Sustainability: Conclusion or Prelude? Building the Future
Posted 5/2/07
The final installment of IFCNR's four-part series on Sustainability. [more...]

Sustainability Part 3: Of Africa and Island Nations
Posted 4/13/07
The third in IFCNR's Series on Sustainability. [more...]

Sustainability Part 2: What is it?
Posted 4/10/07
The second in the series of IFNCR's views on sustainability. [more...]

Sustainability: Who Defines the Terms?
Posted 4/3/07
Sustaniability has finally become a concept more and more commonplace among global traders. In this series IFCNR looks at the pros, the cons, the pitfalls. [more...]

Must We Choose Between Organics & Feeding Everyone?
Posted 6/14/06
IFCNR looks at the debate over organic versus conventionally grown foods and asks what's the problem? Why must we choose one versus the other when we can have both? [more...]

Holstein Nations
Posted 7/18/05
One breed leads the dairy production of North America. That's why the U.S. and Canada are Holstein nations. [more...]

Careless Science Costs Lives
Posted 2/22/05
A must-read article for everyone . [more...]

GROWTH HORMONES & VEAL ARE THE CENTER OF FSIS’ CALF HACCP NOTICE
Posted 12/27/04
FSIS agents learned this year that the prohibition against growth hormones are being ignored by some veal growers. FSIS wants slaughterhouses to upgrade their process to weed out offenders. [more...]

World Health Officials See Bird Flu Inevitable Human Pandemic
Posted 11/30/04
Nations had better begin cobbling together strategies to combat the deadly offspring of Asian Avian Flu virus World Health Organization officials predict will begin infecting humans globally in the near future. [more...]

Waste Lagoons - A Target-Rich Environment
Posted 8/26/04
Waste lagoons associated with food animal production, and the pork industry in specific, do not need to be the target for negative, environmentalist-led campaigns. [more...]

PETA & KFC: Why Traditional Strategies Fail
Posted 8/5/04
KFC, and virtually any industry in the sights of the animal and environmental community, had no defense against the campaign that it is cruel to animals orchestrated by PETA. Find out why. [more...]

The Food Industry's Challenge: Brand Loyalty or Credibility
Posted 5/13/04
Farmers, ranchers need a new strategy for success if they are to defeat NGOs. That's true from seafood restaurants to shrimp farms to deepwater ocean fishing vessels to hog and chicken farms. [more...]

Farm Aid: Is it Anti-family Farms or Just Another NGO Front?
Posted 4/13/04
Is Willie Nelson's Farm Aid a front for anti-farm environmental and animal rights groups? [more...]

Confronting the U.S. Veal Industry’s “Grey Area” of Hormone Use
Posted 3/31/04
USDA approves growth hormones for beef and other bovines but prohibits their use in veal calves. That's called the "grey area" to veal producers. [more...]

Has Avian Flu Spread Peaked Worldwide?
Posted 3/11/04
Health officials around the world are hoping avian flu is on the wane. [more...]

PEW PCB Study Reveals NGO Strategies for 2004 & Beyond
Posted 1/28/04
The recent study on "contaminants" in farmed salmon financed with $2.5 million from the PEW Charitable Trusts is a preview of what virtually every industry involved in natural resource use can expect from this point on. [more...]

2004: Year of Rice - A Year of Promise or Problems?
Posted 12/3/03
Agriculture will be spotlighted in 2004. The decision must be made as to the posture it takes: as savior of the world's hungry or victim of more NGO attacks. [more...]

Organic Marketing: Political Advertising in Lamb's Clothing
Posted 11/12/03
There is plenty of room for organic, non-organic and biotech enhanced foods on the world's grocery shelves. The organic food industry's surrogate marketers don't believe in consumer choice. [more...]

Of Princes, Prophets, Preserving the Earth & Feeding the Hungry
Posted 10/23/03
Feed the hungry: humanity can do it. We just differ on how to go about the task. [more...]

COW MILK or SOY: What’s the Nutrition Story?
Posted 10/20/03
The controversy over milk in the school lunch program is focused on Congress. [more...]

WTO Meetings Collapse over Power Tug-of-War
Posted 9/15/03
Food and global trade are universally acknowledged by developed and developing nations as highly desirable. So why couldn't an agreement over both be reached at WTO? [more...]

