{"id":13194,"date":"2024-09-18T18:35:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T18:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=13194"},"modified":"2024-09-18T19:23:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T19:23:17","slug":"tyson-is-sued-over-labeling-of-climate-smart-beef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=13194","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Is Sued Over Labeling of \u2018Climate-Smart\u2019 Beef"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An environmental group said the company, a major food producer, was misleading shoppers with its claims about eco-friendly practices.<\/p>\n

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A consumer-protection lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges that Tyson Foods is misleading consumers with claims about its efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n

Environmental Working Group, an advocacy group, accused the company of taking advantage of the \u201cwell-intentioned preferences\u201d of shoppers by making false statements in marketing materials, like saying it was working toward \u201cnet-zero\u201d emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050 and by advertising \u201cclimate-smart\u201d beef.<\/p>\n

Industrialized beef production, the lawsuit contends, will never be \u201cclimate-smart\u201d because of the sheer volume of emissions produced in the process of raising cows on an industrial scale. It also argued that the company had shown no evidence of an effort to get to net-zero emissions, a term used by governments and companies to signal their climate goals.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are taking a stand to protect consumers and to demand transparency in an industry that significantly affects climate change,\u201d Caroline Leary of EWG said in a call with reporters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tyson, based in Springdale, Ark., declined to comment on the specifics of the lawsuit. A company statement pointed to its \u201clong history of sustainable practices <\/em>that embrace good stewardship of our environmental resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to its website, Tyson produces about 20 percent of the beef, pork and chicken in the United States, as well as other foods under brands like Jimmy Dean and Hillshire Farm, and is one of the world\u2019s largest food companies. The company detailed its plans to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 in a 2022 sustainability report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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An environmental group said the company, a major food producer, was misleading shoppers with its claims about eco-friendly practices.A consumer-protection lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges that Tyson Foods is misleading consumers with claims about its efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.Environmental Working Group, an advocacy group, accused the company of taking advantage of the \u201cwell-intentioned preferences\u201d of shoppers by making false statements in marketing materials, like saying it was working toward \u201cnet-zero\u201d emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050 and by advertising \u201cclimate-smart\u201d beef.Industrialized beef production, the lawsuit contends, will never be \u201cclimate-smart\u201d because of the sheer volume of emissions produced in the process of raising cows on an industrial scale. It also argued that the company had shown no evidence of an effort to get to net-zero emissions, a term used by governments and companies to signal their climate goals.\u201cWe are taking a stand to protect consumers and to demand transparency in an industry that significantly affects climate change,\u201d Caroline Leary of EWG said in a call with reporters on Wednesday.Tyson, based in Springdale, Ark., declined to comment on the specifics of the lawsuit. A company statement pointed to its \u201clong history of sustainable practices that embrace good stewardship of our environmental resources.\u201dAccording to its website, Tyson produces about 20 percent of the beef, pork and chicken in the United States, as well as other foods under brands like Jimmy Dean and Hillshire Farm, and is one of the world\u2019s largest food companies. The company detailed its plans to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 in a 2022 sustainability report.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13196,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13197,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13194\/revisions\/13197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}