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Buffalo Industry Preparing
New Meat Labeling Program
DENVER, Colo. Consumers
may soon find a new label ap
pearing on meat packages that
verifies that the products came
from animals that were Ameri
can raised, and produced without
added growth hormones, subthe
rapeutic antibiotics, or animal
based feed.
They won’t find the label on
beef, pork, poultry, or lamb. This
new label will appear only on
buffalo meat products.
The National Bison Associa
tion recently began the final
stages of testing on a new animal
tracking program that will allow
products in the retail case or res
taurants to carry a new “Certi
fied American Buffalo” logo that
will be process verified by the
U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Meanwhile, segments of the
major meat industries prevailed
NCGA Sees No Setback For Ethanol In Ruling
WASHINGTON, D.C.
The National Com Growers
Association (NCGA) said last
week the ruling by the U.S.
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
in San Francisco substantiating
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) actions support
ing ethanol is not a setback for
the renewable fuel. The same
court ruling also requires EPA
to reconsider a portion of Cali
fornia’s request for a waiver
from federal fuel additive re
quirements.
“While some may see this de
cision as a loss for ethanol, in
reality, the EPA’s original deci
sion was reaffirmed,” said
NCGA vice president of Public
Policy Jon Doggett. “The court
said EPA should have also
looked at the impact on nation
al ambient air quality stan
dards. .. We are on the verge of
obtaining a national renewable
fuels standard and we don’t
view this as a setback.”
According to court docu
ments, “The EPA abused its
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on Congress this week to elimi
nate funding for a program that
would have required all beef,
pork, lamb, and seafood products
to be marked with the country
of-origin by Sept. 2004.
“The major segments of the
beef and pork industry are fight
ing legislation that would require
them to inform consumers about
the country-of-origin of their
products,” noted Dave Carter,
National Bison Association exec-
utive director. “But buffalo
ranchers are willing to stand be
hind their products. Our new la
beling initiative will assure cus
tomers that we can track buffalo
meat back to American ranches
that do not use growth hormones,
subtherapeutic antibiotics, or
feed with animal byproducts.”
The Bison Association’s new
program will use a special animal
discretion by refusing to evalu- the EPA with instructions to
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nia’s efforts to comply. We ozone and pollutant stan
accordingly remand this case to dards.”
Sustainable Ag Grants Available
For Northeast Farmers
MONTROSE (Susquehanna
Co.) Farmers in the North
east who are interested in con
ducting innovative production
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tracking system to verify that all
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“Certified American Buffalo”
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riculture to develop the proce
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Verified” program.
Once approved by the USDA,
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pating ranchers and marketers to
use the “Certified American Buf
falo” label that will verify that
the products were pro-
duced from American
raised animals that were
not fed antibiotics or ani-
mal byproducts, and were
not administered growth
hormones.
erage grant was about $5,200;
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2003.
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