Most people don’t know the law firm Shook, Hardy & Bacon. But if you’re a multinational corporation with a history of harming people, Shook Hardy is the go-to law shop. The firm has guided tobacco and chemical corporations through cancer
The VT Agency of Agriculture’s conflicting – and confounding – dual roles of promoting and regulating the dairy industry remains at the heart of the state’s inability to move on from a destructive industrial dairy model. Time after time, the
One of Ben & Jerry’s largest “Caring Dairy” farms was recently caught fudging its cow numbers to avoid state regulations, according to records obtained by Regeneration Vermont. For more than 18 months,
A Regeneration Vermont (RegenVT) investigation has discovered that a farm owned by the vice president of the St. Albans Cooperative Creamery, the suppliers for Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, allegedly violated water quality laws by releasing manure runoff into the
Vermont’s Agency of Agriculture took what some legislators are calling “a sneaky route” in its attempts to eliminate the pesticide-usage progress reports that are required to be filed annually by the state’s Pesticide Advisory Council (VPAC). Tucked deep in an
The Vermont Agency of Agriculture is seeking to limit access to pesticide usage data, thus threatening both the public’s right to know and the Vermont Pesticide Advisory Council’s (VPAC) ability to act. It’s urgent that Vermonters contact their legislators now
[The following are excerpts from John Dillon's full report on Vermont Public Radio about a federal court's ruling against Ben & Jerry's, allowing the consumer deception suit against them to move forward.] A court has refused to dismiss legal claims
Victory! A federal court has ruled in favor of consumer and environmental advocates claiming that Ben & Jerry’s is deceiving consumers about the quality of its products and treatment of dairy cows. Specifically, the Superior Court of the District of
Regeneration Vermont’s Michael Colby recently spent an hour with Steve Judge and Alyssa Hartman of “The New Dairy Show” discussing – you guessed it – Vermont’s dairy crisis. The discussion provides a good summary of the investigative work of RegenVt,
Our latest deep dive into the impacts of Vermont’s large-farm dairies focused on the extensive use of antibiotics within these confinement operations, and the Ag Agency’s “look away” approach to addressing the threat of on-farm pharmaceutical overuse, which gives rise
