Labels are Confusing Consumers About Contents of “Meatless Meat”

The fact that so many consumers look at these labels and think that the products include meat or other animal by-products is a clear sign that the misleading labeling and deceptive marketing practices of plant-based fake meat companies has caused real consumer confusion.

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Rarrr…a sequester monster

*Blog shared from Corn Commentary by Cindy. The impending deadline for “sequestration” has taken on the character of a looming cataclysmic event or awakening of a sleeping monster in a horror movie – a monster with an axe aimed at all government spending. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack called sequester one of the “man-made” risks facing […]

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Water issues, on the ranch and across the country

This week, the exciting Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show is going on in Tampa, Florida and I know many cattlemen and women who are attending. One of those is my uncle, Mark Frasier, who is the President of the Colorado Livestock Association and I’ll brag on him for a minute. 🙂 He took […]

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Three rights of our safe, affordable and abundant food supply

This is Part 2 of 3 of “Making safe, affordable and abundant food a global reality”, Jeff Simmons and Dr. Chris Ashworth from Elanco. Read more at PlentyToThinkAbout.org. In the Part 1 blog post, Simmons summed up that the role of technology in developing safe, affordable and abundant food enables three rights: food, choice, sustainability. […]

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Are you ready to Vote 4 Ag?

Tomorrow I will be voting for my values and for agriculture. Are you ready to vote? I haven’t found any sources better than the National Corn Growers Association’s nonpartisan survey responses submitted by President Obama and Governor Romney. The information provided by both candidates is meant to help interested voters gain information on the issues […]

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Wrap it up and move on | 2011 & 2012

As we wrap up 2011 and look what may happen in agriculture in 2012, I wanted to share a few excerpts I read on Corn & Soybean Digest online by David Kohl and Kent Thiesse. 2011 Year in Review by Kohl: Interconnectedness and convergence In the early part of 2011, it appeared that the U.S. […]

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Consistency in Beef

Part 9: I find this beef innovation particularly interesting and important – mostly because I enjoy a great, juicy steak and am glad I can rely on the grading system of beef to provide that! From the beginning, beef was more about protein than pleasure and used as draft animals or for milk until they […]

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“Renewable energy” (aka ethanol) and the beef with the livestock industry

In doing research for my job the other day, I came across the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s 2010 Policy Issues. Their top five issues for 2010 are: Death Tax NCBA supports a dual-track policy to: 1) increase the exemption level and decrease the rate of taxation; and 2) provide an overall exemption for agriculture. Antibiotics […]

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