Feedlot Imprimatur: Public-Private Cooperation in the Advent of Government Beef Grading
Commodity grades seem like innocuous measures of quality and thereby escape scrutiny as to their origin, purpose, and effect. Drawing on the National Live Stock and Meat Board’s executive meeting minutes and US Food Administration (USFA) records, this essay contextualizes and politicizes government beef grading. The USFA played a key role in the lead-up to government beef grading and in the creation of the Meat Board. USFA messaging as well as a post war depression curtailed consumption of feedlot-derived beef. In response, industry leaders formed a trade association called the Meat Board that acted as a liaison between industry and public sector scientists and helped bring about government beef grading. Beef grading emerged in the broader context of a campaign launched by the USFA to modernize meat retailers. At the same time, breeders, feeders, and western ranchers pushed for government beef grading in response to low prices and as a panacea. The Meat Board also cooperated with agricultural scientists in coordinating research to boost feedlot-derived beef. Rather than industry cooptation of science, this essay shows an alignment of vision in a mutually beneficial relationship. These actors, furthermore, used government beef grading to protect the feedlot system of production.
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This co-operative project has continued to develop in a very gratifying manner since the report made a year ago. Twenty-one state experiment stations and the U. S. Department of Agriculture were actively engaged in the work during 1928-29. The States represented were: The U. S. Department of Agriculture was represented by the Bureaus of Animal Industry, Agricultural Economics, and Home Economics. The National Livestock and Meat Board continued to take a deep, interest in the work and assisted materially in the payment of traveling expenses incurred by state representatives in attending the annual conference. A brief report of the 1928 conference of co-operators was given in last year's report to the Association of Land Grant Colleges. The 1929 conference was hwld at Chicago in August and was attended by representatives of 20 state experiment stations, the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and the National livestock and Meat Board. The Scope of the co-operation in this project is broad.
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To the Editor.— The Journalran an advertisement in the Sept 14 issue by the National Live Stock and Meat Board that will mislead all but the most nutritionally aware physicians. Using the headline, Announcing some new findings on cholesterol, the ad erroneously implies that beef has miraculously been transformed into a food that rivals flounder, turkey, and chicken in its ability to lower blood cholesterol levels. In fact, beef is still a more potent elevator of blood cholesterol levels than those other foods, because it is relatively fatty and a hefty 48% of its fat is saturated. That tiny 3-oz serving mentioned in the ad contains 4.8 g of saturated fat (Barbara Anderson, US Department of Agriculture Nutrient Data Research Group; oral communication, Oct 1, 1984). In contrast, a 3-oz serving of flounder or skinless turkey or chicken breast contains only 0.3, 0.2, and 0.9 g of saturated fat,
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To the Editor.— The Journalran an advertisement in the Sept 14 issue by the National Live Stock and Meat Board that will mislead all but the most nutritionally aware physicians. Using the headline, "Announcing some new findings on cholesterol," the ad erroneously implies that beef has miraculously been transformed into a food that rivals flounder, turkey, and chicken in its ability to lower blood cholesterol levels. In fact, beef is still a more potent elevator of blood cholesterol levels than those other foods, because it is relatively fatty and a hefty 48% of its fat is saturated. That tiny 3-oz serving mentioned in the ad contains 4.8 g of saturated fat (Barbara Anderson, US Department of Agriculture Nutrient Data Research Group; oral communication, Oct 1, 1984). In contrast, a 3-oz serving of flounder or skinless turkey or chicken breast contains only 0.3, 0.2, and 0.9 g of saturated fat,
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