The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee has recommended the spawning of many mayors like former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg by suggesting that local governments begin taxing sugary foods and soft drinks.When asked last week whether new dietary guidelines would recommend against the consumption of red meat, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack said, "I would be surprised if the recommendations on meat were fundamentally different than they have been." He also reportedly cautioned that "Everybody's getting wound up on this. It's premature." Well, apparently all of the upset was justified because today the advisory group empaneled by the Obama administration dinged red meat, sugar, sodium and amazingly morphed into behaviorists, tax advisors...
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.