IFCNR to Attend 19th Meeting of CITES' Animals Committee
Posted 7/4/03
Why IFCNR's presence at CITES is important. [more...]

AFRICAN/WORLD POOR PAWNS IN INTERCONTINENTAL GMO CLASH OF WORDS
Posted 6/26/03
Farmers feed people and hope to make money to support their families in the process. That's true everywhere. The GMO feud is keeping poor subsistence farmers out of the economic loop. [more...]

Tomorrow Pork! The Day After...Everything Else.
Posted 6/13/03
In an IFCNR analysis of current events the extreme animal rights and enviromental NGO campaign against Pork illustrates the strategies aimed at all food industries. [more...]

NGOs LAUNCH FARM CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
Posted 5/29/03
A new "humane care" certification group is on the agricultural landscape. Despite claims to the contrary, objectivity is not their strong suit. [more...]

DEBATE OVER GM "FOOD FIGHT" AT WTO SPARKS INTERESTING CONCEPTS
Posted 5/16/03
The back and forth debate over taking the issue of opening EU markets to genetically modified foods and medicines has caused some very interesting global discussions. [more...]

PRO-BIOTECH COALITION FILE WTO CHALENGE TO EU
Posted 5/15/03
The agricultural biotech war between nations that farm genetically enhanced crops and the European Union has begun. [more...]

AUSSIES OK GM CANOLA/BRAZIL SELLS GM SOY/ EU CONFIDENCE LAGGING
Posted 4/4/03
The affects of anti-GM crop advocacy has made its mark on older European consumers but globaly the GM market exists and is growing. All that is lacking is pro-GM advocacy. [more...]

WHO ARE THESE FARM AND GRASSROOTS GROUPS OPPOSING GM WHEAT?
Posted 3/17/03
When the news media continually features certain "farm groups" as critics of modern agriculture, it's time to look behind the scenes. [more...]

EPA’s Methymercury Report: Lawyers, Liability & Politics
Posted 2/27/03
The on-going controversy over methyl mercury and human health demands facts not fantasy. [more...]

California Prop 65 Suit Against Grocers: Watch It Closely
Posted 1/24/03
Today, Proposition 65 legal action is against grocers selling seafood without warning customers of mercury content. What toxic chemicals can NGOs find in farm products? [more...]

HSUS' Pacelle Issues Challenge to U.S. Agriculture
Posted 1/17/03
The gauntlet has been thrown down to U.S. agriculture: conform to animal rights' dictates or suffer the consequences. [more...]

Roundup Weed Resistence: The Rest of the Story
Posted 1/17/03
The funeral notice posted in the New York Times about the impending death of Roundup herbicide is a bit premature. [more...]

Debate over GM Crops Ignores Mendel, History, and Children
Posted 1/17/03
The NGO protests over GM crops ignores history and humans struggling to survive amid hunger and drought. [more...]

EU Refusal to Allow U.S. Grain Prompts Call for WTO Action
Posted 1/10/03
U.S. Trade Rep. Robert Zoellick issued a call for the U.S. to seek WTO aid in opening EU markets for U.S. grain. [more...]

Seaboard Farms Pays Steep Price for Lack of NGO Savvy
Posted 1/8/03
The NGO community hoping to extract substantial court awards from the U.S. pork industry found their legal precedent in Oklahoma. [more...]

NGO Influence is Exacting a Toll from U.S. Agriculture
Posted 12/19/02
Whether on the domestic front or globally, NGO influence is playing havoc with U.S. and global trade. [more...]

CITES Set to Target Major Commercial Industries
Posted 12/2/02
CITES intends to impose its regulatory will over major commercial interests from timber to fisheries, pharmaceuticals to farming, mining and energy. [more...]

Reports from CITES - CoP12 Conclusion
Posted 11/19/02
Commercial sustainable use interests left CoP 12 with no idea of the extent of the losses they suffered. [more...]

Reports from CITES - No. 8
Posted 11/15/02
CITES is winding down. Today is the last day of the CoP12 Plenary. [more...]

Reports from CITES - No. 7
Posted 11/14/02
CITES CoP12 will end after tomorrow. Meanwhile the work in the Plenary sessions decides on the real policy of use versus no use. [more...]

Reports from CITES - No. 6
Posted 11/13/02
Zambia and Zimbabwe's insult to U.S. farmers left those counties with stocks of ivory languishing over a "NO Sale" from CITES. [more...]

