US Roundtable of Sustainable Beef

US Roundtable of Sustainable Beef

At the recent Colorado Ag Classic one of the speakers was National Cattlemen's Beef Association Executive Director of Global Sustainability for Dr. Kim Stackhouse-Lawson she shared the data of the biggest Lifecycle assessment that the Beef-Check off funded that shows through science that the U.S. beef production has improved its sustainability by 5 percent in five years and if you focus on only the social and evenimromentavl components of sustainability then it has improved by 7 percent in five years.

She continues with more details about the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef and its goals

Stackhouse-Lawson: "So the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef was established in March of 2015 and the overall goal is to advance sustainability in the beef industry through a multi-stakeholder initiative. Multi-stakeholder means we include everyone along the value chain in the decisions we make about beef production. This is really important because this collaboration allows us to basically involved small producers — most importantly or producers most importantly. If we get away from this collaboration it could become a top down approach. So by really including everyone along the value chain we can discuss, and disagree on topics related to sustainability and then move forward with things that are most meaningful for those individuals on the ground."

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