Published: May 26, 2022 Last Updated: May 14, 2025
A look at the news headlines you might have missed this month. This section is intended as a service to highlight some headlines you might have missed. It gives you a short summary of it. If it interests you, you can then click to the headline and read the entire story.
Headlines Involving Meat Supply
SECOND AVIAN INFLUENZA CASE FOUND IN WISCONSIN
Wisconsin ‘finds’ another case of Bird Flu (even after culling 3 million birds since March 14)
Source: https://brownfieldagnews.com/news/second-avian-influenza-case-found-in-wisconsin/
Tags: birdflu, chicken, shortage
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MINNESOTA BANS POULTRY SALES AND EXHIBITIONS AS HIGH-PATH AVIAN FLU CONTINUES TO SPREAD
Minnesota BANS live Trade of poultry, joining Georgia, Arkansas in #BirdFlu emergency rules.
Tags: usa, birdflu, chicken, poultry, poultry shortage, minnesota
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US: Egg prices up 52% after #BirdFlu affects supply -11 million chickens and two million turkeys have died this year
Tags: egg prices, layers culled, birdflu, layer shortage, price increase, turkey shortage, autumn food scarcity,
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AMISH FARMER FACES $250K FINE, JAIL TIME AND LOSING HIS SUSTAINABLE FARM FOR PROCESSING HIS OWN MEAT.
Around 4000 customers of his private, members-only, food buying club are impacted by these actions.
Tags: amish, farmer, persecution, meat, meat processing, meat shortage, injustice, food lawfare
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AUSTRALIA: JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS DETECTED IN 30 NSW PIGGERIES, PORK SUPPLY SET TO PLUNGE
Experts say Japanese encephalitis will impact pork supply as infected piggeries experience production losses of up to 80 per cent.
Tags: australian pork, japanese encephalitis, 80 percent culled, new south wales, pork shortages
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ITALY: AFRICAN SWINE FEVER PROMPTS CULLING OF 2.1 MILLION BOAR, EXPORT BANS
The European Union on Monday told Italy to establish an infected zone for African swine fever in areas of Rome and implement special control measures to stop it spreading. The Coldiretti farm group said some 2.1 million boar needed to be culled in Italy as “a real risk to public safety”. (ANSA).
Tags: African swine flu, italy, wild boar, pigs, pork shortages
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COWS MAY NEED PERMIT TO GRAZE MEADOWS IN NETHERLANDS
Dairy farmers are angry and surprised now that a court decision opens the door to a permit requirement to let cows roam in the meadow. “This shows the absurdity of the nitrogen policy,” says Trienke Elshof, a farmer in Oldetrijne.
Tags: beef supply, feed supply, grazing tax, persecution of farmers, climate crisis, food supply, food shortages
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NETHERLANDS FARMERS UP IN ARMS OVER POSSIBLE ‘PASTURE PERMIT’ FOR COWS
Farmers fear permits to put their cows to pasture following a court case brought by environment activist Johan Vollenbroek in Overijssel, who wants the impact of cow urine and manure outdoors to be included in pollution calculations.
Tags: beef supply, netherlands, environmental activists, climate crisis, cow urine pollution, cow manure pollution
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Finance and Food Headlines
BEZOS EARTH FUND PLEDGES $17M TO COLOMBIA’S FUTURE SEEDS PLANT GENE BANK
The Bezos Earth Fund will invest $17 million in global food security-focused research partnership CGIAR‘s Future Seeds plant gene bank. The gene bank was inaugurated this week in Colombia to preserve plant biodiversity and support agricultural research.
Source: https://agfundernews.com/plant-gene-bank-bezos-earth-fund-pledges-17m-to-colombias-future-seeds
Tags: seeds, bezos, seedbank, funding, futureseeds, plant genes, columbia, research, bezos earth fund
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CALIFORNIA WANTS TO PAY FARMERS TO NOT FARM THIS YEAR
This year, California farmers have been given a financial incentive to not plant crops. Much of the state is already experiencing extreme drought conditions. As part of a $2.9-billion plan to try to keep water flowing in California rivers, the state will pay farms to keep thousands of acres vacant this growing season.
Source: https://modernfarmer.com/2022/03/california-drought-pay-farmers/
Tags: california, water, food, shortage, drought, paid not to grow, money, financial incentives
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IF MONEY IS SPEECH, CBDCS SHOULD BE TOOLS FOR FREEDOM
There is no constitutional right guaranteeing that you can spend your money as you please.
“Should people be encouraged to eat the foods decided best for them, such as a plant or insect-based diet? CBDCs could do the trick. Should people be limited in how much they can spend per week on carbon-intensive purchases? CBDCs could help with that too,” N.S. Lyons, author of The Upheaval Substack, wrote last week in conservative-leaning digital mag City Journal.
Source: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/if-money-is-speech-cbdcs-should-be-tools-for-freedom
Tags: cbdc, central bank digital currency, control buying ability, insect-based food, plant-based food, population control, food credits
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SOARING BREAD PRICES SPARK PROTESTS AND SHOP FIRES IN IRAN, IRNA REPORTS
Soaring bread prices have triggered protests in Iran in which some shops were set on fire, prompting police to arrest scores of “provocateurs”. Shops burned down.
Tags: iran, bread shortage, arab spring, egypt, poverty, digital food coupons, inflation, protests
