More Nutrition Information & Internet Pet Sales

Tuesday May 15th, 2012 37 Views Northwest Report

More Nutrition Information & Internet Pet Sales plus Food Forethought. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Northwest Report.

The internet has changed our lives. Instant news and information and then there’s the shopping. You can buy pretty much anything from anywhere and that includes pets. This has prompted some changes in how pets are now being sold. Rebecca Blue, Deputy Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, outlines changes under a proposed new rule on internet pet stores.

BLUE: Looking at how the proposed rule is written, if you had more than 4 breeding females and continued to sell over the internet you would have to apply for a license with the U.S. Department of Agriculture - APHIS. With that then you would have to meet the criteria and would be subject to inspection.

A survey released Thursday shows that the number of Americans who desire more information on nutrition labels is on the rise - but confidence in the safety of U.S. food has not changed. According to the survey - 24-percent of those surveyed would prefer more information on labels - up from 18-percent in a survey of consumer perceptions of food technology in 2010. Among the information they’d like to see - nutrition, ingredients and potential allergens and their side effects.

Now with today’s Food Forethought, here’s Lacy Gray.

May is National Beef Month, and that works perfectly with all the grills being fired up now that warmer weather has finally arrived. To the consternation of anti-meat activists, beef is still one of
America’s favorites when it comes to grilling. Here’s another little tidbit that anti-meat activists find it hard to swallow, there are twenty-nine cuts of beef that meet government guidelines for lean, which means they have less than ten grams of fat and less than four point five grams of saturated fat per serving. On top of that, those twenty-nine cuts of beef are packed with nutrients, like zinc, iron, a multitude of B-vitamins, and protein. National Cattleman’s Beef Association’s Executive Chef Dave Zino likes to say that “beef is nature’s best tasting multi-vitamin”. Zino also says to help in identifying lean cuts of beef at the supermarket just remember loin and round, those choices should get you lean cuts of beef every time. Whether your favorite for the grill is sirloin, top loin, tender loin, or top round you know it’s going to taste good. And now you know that while you may be choosing beef because of its flavor, you’re also making a healthy food choice.

Thanks Lacy. That’s today’s Northwest Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.