Reading Time: 2 minutes Indian police used tear gas and pepper spray against dozens of farmers who began marching from Punjab state along a key highway to Delhi on Friday to demand better prices for their crops.
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Police prevent Indian Punjabi farmers marching to Delhi to demand better prices
World food prices reach 19-month high in November, UN says
Reading Time: < 1 minute The United Nations' world food price index rose in November to its highest level since April 2023, recording its biggest gain in 19 months on the back of surging vegetable oil prices, data showed on Friday.
Mexico’s Bimbo files $1.4 billion lawsuit against Maple Leaf Foods
Reading Time: < 1 minute Mexico's Grupo Bimbo has filed a lawsuit against Maple Leaf Foods and former senior executives of the Canadian company, it said on Friday, seeking more than 2 billion Canadian dollars in damages.
US farm groups want Trump to spare their workers from deportation
Reading Time: 4 minutes U.S. farm industry groups want President-elect Donald Trump to spare their sector from his promise of mass deportations, which could upend a food supply chain heavily dependent on immigrants in the United States illegally.
Thousands of British farmers protest against ‘tractor tax’ on inheritance
Reading Time: 2 minutes Thousands of farmers protested at Britain's parliament on Tuesday, some driving tractors through central London, to demand the scrapping of an inheritance tax that they say will destroy family farms and threaten food production.
Modi’s inflation-blowing farm pivot may not be enough to win key Indian state
Reading Time: 2 minutes Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken several pro-farmer but inflation-stoking measures in recent months, such as easing curbs on rice and onion exports, but that may not prove enough for him to sway an election on Wednesday in a key state.
Nestle plays down RFK Jr’s anti-packaged food rhetoric
Reading Time: 2 minutes Nestle on Tuesday sought to play down any differences with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has been critical of packaged foods, saying it shared the next U.S. health agency chief's desire to improve agricultural practices and nutrition.
Carrots linked to one US death, 39 cases of illness from E. coli, CDC says
Recalled carrots were also shipped to stores in Canada says USDA
Reading Time: < 1 minute One person has died and at least 39 others made ill by E. coli infections linked to fresh carrots sold by several large grocery retailers in 18 states, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Sunday.
UK retail industry plays down threat to food supplies from possible farmer strikes
Reading Time: < 1 minute Britain's retail industry on Monday played down the likelihood of possible farmer strikes over the government's inheritance tax measure impacting food availability, saying the nation's food retailers are adept at dealing with disruption.
Brazil’s JBS sees strong demand for meat in US
Reading Time: < 1 minute Brazil's JBS, the world's largest meatpacker, sees "very strong" demand for beef, pork and chicken in the U.S., said the president of JBS USA, Wesley Batista Filho on Thursday during the firm's third quarter earnings call.