217 Today: Pork producers resist attempts to change the way they raise pigs

217 Today: Pork producers resist attempts to change the way they raise pigs

ByFarrah Anderson

Monday, April 25, 2022 Today’s headlines: The National Science Foundation has given two groups of University of Illinois researchers awards totaling more than $40 million. The Autism Program at the University of Illinois continues to provide an online summer camp for prospective students with autism. Champaign-Urbana residents cheered as artist Langston Allston cut a ceremonial…

Pork producers are taking a gamble to get more money for lobbying and lawsuits

Pork producers are taking a gamble to get more money for lobbying and lawsuits

ByHarvest Public Media

Looking for ways to fund lobbying and legal efforts to preserve their way of business, pork producers are turning down guaranteed money that could go to advertising and marketing. Pork producers are feeling threatened by attempts to change the way they raise pigs. So much so that they made the surprising move of reducing the…