By Peter Welte – When my older sister and I were kids, it was always a treat to get to stay overnight with Grandma and Grandpa Peterson. After all, they lived in the city — the...
Read MoreUSA Today: Dairy Farmers Seek End to ‘Fear-Based’ Food Labeling
By Rick Barrett – A national group with strong ties to Wisconsin dairy farms has urged food companies to stop using labels such as “GMO-free” for marketing purposes. The National Milk Producers Federation, based in Arlington, Va.,...
Read MoreQuartz: “Gluten-Free” Water Shows How Ridiculous Food Labeling Has Become
By Brandon McFadden – The food labeling craze coupled with banner headlines about the dangers of gluten, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and hormones are leading to increasingly absurd results. For example, you can now buy “premium”...
Read MoreApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy: Labeling Food Processes: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
By Kent Messer, Marco Costanigro, and Harry M. Kaiser — Consumers are increasingly exposed to labels communicating specific processing aspects of food production, and recent state and federal legislation in the United States has called for making...
Read MoreDairy Farmers Launch “Peel Back the Label” Campaign to Expose Deceptive Front-of-Package Food Labeling
WASHINGTON, DC – As food manufacturers increasingly turn to fear-based food labeling to prop up profits and consumers face more confusion in the grocery aisles, America’s dairy farmers today launched “Peel Back the Label,” a new...
Read MoreGenetic Literacy Project: Study: Food Products from Livestock Raised on GMO Feed No Different Than Those Fed Conventional Grain
By Alison Van Eenennaam and Amy Young – This review summarizes the available scientific literature on the detection of dietary DNA and protein in animal products and briefly discusses the implications of mandatory GE labeling for...
Read MoreThe Washington Post: 10 Mega Myths About Farming to Remember on Your Next Grocery Run
By Jenna Gallegos – Most of us don’t spend our days plowing fields or wrangling cattle. We’re part of the 99 percent of Americans who eat food, but don’t produce it. Because of our intimate relationship with...
Read MoreBioBeef Blog: False and Misleading
By Alison Van Eenennaam – The standard for voluntary food labeling in the US is that it must be “truthful and not misleading”. I wish that was true for all speech. In this era of alternative...
Read MoreThe Wilmington News Journal: Fear-Based Food Labels Do Far More Harm Than Good
By Kent Messer – Fear. It’s one of the most powerful human emotions. It can make you fight back, stop you in your tracks, or tread carefully. As a behavioral economist, I analyze what motivates people...
Read MoreAg Daily: Bye Bye Arla Foods’ rbST Six-Eyed Monster
You won’t see any of those Arla Foods “Live Unprocessed” ads anymore. A federal court in Wisconsin last week granted Elanco’s motion for a nationwide preliminary injunction against the international dairy conglomerate’s ad campaign, which makes...
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