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So What’s with the Politicos’ Burger Beef?

By NAMI On March 7, 2019 · Add Comment

By: Matt Raymond

There’s nothing like invoking Joseph Stalin to stoke a political debate, and it certainly has ignited a new round of partisan warfare, with battle lines that are drawn at your dinner table.

It all started with the Green New Deal, legislation by freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed [...]

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Fostering a Partnership Toward Appropriate Regulation of Cell-Based Meat

By NAMI On August 23, 2018 · Add Comment

By: Barry Carpenter

Today, the North American Meat Institute partnered with Memphis Meats, the leader in the cell-based meat industry, on a letter to President Trump pushing for the most appropriate regulatory system for new cell-based products being developed for the marketplace.

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But What Will the Inspector Do? Facts About Inspection of Meat and Cultured Products

On August 6, 2018 By NAMI

Last week the North American Meat Institute joined together with the American Farm Bureau Federation, American Sheep Industry Association, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, National Chicken Council, National Pork Producers Council and National Turkey Federation to request that President Trump take action to ensure that USDA have regulatory authority over new cell based meat products.

The [...]

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Response to NY Times Antibiotics Story

On June 4, 2018 By NAMI

Last week, William Cohan published an opinion piece in the New York Times expressing his concerns about antibiotic use in livestock. The article headlined, “Antibiotics in Meat Could be Damaging Our Guts” (which was changed from its original headline) was full of inaccuracies and misleading rhetoric about antibiotic use in animals and the risk [...]

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Mighty Earth’s Mighty Miss

On August 3, 2017 By NAMI

This week the environmental activist group Mighty Earth issued a report titled “Mystery Meat II: The Industry Behind the Quiet Destruction of the American Heartland,” which seeks to blame the meat industry for any real or perceived environmental impact it can find.  It’s a juicy media story, but the report fails at a very [...]

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Lessons on Processed Meat and Cancer

On May 8, 2017 By NAMI

By: Eric Mittenthal

It is rare that I sit in a session at a conference and am riveted by the entire presentation. But that was the case when David Klurfeld, Ph.D., USDA’s National Program Leader for Human Nutrition in the Agricultural Research Service, spoke at our recent Meat Industry Summit. Dr. Klurfeld is not only [...]

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What Happens When You Tell People to Stop Eating Meat

On December 27, 2016 By NAMI

What happens when you tell people to stop eating meat? They get mad! And why wouldn’t they? Meat is both delicious and nutrient dense. In 2016, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans confirmed once again that meat can play a key role as part of a healthy diet, a recommendation consistent around [...]

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Big Media Takes on Big Food, Big Ag and Big Meat

On October 7, 2016 By NAMI

By: Eric Mittenthal

“Lazy, unfair and pointlessly vague.” That’s how the Washington Post’s Paul Farhi described the use of the term “the media” in an article addressing the constant barrage of complaints people wage against “the media” these days. Many of my journalism friends shared it, agreeing that it is frustrating to be [...]

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Meat Consumption is Rising And the Reason is Simpler Than You Think

On August 24, 2016 By NAMI

A new report from Rabobank suggesting meat consumption in the U.S. rose five percent in 2015 generated several headlines over the last week with the media offering analysis of what increased consumption means and why the efforts of anti-meat crusaders (seemingly including some in the media) have failed. The reality of [...]

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Washington Post Continues Its War on Meat

On July 25, 2016 By NAMI

Last week the Washington Post launched yet another series evaluating meat consumption in the U.S. as part of its “In Theory” opinion blog. This follows a recent Wonkblog post written by an intern headlined “Meat is Horrible,” which was so riddled with errors, a correction noting significant revisions had to be added by editors [...]

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