by Beef News | Aug 21, 2025 | Health, Business, Culture
“U.S. beef producers need to stop whining and just lower prices.” That’s not analysis—it’s exactly the kind of ignorance the meatpackers count on. But behind every overpriced steak is a rigged cartel—and behind every bankrupt ranch is a family trying to survive a...
by Beef News | Aug 19, 2025 | Business, Health, Pharma
While headlines obsess over “reptile venom” conspiracies and viral Ozempic side-effect lawsuits, the real policy bomb sits quietly in Congress. The Treat and Reduce Obesity Act—known as TROA—would for the first time allow Medicare to cover weight-loss drugs like...
by Beef News | Aug 16, 2025 | Farm Policy, Health
On August 15, in McAllen, TX, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins unveiled a “sweeping plan” to stop the New World Screwworm (NWS) from crossing into Texas — headlined by a $750 million sterile-fly plant in Edinburg capable of producing 300 million flies/week....
by Beef News | Aug 8, 2025 | Health, Technology
Republished from The HighwireWritten by Steven Middendorp President Donald Trump and cabinet members announced plans for a Health Technology Ecosystem overseen by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The ecosystem was listed on...
by Beef News | Jul 27, 2025 | Health, Policy, Science
Biotech’s next phase won’t look like Monsanto—it’ll look like software updates sprayed onto crops. On July 1, 2025, Flagship Pioneering—the same venture firm that birthed Moderna—unveiled Terrana Biosciences, a $50 million RNA agriculture startup promising “real-time...
by Beef News | Jul 25, 2025 | Health, Farm Policy, Policy
The fix is in. And they’re hoping you don’t notice. On July 23, 2025, the House Appropriations Committee quietly advanced two of the most industry-serving provisions in recent memory: Section 453, which would grant lawsuit immunity to pesticide manufacturers, and...
