Farm & Food File
A syndicated column by Alan Guebert
Food Labeling
The Other Red Meat
Posted on August 25, 2013
A lean hog is not a fat chicken but the marketing geniuses hired by the National Pork Board sure sold a lotta’ hams, bacons and butts when, in 1987, they began to promote pork as “The Other White Meat.”
Now, 25 years after that brilliant slight of hand, the pork crowd wants to be known as […]
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January 22, 2021 at 4:47pm
AFBF swears by *sound science* & yet all the science behind this study, acc’ing to Reuters, is *...a four-month review by 10 of its farmer members...* The problem here isn’t NASS reports or USDA, it’s AFBF. https://t.co/co35NMHxGd
AFBF swears by *sound science* & yet all the science behind this study, acc’ing to Reuters, is *...a four-month review by 10 of its farmer members...* The problem here isn’t NASS reports or USDA, it’s AFBF. https://t.co/co35NMHxGd
January 22, 2021 at 8:25am
Great thread: Why ethanol-waivers or not, Supreme Court or not, green deal or not-will not make a comeback. https://t.co/Ul3tIkvuoq
Great thread: Why ethanol-waivers or not, Supreme Court or not, green deal or not-will not make a comeback. https://t.co/Ul3tIkvuoq
January 21, 2021 at 6:51am
The openness of the stinking campaign sewer in ag is almost more troubling than the sewer itself. It’s an in-your-face pay to play scheme that delivers public goods to private players & is both shameless and shameful at the same time. Nice trick, Kim. https://t.co/c2Y590b04e
The openness of the stinking campaign sewer in ag is almost more troubling than the sewer itself. It’s an in-your-face pay to play scheme that delivers public goods to private players & is both shameless and shameful at the same time. Nice trick, Kim. https://t.co/c2Y590b04e
December 30, 2020 at 12:48pm
The US isn’t the only democratic nation where the ill-intentioned make nation-altering change too quickly for the benefit of a politically privileged few. Brexit is a fool’s errand & UK farmers will soon be the first to learn that lesson. https://t.co/Ri8bev4wmi
The US isn’t the only democratic nation where the ill-intentioned make nation-altering change too quickly for the benefit of a politically privileged few. Brexit is a fool’s errand & UK farmers will soon be the first to learn that lesson. https://t.co/Ri8bev4wmi
December 29, 2020 at 6:56pm
Climate change, monopolistic practices & fair competition are neither right wing nor left wing. They’re mainstream and every farmer knows it. The problem is too few rely on science & law and too many rely on politics & gov’t subsidies. https://t.co/BHDE4KQ2Vc
Climate change, monopolistic practices & fair competition are neither right wing nor left wing. They’re mainstream and every farmer knows it. The problem is too few rely on science & law and too many rely on politics & gov’t subsidies. https://t.co/BHDE4KQ2Vc