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Dietary guidelines get mixed reviews
By CAROL RYAN DUMAS
Capital Press
USDA and the Department of Health
and Human Services have reaffirmed
the role of beef and dairy in a healthy
diet in the final 2020-2025 Dietary
Guidelines for Americans, according
to National Cattlemen’s Beef Asso-
ciation and National Milk Producers
Federation.
The two groups issued statements
on Tuesday following the release of the
guidelines, which are updated every five
years.
“Beef is one of America’s favorite
foods, and science consistently shows
lean beef can be a cornerstone in a vari-
ety of healthy diets,” Marty Smith,
NCBA president, said.
“Now more than ever, the key to
proper nutrition is giving people prac-
tical and realistic advice to help cre-
ate balanced diets that work for them,
featuring foods they love — like beef,
which pairs perfectly with other nutri-
ent-rich foods,” he said.
The latest update to the guidelines
also restates dairy’s importance in
healthy diets.
“The panel’s recognition that dairy is
a key source of ‘nutrients of concern’ in
U.S. diets is especially important,” said
Jim Mulhern, NMPF president and CEO.
“During a time of food insecurity and
concerns about nutrition among Ameri-
cans, dairy is a readily available solution
to clearly identified public-health chal-
lenges,” he said.
While the guidelines reaffirm the cen-
tral role of dairy in a healthy diet, NMPF
will continue its efforts to broaden con-
sideration of the latest science on dairy
fats in the next dietary guidelines process.
Another group, however, took issue
with the guidelines.
The Nutrition Coalition, a nonprofit
group of public health advocates, is con-
cerned the guidelines address only a
minority of Americans and not the 60%
with at least one diet-related chronic
disease.
“This narrow scope fails to meet
the congressional statute that the DGA
address the general public,” Nina
Teicholz, the coalition’s executive direc-
tor, said in a press release.
“The general public is now ill,
afflicted with chronic disease, and we
have a national nutrition policy that
ignores them,” she said.
The policy is scoped for disease pre-
vention only and ignores the 60% of the
population diagnosed with one or more
chronic diseases, including heart disease,
obesity and diabetes, she said.
The guidelines broadly influence pol-
icy followed by healthcare practitioners,
educators, media outlets and the military.
They drive food choices for the $100 bil-
lion spent by USDA on nutrition assis-
tance programs for school lunches and
food assistance programs for the elderly,
women with infant children and disad-
vantaged communities, the coalition said.
“The populations in these USDA pro-
grams have significantly higher rates of
diet-related conditions, and yet the foods
delivered to them are arguably inappro-
priate for their diseases,” Teicholz said.
The coalition has called for increased
transparency, a more rigorous scientific
process and the need for the guidelines
to be more applicable to all Americans,
including people with chronic diet-re-
lated diseases.
The coalition also takes issue with the
nondisclosure of potentially significant
conflicts of interest on the expert com-
mittee, including members with ties to
Nestle, Merck & Co., ConAgra, Dannon,
Monsanto and infant formula and baby
food companies.
The COVID-19 pan-
demic threw a curve ball at
Dairy Management Inc.’s
2020 plan to promote the
industry though the Dairy
Checkoff program, but DMI
repositioned itself and hit
the ball out of the park.
“The 2020 plan wasn’t
sufficient for the circum-
stances we had. We had to
redirect and move milk in
other ways,” Marilyn Her-
shey, a Pennsylvania dairy
farmer and DMI chairman,
said during a phone confer-
ence with the media.
The program in place for
2020 was shifted and redi-
rected, and partnerships
and relationships were crit-
ical. That included partner-
ships with Feeding America,
foodservice, state, regional
and national affiliates and
farmers, she said.
Things happened rapidly
with COVID, and DMI’s
promotion plan in 2020 and
in 2021 reflects that, she
said.
Through
September,
combined domestic sales
and exports were up 1.2%
for about 2.7 million pounds
of milk equivalent, DMI
CEO Tom Gallagher said.
