspaper. Editors: "We do intend to keep administrators to their word. Thus far, that’s been hard to trust." www.idsnews.com/article/2025... 1/2

Mexico's Congress approves a new budget that includes one of the world's most ambitious health taxes The health tax covers sugary beverages, tobacco, violent video games & more, and its proceeds will go towards addressing the health costs resulting from these products

Democratic AGs from 25 states are suing the Trump administration for refusing to use USDA contingency funds to cover food stamps during the shutdown Via @civileats.com

The Peruvian region of Ica exports blueberries and other fruits to the US, Europe and across the world But big agroexporters are depleting groundwater so fast that small farmers can't operate and the whole system can't be sustained, @saludconlupa.com reports

Coca-Cola's Caravans - large Christmas parades that market Coke - left cities across Mexico to pay the bill for security, logistics and more New report from @kenniav.bsky.social comes as Mexico weighs higher taxes on sugary beverages to cover growing cost of diet-related disease

Lord Strathcarron, a UK lawmaker who tried to block an anti-tobacco bill, discussed the legislation with a family member who is “very high up” at British American Tobacco Extremely British tobacco machinations uncovered by @mattchapman.bsky.social

Amid a resurgence in bird flu, the egg industry is urging the Trump administration to move quickly to vaccinate its flocks Earlier this year, RFK Jr cancelled a grant of more than $500m for Moderna to develop bird flu vaccines using mRNA technology

Telehealth company Ro creates a scale for "food noise," defined as incessant or debilitating thoughts about food The scale will be used to assess the effectiveness of treatments, but critics say its inventing a diagnosis to sell more GLP-1s

Governments in 21 countries have sued the tobacco industry for the health costs of smoking - and only two have seen any money New story from @maria-perez.bsky.social breaks down how the tobacco industry has avoided paying up

Nearly seven million farmed birds have died in the US since September as a result of a bird flu resurgence That includes 1.3 million turkeys, threatening the turkey supply ahead of Thanksgiving

The soda industry backed a campaign to turn MAGA against MAHA, including on state-level initiatives where MAHA has had more success “President Trump literally has a Diet Coke button in his Oval Office,” one MAGA influencer who was paid by an industry group posted

"An AP investigation found that the wave of legislation has cropped up in most states, pushed by people with close ties to HHS Secretary RFK, Jr. The effort would strip away protections that have been built over a century and are integral to American lives and society."

wild that the chocolate and the rubber industries are begging the EU to implement its long-delayed deforestation standards www.ft.com/content/7593...

New dietary guidelines for Americans are likely to reflect MAHA efforts to embrace saturated fat “The science is actually pretty clear" that saturated fats are bad for you and contribute to heart disease, an expert tells WSJ

A lot of news from Gloster, the Mississippi town where some residents say emissions from a wood pellet plant owned by UK energy giant Drax are making them sick. Last week, the state reversed an earlier decision and will now allow Drax to become a "major source" of hazardous air pollution

Key takeaway from this historical look at how UPFs took over America's food supply: It wasn't one thing - like the tobacco industry buying Big Food - but a century of economic and social changes, expertly seized on by giant companies pushing us toward packaged foods

California's crackdown on ultraprocessed foods in schools borrows from several countries Like Brazil, it singles out UPFs. But like Chile, Mexico & others, it focuses on cutting out junk foods rather than reducing processing overall My analysis for @theexamination.org newsletter

Supporters of Indonesia's president create a cyber team to counter "disinformation, slander, and hatred" about his flagship program for free nutritious school meals The program faced controversy after thousands of children were food poisoned, supporters say some claims are false and malicious

A surge in food prices is driving child malnutrition in northern Nigeria to crisis levels Food prices in Nigeria increased 21% from 2024 to 2025, after an earlier report found that Nigerians were already spending a staggering 59% of their income on food, the highest rate in the world

Trump's shutdown firings hit the CDC team behind the country's key survey on public health and nutrition "It will be very, very difficult for the survey to continue with this group gone," a former CDC official tells @statnews.com

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

A food industry group sues to overturn West Virginia's ban on certain food dyes and additives, saying it usurps the power of the FDA and has no scientific grounding The case is worth watching because the most concrete actions on food additives are all at the state level