Reports from CITES - No. 5
Posted 11/12/02
The Committee discussions from now until the final days of the full Plenary are getting into the real meat of CoP12. [more...]

Reports from CITES - No. 4
Posted 11/11/02
The U.S. is a sustainable use nation whose environmental laws do not reflect that status. At CoP12 the U.S. wants the rest of the world's nations to endure its position on resource preservation versus act responsibly on their own. [more...]

Reports from CITES - No. 3
Posted 11/8/02
Committee work is still the preoccupation of CoP12 after five days of meetings. [more...]

Reports from CITES - No. 2
Posted 11/7/02
CITES debate at CoP12 has the very real potential to touch every enterprise dealing with nature's resources, not just those in the wild. [more...]

Reports from CITES - No. 1
Posted 11/5/02
Summaries of the actions and decisions made at the 12th Conference of the parties to CITES in Santiago, Chile 3-15 November. [more...]

CITES Revisited: How Species Proposals Affect Pro-Use Issues
Posted 10/28/02
The up-coming conference of the parties to CITES will see controversy on issues that can affect any number of sustainable use issues. [more...]

NEW SCIENTIST Calls for Global Cooperation, Not Name-calling
Posted 10/7/02
The days of conflict activism by environmental NGOs must halt, according to NEW SCIENTIST magazine. [more...]

UN Food Aid Chief Says Biotech Crops Are Safe
Posted 9/20/02
Irate over the dangers posed by the "irrational" charges by anti-biotech NGOs, the World Food Progam's head took his message that GM food is safe to the public. [more...]

Real Winners & Potential Losers at the World Summit
Posted 9/5/02
IFCNR's analysis of the true importance of the activities at the recent World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa. [more...]

Hog and Cattle Farms Seen as Future for Canadians
Posted 8/29/02
Why are Canadians looking to intensive hog and cattle farming at a time when NGOs are hammering model operations in the U.S.? [more...]

"Fair Coffee" Buzz Shows Eco-label, Anti-GMO Ties
Posted 8/7/02
Even a casual notice of eco-labeled coffee can lead to the complex web of NGO interests laboring behind the scene. [more...]

Playing Fast and Loose with Ethics While Forests Burn
Posted 8/7/02
Politics and perfidy are causing our forests to burn. What happened to sustainable management? [more...]

"What Price Science?" by Stephen S. Boynton, President
Posted 8/2/02
IFCNR President Stephen Boynton responds to Zimbabwe's insult to U.S. farmers and scientists. [more...]

Methyl Mercury: FDA Hold Firm Vs NGOs on Tuna
Posted 7/29/02
Claims by NGOs that a toxin in the flesh of a food animal is reason enough to ban consumption are disputed by research. [more...]

Alien Fish Species Point to Dangers to Farm Animals Too
Posted 7/14/02
Headlines about invasive aquatic species may help the public realize the dangers alien species pose to domestic species in the wild and on farms. [more...]

"Tobacco-Style" RICO Suit Versus Hog Farm Tossed as "Frivolous"
Posted 7/3/02
The legal assault by litigating NGOs aginst the U.S. farm animal industry met its first significant defeat. The NGOs vow to appeal. [more...]

FMI's Food Animal Guidelines: Another View
Posted 7/2/02
The Food Marketing Institute truly believes it helped U.S. food producers and processors with its "voluntary humane food animal guidelines." Is it a case of the cure being more deadly than the disease? [more...]

Feds Blame NGOs, NGOs Blame Everything Else for Wildfires
Posted 6/27/02
Ag Secretary Veneman blames Green group interference with Forest Service tactics for the devastation caused by wildlfires in the western U.S. [more...]

EPA Caught in Hypocritical Role over Contaminated Fish & Rice
Posted 6/26/02
EPA is an agency growing in controversy, from farmers and others dependent upon nature's resources as well as from environmentalists who oppose even sustainable resource use. [more...]

Chloramphenicol: the Controversy Grows Murkier
Posted 6/17/02
The controversy rocking the shrimp aquaculture industry over residue traces of the antibiotic chloramphenicol has implications for agriculture products too. [more...]

New Zealand Disputes Health, Taste Claims by Organic Farmers
Posted 5/6/02
Studies purporting to prove that organically grown foods taste better and are healthier than conventionally grown counterparts fail to pass the credibility test, according to New Zealand researchers. [more...]