“I think people were
Carol Ryan Dumas/Capital Press File
Jersey cows look up from their feed on the Ballard Dairy
in Gooding, Idaho. The Dairy Checkoff pivoted during the
pandemic and maintained demand for dairy products.
never going to guess (in
March) we’d be at that
level,” he said.
Through
September,
domestic sales were only
down 1%, and exports were
up 15%, he said.
“We pivoted on a dime
in both those areas, and the
industry did an excellent
job,” he said.
On the domestic side,
everyone’s early expecta-
tion was that sales would be
down much more, he said.
“I think we will finish
the year in positive territory
domestically if cheese keeps
going the way it’s been
going,” he said.
Retail sales did well but
were nowhere near enough
to offset the loss at restau-
rants. DMI’s efforts in four
areas are the reason domes-
tic sales are about flat and
moving to positive, he said.
First were the pizza pro-
motions with Papa John’s
and Domino’s, he said.
“Pizza has done excellent
because of contactless deliv-
ery. Where did that come
from? That came from us
testing that in the early days
of COVID with Domino’s
in Japan. We helped to fund
that and without contact-
less delivery being tested,
proved and worked through,
we wouldn’t be where we
are,” he said.
The second effort was
continuing to press foodser-
vice to introduce new prod-
ucts, he said.
“All of this is aimed at
overcoming what we lost to
restaurants,” he said.
The third area was GEN-
YOUth’s work in schools.
It’s collected $17 million so
far this year from non-dairy
sources to keep school feed-
ing programs going locally,
which means great things
for students and continued
sales for dairy farmers, he
said.
“So that channel didn’t
go as low as it otherwise
could have,” he said.
GENYOUth is a partner-
ship between the National
Dairy Council and the
National Football League
and was created by the Dairy
Checkoff.
The fourth area was
the work by DMI’s state,
regional and national staff
to help divert food to food
banks, he said.
DMI also worked at
getting the dairy sustain-
ability message to Gener-
ation Z people using pop-
ular gamers like MrBeast
to explain farming and sus-
tainability in the video game
Minecraft, he said.
The videos had 12 mil-
lion views, and the MrBeast
video was the No. 1 trending
video on YouTube for gam-
ing for 24 hours and had 75
million followers, he said.
Study: Wolf immigration does not offset harvest losses
By BRAD CARLSON
Capital Press
When a wolf is harvested, another
wolf probably won’t join the pack
because of its social structure, research-
ers say.
Scientists working in central Idaho
and southwest Alberta, Canada, found
immigration does not offset harvest mor-
tality, and that pack density declined
after the governments began harvest
programs.
Their paper appears in Zoologi-
cal Society of London journal Animal
Conservation.
“Our results indicate immigration
did not compensate for harvest mortal-
ity,” the researchers found. “We hypoth-
esize the social structure of wolf groups
may limit the potentially compensa-
tory response of immigration in some
populations.”
Central Idaho study areas saw wolf
density decline, lead researcher Sarah
Bassing said. Density declined even
more in Alberta.
“We basically found that immigra-
tion did not change after harvest began,”
Bassing said. “The idea that we are
removing more wolves in the system and
that there should be more wolves com-
ing in to replace those individuals — we
did not find that, which was unexpected.”
Researchers believe that to an extent
“part of why we do not see a change
in immigration is because of the social
structure of wolf packs,” she said. As
family units with a complex social hier-
archy, they may not be receptive to in-mi-
grating individuals.
“How wolves respond to harvest,
at least through immigration, is more
nuanced than we initially realized,”
Bassing said.
Researchers from 2007 to 2016 col-
lected genetic samples. In central Idaho,
they surveyed 1,833 predicted rendez-
vous sites, located 70 active sites and col-
lected 12,192 samples.
They said ungulate densities remained
generally consistent, and no disease out-
West Coast states issue
stop order for organic
soil amendment;
company to appeal
By MATTHEW WEAVER
Capital Press
Dairy promotion pivots with pandemic
By CAROL RYAN DUMAS
Capital Press
Capital Press File
Regulators in the three West Coast states have
stopped the use of a soil amendment used by organ-
ic farmers.
breaks were reported that could poten-
tially explain changes in wolf density or
immigration.