Remarkable admission in an obscure Labor Dept filing: Trump's immigration crackdown is threatening “the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers”

Columbia's Knight Institute won a landmark free speech ruling defending a campus activist targeted by ICE - while the university cut a deal with the administration “In some ways, it’s rescued Columbia’s reputation," a former ACLU director says of the Knight Institute

Some exciting news: 404 Media just won a grant via Muckrock to investigate book bans and educational censorship in the U.S. The plan is to file hundreds of public records requests around the country and to report on and archive all the documents for public use: www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

This violates FTC guidelines requiring "clear and conspicuous disclosures" of sponsors in paid social media messages When @theexamination.org reported with WaPo about registered dietitians who posted paid promotions without naming their sponsors, the FTC sent them warning letters

A new law moves California to the forefront of state action on UPFs The policy will phase out "UPFs of concern" based on "addictive potential, scientific evidence of their health risks and existing bans, restrictions or warning labels in other states or countries"

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

This is why we started @theexamination.org, an investigative newsroom that holds powerful actors accountable for the world's leading causes of death Our core beats are Big Food (linked to #1 killer), Big Tobacco (linked to #2) and Industrial Pollution (linked to #2, #5 & more)

Good @civileats.com rundown of industry ties in Trump's food policy leadership. Among them: - Undersecretary for Food Safety nominee described by Congress as "meat industry's go to fixer" - Food Safety Inspection Service administrator helped w controversial "climate-friendly beef" label at Tyson

JBS Aves, the poultry division of meat giant JBS, was excluded from Brazil's newest "Dirty List" for slave labor despite an inspection finding modern slavery conditions in its supply chain The Labor Minister personally intervened to keep the company off the list

“We were heard" - CEO of pesticide trade group CropLife America praises last month's MAHA report Language criticizing the health effects of pesticides in an earlier MAHA report was eliminated after a lobbying blitz

Niche brands selling higher-end, more specialized products are beating out Big Food These "insurgent brands" make up less than 2% of products but drove almost 39% of category gains in 2024, WSJ reports, while Big Food's market share erodes

Brazil's Justice Department orders JBS Aves, the poultry division of the world's biggest meat producer, to take 17 actions to ensure its supply chain is free of forced labor An inspection found forced labor at a JBS Aves supplier last December, @reporterbrasil.org.br is on top of the story

Nicotine-infused energy drinks are marketing themselves as "clean fuel" to customers seeking better cognitive performance Welcome to 2025, everyone

Since they’ve cut food inspections at the FDA, the burden is now more on consumers to protect ourselves from contaminated food: www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

Walmart is getting rid of synthetic dyes and cutting 30 ingredients from preservatives to artificial sweeteners from store brand foods by January 2027, changes likely to ripple through the US food supply chain “The customer is just getting louder and louder on this,” a Walmart VP tells WSJ

The real-life impact of Trump and Musk’s freeze on USAID Drugs and food, intended for global aid, instead languished and rotted in warehouses — and some children withered and died. Sweeping, damning investigation by my @washingtonpost.com colleagues.

The CDC made reporting listeria optional. Listeria in ready-to-eat pasta has killed four and hospitalized 19.

One policy that California and Texas have in common: cracking down on ultraprocessed foods At least 30 states across partisan lines have passed or are considering limits on chemicals in food or food packaging, advocates tell @kffhealthnews.org

The contractor that provided more than 600k kilos of chicken blood to government soup kitchens in Lima, Peru had no sanitary license and operated in filthy conditions Soup kitchen leaders said the product smelled like dead dogs, finds a stomach-turning investigation from @saludconlupa.com

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins suggests at an agriculture industry forum that the upcoming Dietary Guidelines for Americans will "boost demand for U.S. beef and whole milk" Officially, they are being revamped to remove industry influence and give Americans unbiased nutrition advice

At least nine auditors in Brazil's Labor Ministry jointly resigned in protest of Labor Minister's personal intercession to keep JBS - the world's largest meat producer - off the "Dirty List" for forced labor and modern day slavery

After demanding that health systems be revamped to tackle chronic disease, RFK Jr rejects a global declaration calling for the same. He offered few details and the objections he did make - on gender & abortion - aren't even mentioned in the text @foodfixco.bsky.social digs in