Sustainability is the latest ingredient to be mixed in to the nutrition policy making process. It is also a topic that the Dietary Guidelines Committee has addressed this year by creating a subcommittee dedicated to this issue.We've commented frequently on the new consumer trends in food consumption and political directions that impact food production. In the past two years, major grocery and restaurant chains have started to move to battery cage-free eggs and broilers and gestation crate-free pork, while a number of state laws have also implemented bans on specific production practices. Grass-fed beef remains a popular, although untenable, standard for healthy eating. Men's Health magazine calls grass-fed beef a food with "superpowers," a...
From WPI Consulting
Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.