Agriculture and Food Safety
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To feed a growing population in the United States and around the world, America’s food supply must be abundant, affordable, and safe. The U.S. Chamber works with and on behalf of the entire industry to advance a secure, efficient, and reliable consumer food supply chain to nourish people and support healthy communities.
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More than $2.3 billion in Michigan exports are vulnerable due to the emerging trade war, leaving business owners paying the bill.
Chamber members operate at all stages of the nation’s food supply chain and many food products marketed today contain bioengineered (BE) ingredients. It is imperative that AMS promulgates a standard that provides regulatory certainty for the food supply chain, allows consumers to obtain more information if they want it, and protects the biotechnology industry from harmful and stigmatizing mandatory warning labels.
Changes to federal law will ensure that consumers continue to benefit from the nutritional and allergy information on packaging.
On Sunday 100 million Americans will gather around TVs, snark at the commercials, and stuff their faces with food, all thanks to NAFTA.
Chris Petersen is one of Iowa’s family farmers concerned about the direction of U.S. trade policy and its impact on the state's economy.
Threats to NAFTA have already hurt U.S. wheat. Mexico is making deals with U.S. competitors Brazil and Argentina.
More than one-third of U.S. pork exports go to Canada and Mexico.
I have been impressed to learn just how broad support for NAFTA is among American companies of every size, sector, and region.
The U.S. Chamber Technology Engagement Center (C_TEC) today kicked off its TecExec Series with “Farm to Table: A Tech Story,” an event discussing the role of technology in agriculture, retail, and the grocery industry. It also released the results of a Morning Consult poll, which shows that voters overwhelmingly say technology is beneficial to food production. According to the survey, nearly 8 in 10 voters say technology plays an important role in the grocery industry.
