date:Jul 30, 2012
n the USDAs commitment to US farmers and ranchers. It criticised the USDA for specifically targeting beef and dairy production as harmful for the environment, and for quoting health concerns which are not based on fact butstatistics and rhetoric generated by anti-animal agriculture organisations.
NCBA president JD Alexander welcomed the news that the USDA had retracted the statement, saying:We appreciate the USDAs swift action in pulling this disparaging statement off its website. USDA publicly