BY FRED GRAY, NEWS-REVIEW STAFF WRITER EAST JORDAN - Greg Niewendorp of East Jordan, like growing numbers of small farmers across Northern Michigan and the rest of the nation, is challenging state and federal agencies and the big downstate cattle industry to back off their Big Brother policies and allow farmers like him to carry on with their way of life. BY FRED GRAY, NEWS-REVIEW STAFF WRITER EAST JORDAN - Greg Niewendorp of East Jordan, like growing numbers of small farmers across...

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Finally, large purchasers of meat fast food industry, grocery store chains, and yes, the USDA must require the meat industry to produce high quality, pathogen lessened, meat. A report in 2005 released by the CDC, in collaboration with the FDA and USDA, showed important declines in foodborne infections due to common bacterial pathogens. coli O157:H7 outbreak started with a few sick kids in Colorado and quickly spread coast-to-coast, eventually triggering the recall of over 19 million pounds...

The lawsuit, filed Thursday, appears to be the first legal salvo fired against United Food as debate over food safety continues to grow in the face of a 5.7 million-pound, 11-state recall of the tainted ground beef. United Food spokesman Lyle Orwig, in a prepared statement released Friday, said officials had not yet reviewed the suit but that the company "remains deeply sorry that any illnesses may have resulted from the recalled product. Testing at beef processing plants varies from...

It's no wonder that over that same period in the United States, small-scale, grass-based milk production for nearby markets essentially disappeared -- and that mass-scale, confinement dairy farming, reliant on corn, antibiotics, and hormones, took its place. And that means dairy farmers not only had fewer and fewer buyers for their product, but they also had to pay up to have their milk shipped to ever greater distances as nearby processing plants shut down. It's no wonder that over that...