EU Gets Nutrition Right It looks messy, with fights over food labeling, red light systems versus front of package, etc. But EU policymakers see the rise in obesity and poor eating habits and actively seeks ways to change public attitudes. By contrast, policymakers in Washington talk about more of the same food but free. Addressing nutritional shortcomings is not solved by Meatless Mondays, local and organic. It requires a long-term, saturated education campaign to improve public awareness. It also requires changing public policies that influence production, like the Farm Bill. Sensing Weakness In President Biden’s analysis, Donald Trump was an international embarrassment. This is true in part but in seeking to compensate for...
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.