Tyson shareholders want reform: The SEC has released voting breakdowns for proposals considered last week at Tyson’s annual shareholder meeting. Although proposals to reform the company’s stock structure and issue a human rights report were overwhelmingly favored by independent investors (by 85 and 75 percent, respectively), both were defeated because the voting power is controlled by the Tyson family. (SEC, FERN’s Ag Insider)
Coalition protests Oregon mega-dairy: Environmental groups are calling on Oregon regulators to deny a permit for a 30,000-cow mega-dairy in Boardman amid fraud allegations against the dairy’s owners. (Stand Up to Factory Farms)
Food runs short: The unusually severe winter storm that hit Texas with “freezing temperatures and power outages [that] are disrupting the food supply chain” has left the state’s grocery shelves empty. (Texas Tribune)
Food, packaging safe: “There is no credible evidence” that food or food packaging is a source of coronavirus infections, said the FDA and USDA. (FDA)
‘Sturgeon general’ arrested: The sturgeon specialist at the Wisconsin DNR was arrested and charged with being part of a group of game wardens who collected caviar from fishermen for “research purposes” but then consumed thousands of dollars’ worth of the highly regulated fish eggs. (Washington Post)