Closing Video Store & New Poultry Testing

Closing Video Store & New Poultry Testing plus Food Forethought. I'm Greg Martin with today's Northwest Report. The USDA is issuing new poultry testing performance standards for Salmonella and Campylobacter. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack talking to reporters says that could cut the number of reported illnesses from these bacteria. VILSACK: The Campylobacter standard could save as many as 39-thousand illnesses from occurring and the salmonella revised and improved standard could prevent 26-thousand illnesses each year. We are also putting out a set of guidance materials which will outline in detail steps that they can take and should take. Movie Gallery Inc., the owner of struggling movie rental chain Hollywood Video, is planning to close its remaining stores and liquidate as consumers are increasingly get movies through the mail, vending machines and high-speed Internet connections. The No. 2 rental chain behind Blockbuster filed a notice late last week that it will terminate its business operations after defaulting on a loan from one of its creditors. The company, based in Wilsonville, Ore., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February, buckling under the competitive pressure from movies-by-mail service Netflix, DVD kiosk company Redbox and delivery of movies and TV shows over the Internet. Now with today's Food Forethought, here's Lacy Gray. It's about time! Instead of continuing to turn the other cheek the livestock and dairy industries finally have a champion who tells it like it really is to the media. Michael Pollan beware, Frank Mitloehner has arrived on the scene and he's ready to tell the world the truth when it comes to the dairy industry and livestock operations contribution to the world's greenhouse gases. Contrary to a 2006 U.N. report which so many anti-meat activists like to quote stating that livestock was responsible for eighteen percent of world greenhouse gas emissions, Mitloehner's work and studies over the last ten years have culminated in a report that asserts the American beef and dairy industry accounts for only 2.7 of the world's greenhouse gases. That's a huge difference and one that consumers need to be made aware of. Like the fickle beast it is the media has started to change its tune when it comes to reports and grumblings claiming livestock and dairy industries as being destructive to the planet. Even the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization now agrees with Mitloehner's report stating that "American dairy farms have the world's lowest emissions". Thanks Lacy. That's today's Northwest Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.