“Pork: The Other White Meat” Legal Decision and Ramifications
By Sarah Everhart This is not a substitute for legal or financial advice. See here for the site’s reposting policy. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) oversees multiple federal programs promoting certain agricultural commodities, funded by “checkoffs” or mandatory assessments that producers and importers pay on the sale or import of the commodity. The assessments are used to pay for research and marketing of the commodities, and they subsidize well-known advertising