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Josh talks with Sharon Treat about the troubling food safety aspects of the latest UK government white paper on Brexit and how it may affect trade with the U.S. and Europe. 
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Dr. Steve Suppan
New agricultural technologies present new challenges for assessing risks and tailoring risk management measures for those technologies. However, governments, particularly those that have invested taxpayer money to develop the technologies, may not adapt to meet those challenges. The U.S. and EU are taking very different approaches to that task.
Corn field harvest
Josh and Steve Suppan talk about the $12 billion aid package to farmers who have been affected by tariff retaliation.
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Ben Lilliston
Food companies have a long history of keeping consumers in dark about the origins of their food. But outright deception is another level of darkness. There are strong signs that global meat companies are taking advantage of a loophole to label imported beef, particularly grass-fed, as “Product of U.S.A.”
Grass fed beef
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Ben Lilliston
August 2, 2018  U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)  Docket ID: FSIS-2018-0024 - https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=FSIS-2018-0024 
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Sharon Anglin Treat
Brexit presents a number of significant risks to the future of sustainable food and agriculture in the UK, the EU and around the world. Until now, those risks have been speculative. But recent actions by the UK government have raised the stakes and presented five significant risks as a result of Brexit.
Brexit
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Tara Ritter
This blog overviews the 2018 Winona County Energy Dialogue.
Winona Rural Dialogue
In our recent report Emissions Impossible: How big meat and dairy are heating up the planet, we teamed up with GRAIN to analyze the greenhouse gas footprints of the largest meat and dairy corporations, and debunked the idea that decreasing emissions intensity would, by itself, lead to an overall reduction in emissions.
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