CFB Opposes Agency Support of Food Day
Colorado Farm Bureau is working with other ag groups to oppose the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s (CDPHE) partnership with anti-agriculture group, FoodDay.org
CDPHE has signed on as a partner with the group Center for Science in the Public Interest in an anti-agriculture, initiative called Food Day. The scheme is billed as a promotion of healthy foods vs. fast foods, but in reality is nothing more than a platform from which all manner of anti-agriculture groups can sell their misinformation.
Food Day’s literature is filled with unsubstantiated claims, factual inaccuracies and unfair attacks on family farms, and the modern food production system. The group sponsoring the Food Day scheme has direct ties with the Farm Animal Rights Movement, HSUS and PETA.
As a regulatory body in Colorado, CDPHE’s support for Food Day demonstrates a bias against some of the very industries it is called on to regulate. Food Day has a clear political agenda beyond a simple message of eating healthy. The program seeks to promote policy agendas that elevate certain industries at the expense of others. By becoming a partner, CDPHE offers an explicit endorsement of the policies and statements promoted by the Food Day organizers.
Colorado Farm Bureau and other Colorado Ag organizations are urging the leadership of CDPHE to abandon their support for Food Day. CFB President Don Shawcroft has penned a letter to CDPHE outlining ag’s position. It was also sent to Gov. Hickenlooper and Commissioner of Agriculture, John Salazar.
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