Sentences with phrase «farm policy director»
Presenters at the public summit included Nate Lewis, Farm Policy Director for the Organic Trade Association, speaking on how to build organic farmer coalitions and encourage farmers to transition to organic; Dr. Jessica Shade, Director of Science Programs for The Organic Center, presenting the latest research on the benefits of organic; and Monique Marez, who gave an update and analysis of global organic trade and imports.
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«The transitional certification program developed by OTA reflects perspectives from across the supply chain, and will provide an on - ramp to producers while safeguarding organic as the gold standard of food label claims,» said Nate Lewis, Farm Policy Director for OTA.
«What we've heard from the National Organic Program was that they're intending to finalize the rule by the end of the year,» said Nate Lewis, the Organic Trade Association's Farm Policy Director.
Amazon's expansion in organic products through Whole Foods bodes well for the sector, said Nate Lewis, farm policy director at OTA.
Not exact matches
«It goes beyond matters of income and wages, said Will Rodger, director of policy communications, American Farm Bureau.
«The EPA has been overzealous and overreaching in their attempts to mitigate the inevitable environmental impacts of farming, said Will Rodger, director of policy communications, American Farm Bureau.
«We'll be grateful for whatever gets accomplished this year, but as for the big picture...» said Dale Moore, executive director public policy for the American Farm Bureau Federation.
«We applaud ConAgra Foods tackling one of the most serious farm animal welfare problems,» stated Josh Balk, corporate policy director of farm animal protection for The HSUS.
«The Humane Society of the United States applauds Arby's for closing its doors to pork producers that aren't eliminating gestation crates,» stated Josh Balk, corporate policy director of farm animal protection for The HSUS.
«We applaud Hillshire for moving to improve conditions for pigs in its supply chain,» stated Josh Balk, corporate policy director of farm animal protection for The HSUS.
«We applaud Bruegger's Bagels for its work to improve the lives of pigs in the pork industry,» stated Josh Balk, corporate policy director of farm animal protection for The HSUS.
«We welcome Williams Sausage's decision to work with its suppliers to eliminate gestation crates,» stated Josh Balk, corporate policy director of farm animal protection for The HSUS.
Josh Balk, senior food policy director for The HSUS said, «Dunkin's commitment to improve the lives of farm animals is taking another positive step.
«The farm bill should not be used for offsets,» said Ferd Hoefner, the policy director of the Sustainable Agriculture Coalition.
A review of all the commercial organic formulas on the market by Charlotte Vallaeys, former Director of the Farm and Food Policy at the Cornucopia Institute and now a Senior Analyst within the Consumer Safety and Sustainability Program, concludes that Baby's Only Organic by Nature's One has the least amount of toxins.
Debra Eschmeyer — Food and Society Policy Fellow and the Outreach Director of the National Farm to School Network and the Center for Food & Justice.
NY Farm Bureau Director of Public Policy Jeff Williams is positive after an initial review.
«The RSPCA seems essentially to be adopting a pro-intensive farming policy,» says Cindy Milburn, director of special projects for the World Society for the Protection of Animals.
Mark A. Kastel is co-founder of The Cornucopia Institute, a progressive farm policy research group based in Wisconsin and director of its Organic Integrity Project.
The chapter hosted Lewis Bollard, Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) policy advisor, who spoke on Ag - Gag laws, and Liz Hallinan, Compassion Over Killing director of policy, who talked about animal and human rights abuses in factory farming.
To name a few: Dr Nina Pierpont, USA, author of «The Wind Farm Syndrome»; Dr Sarah Laurie, Australia, Medical Director of the Waubra Foundation; Dr Bob Thorne, Australia, Psychoacoustician; and Dr Carl Phillips, a Harvard - trained epidemiologist specializing in public health policy, formerly tenured professor in the School of Public Health, University of Alberta, who wrote about governments denying the health problem: «The attempts to deny the evidence can not be seen as honest scientific disagreement and represent either gross incompetence or intentional bias.»
But it looks like the Soil Association is not advocating business as usual in any shape or form, as Policy Director Peter Melchett explains — organic farming needs to be considered as part of a wider rethink of our destructive food systems:
In his testimony to the Australian Senate Inquiry into the Social and Economic Impact of Rural Wind Farms Mr Ken Andrew McAlpine (Director; Policy and Government Relations, Asia - Pacific Region, Vestas Australian Wind Technology Pty Ltd) pointed out that health concerns about wind turbines are confined to those areas where there are significant lobbies telling people that turbines are making them ill: Australia, in the north - eastern US (where Nina Pierpont comes from), some regions of Canada, and in the UK where the Country Guardians publicises the claims.
Don Parrish is the Senior Director, Regulatory Relations, for the American Farm Bureau Federation's Public Policy team in Washington, D.C.. His primary area of responsibility at the FB is the Clean Water Act, which encompasses a wide range of issues affecting farmers and ranchers.