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Bottemiller Evich writes, “JBS, the world’s largest meat packer, has left the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association in a surprise move that comes as the group began taking a harder line on concerns about market consolidation. “NCBA, the beef industry’s main lobbying operation in Washington, D.C., recently joined with an unusually broad range of farm and cattle producer groups to call for more transparency in the market and ask the Department of Justice to publicly report on its ongoing antitrust investigation. Sixteen members of Congress also wrote to DOJ this week seeking an update on the probe.” ....
The all-Republican Garfield County commissioners are joining agricultural groups and even some Democratic party members in trying to keep Ballot Initiative 16 off the 2022 state ballot. Commissioners on Monday unanimously approved a resolution opposing the “Protect Animals from Unnecessary Suffering and Exploitation,” or PAUSE Initiative. “You read that title and you go, well heavens, that’s common sense that we would want to do that,” Commissioner Mike Samson said in presenting the resolution to the board. “But then you read the actual initiative, and it’s ridiculous.” From redefining animal sexual abuse to apply to common cow-calf and other animal birthing practices used by ranchers, to establishing that livestock can’t go to market until reaching a certain age, “It’s just asinine, in my way of thinking,” Samson said. ....
The Garfield County Democratic Party has endorsed a bill making its way through the Colorado Legislature that would remove elected county commissioners from the statutorily required local public health board. But the three Republican county commissioners say they intend to continue serving in their roles on the Garfield County Board of Health. The health board takes advice from and gives direction to the county’s Department of Public Health, and decides certain policy matters, especially when it comes to spending. County-level health boards have become crucial during the past year in the COVID-19 pandemic response. Many, including those in neighboring Pitkin and Mesa counties, have relied heavily on medical experts and institutional representatives in helping to make those decisions, county Democrats pointed out in a recently issued press release. ....