Dairy products

Major Boosts For State’s Dairy, Organic, Anti-Hunger And Lake Champlain Priorities

WASHINGTON (Wednesday, May 14) -- Vermont’s clout in agriculture policy again is paying big dividends as Congress races to finish work on a new bipartisan five-year Farm Bill. The House Wednesday passed the newly negotiated Farm Bill by a veto-proof vote of 318 to 106, and the Senate has set its vote on the bill for Thursday. The Senate is also expected to pass the bill with more than enough votes to override a threatened presidential veto.    » read more »

Congratulates Export Achievement Award Winners as State Boosts Overseas Sales

May 13, 2008 -- MILWAUKEE – Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle today announced that he will lead a trade mission to India in November at the annual Wisconsin International Trade Conference in Milwaukee, where he presented the Governor’s Export Achievement Awards. Wisconsin’s exports grew 11 percent last year, and have nearly doubled since Governor Doyle took office. Wisconsin’s exports to India have grown by 29 percent in the last year.    » read more »

New York Dairy Farmers Need Protection from Increased Costs of Dairy Production

May 9, 2008 -- New York Governor David A. Paterson today announced that after weeks of negotiation, the final version of the federal Farm Bill will include the critical “Feed Cost Adjuster Amendment” to ensure that New York’s dairy farmers will continue to benefit from the federal milk price support program despite the surging costs of animal feed.

A dairy farm in upstate New York: Photo by Anita Gould (CC)    » read more »

Statement from CFA’s Carol Tucker Foreman

January 15, 2008 -- The Bush Administration, after days of internal debate, has rejected public opposition and the pleas of the food industry and consumer groups and approved putting milk and meat from cloned animals in our food.

Milk and meat from cloned animals and their offspring will enter the food supply. They can do so immediately. The products will not be labeled as such and American consumers will have no way to avoid consuming them.    » read more »

Statement by Margaret Mellon, Union of Concerned Scientists

WASHINGTON (January 15, 2008) – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today released a report concluding that meat and milk from cloned animals and their offspring pose no public health threat. At the same time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that it would ask producers of clones to continue to abide by a “voluntary moratorium” and keep their products off the market.

Below is a statement by Margaret Mellon, Director of the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists:    » read more »

15 January 2008 -- A final report from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration concludes that meat and milk from cloned cows, pigs, goats and their offspring are safe for American consumers to eat and drink. Opponents, including a number of consumer and animal rights groups, say the FDA was heavily influenced by the biotechnology industry, and failed to consider possible side effects of cloning.    » read more »

14 January 2008 -- Vitamins play important roles in keeping our bodies healthy. As Rose Hoban reports, in the past few years, researchers have been learning more about some vitamins, discovering that they have more complex roles in human health than previously understood.

Scientists know that Vitamin D is essential to the development and maintenance of healthy bones. But Dr. Thomas Wang from Harvard University says there's a lot more to the Vitamin D story.    » read more »