The team also surveyed 622 pre-
dicted rendezvous sites in southwestern
Alberta, located 12 active sites and col-
lected 1,270 genetic samples.
Bassing said the data, which a Uni-
versity of Idaho laboratory analyzed,
can show the number of individuals in
a group and how they are related. It also
can identify unrelated wolves — possi-
ble immigrants whose origins could be
explored further.
Cascade, Idaho, rancher Phil Davis
said he disagrees with the study’s
assumption about central Idaho elk pop-
ulations. Declines occurred in response
to pressure from wolves, and more elk
are moving from timber to sagebrush, he
said.
“And it has been my experience that
when there have been wolves harvested,
there have been similar depredation num-
bers for the years following,” he said.
“We’ve always had wolves backfill.”
Oregon, Washington and
California have banned a
product used in organic agri-
culture, saying it contains
active pesticide ingredients.
The company that pro-
duces it says it is appealing
the bans.
The Washington State
Department of Agriculture
recently issued a statewide
Stop Sale, Use and Removal
order for Agro Gold WS,
saying it has been found
to contain active pesticide
ingredients.
Similar orders were
issued in Oregon and Cali-
fornia, according to WSDA.
Marc Lajeunesse, presi-
dent of manufacturer Agro
Research
International,
based in Sorrento, Fla., said
the company is appealing
the decisions in the three
states.
“They are wrong,”
Lajeunesse told the Capi-
tal Press. “We do not use
any pesticide in the produc-
tion of our products. We do
not add any pesticide to our
products. None.”
He hopes to have the
orders rescinded as soon as
possible, he said.
“We have already hired a
team of attorneys to defend
us,” Lajeunesse said.
Any organic opera-
tion that continues to use
the product risks losing its
organic certification, the
Washington
department
said.
“It is rare to find a mate-
rial approved for organic
use that contains ingredients
prohibited in organic pro-
duction, or to find a material
that is misbranded or misla-
beled,” Scott Rice, organic
accreditation manager at
WSDA, told the Capital
Press.
Agro Gold WS is labeled
as an organic biological soil
amendment, meaning it was
approved for use in organic
agriculture production. Nor-
mally, it is sold with the her-
bicide Weed Slayer, which
is registered for use in
Washington state.
WSDA’s Dec. 16 order
requires that all distribution,
promotion, sales and use of
Agro Gold WS in Washing-
ton must cease immediately.
The order also requires the
product be removed from
all visible or accessible pub-
WSDA PESTICIDE
COMPLIANCE
STOP SALE, USE
AND REMOVAL
ORDER
For more information
regarding the WSDA Pesti-
cide Compliance Stop Sale,
Use and Removal Order,
contact Scott Nielsen
in the WSDA Pesticide
Compliance program at
snielsen@agr.wa.gov or
(509) 990-6518.
lic locations.
Agro Gold WS was
listed on 182 WSDA certi-
fied organic farms’ plans in
2020, Rice said.
Rice said the organic
program cannot consult
with the companies it certi-
fies or recommend specific
materials as a replacement
for Agro Gold WS but can
offer technical assistance to
help an operation comply
with the regulations.
As a soil amendment,
Agro Gold WS does not
have to be registered for dis-
tribution or use in Wash-
ington, but because it was
found to contain pesticide
ingredients that were not
listed on its label, WSDA
considers it a misbranded,
unregistered pesticide.
Agro Research Interna-
tional is required to submit a
plan to WSDA on their dis-
posal instructions for deal-
ers, distributors and retailers
who may still hold some of
the product.
Dealers, distributors and
retailers are advised to await
further guidance as to any
quantities they have in stock.
WSDA advises any oper-
ations, organic or conven-
tional, that have been using
Agro Gold WS to contact
their supplier for options on
returning partially used or
unopened product.
WSDA’s
Pesticide
Compliance Program and
Organic Program both
tested separate samples
of Agro Gold WS using
two different laboratories,
according to the depart-
ment. The pesticide active
ingredients of diquat and
glyphosate were detected
in both samples. Diquat
and glyphosate are her-
bicide active ingredients
used for non-selective veg-
etation control.
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