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On its website AMI states that it "keeps its fingers on the pulse of legislation, regulation and media activity that impacts the meat and poultry industry and provides rapid updates and analyses to its members to help them stay informed." [http://www.meatami.com/Template.cfm?Section=About_AMI&NavMenuID=577]Personnel==
==Personnel==
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==Contact details==
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The '''American Meat Institute''' (AMI) is national [[trade association ]] and [[lobbying]] group which represents "representing companies that process 70 percent of U.S. meat and poultry and their suppliers throughout America." On its website AMI states that it "keeps its fingers on the pulse of legislation, regulation and media activity that impacts the meat and poultry industry and provides rapid updates and analyses to its members to help them stay informed." [http://www.meatami.com/Template.cfm?Section=About_AMI&NavMenuID=577]
===Executive Committee Members (accessed September 2005) ===
Jim Anderson Marlen Research Corporation
*Dane Bernard Keystone Foods, L.L.C.
*Ed Bleka Quantum Foods, Inc.
*Dick Bond [[Tyson Foods]], Inc. (Treasurer)
*J. Patrick Boyle American Meat Institute (President & CEO)
*Bill Brennan Iowa Lamb Corporation
*Rod Brenneman Seaboard Farms, Inc.
*Reed Brown Brown Packing Company
*Bill Buckner [[Cargill]], Inc./[[Cargill ]] Meat Solutions Corp. (Vice Chairman)* John Butts Land O'Frost, Inc.
*Tony Catelli Catelli Brothers, Inc.
*Phil Clemens Hatfield Quality Meats
*Tom Leidy, Leidy's Inc.
*Neal Leonard, L & H Packing Company
*Joe Luter, III, [[Smithfield Foods]], Inc.
*Bo Manly Premium Standard Farms, Inc. (Vice Chairman)
*Chris Mason, AEW THURNE Inc.
*David McDonald OSI Industries, LLC
*John Miller National Beef Packing Company, LLC
*David Miniat Ed Miniat, Inc. (Secretary)
*Tom Neese, Jr. Neese Country Sausage, Inc.
*Ed Nelson Indiana Packers Corporation
*Stewart Owens*, Bob Evans Farms, Inc. (Immediate Past Chairman)
*Larry Odom Odom's Tennessee Pride Sausage, Inc.
*John Oedzes Brown Packing Co., Inc./Dutch Valley Veal
*Tom Routh J.H. Routh Packing Company
*Mike Rozanno Plumrose USA
*Bill Rupp [[Cargill ]] Meat Solutions/Excel Corporation
*T.J. Russell Cloverdale Foods Company
*Rick Searer [[Kraft Foods ]] Global, Inc.
*Alan Simon, Omaha Steaks International, Inc.
*Lackey Stephens R.L. Zeigler Co., Inc.
*Fritz Usinger Fred Usinger, Inc.
==Other SourceWatch resources=Public Affairs staff===*[[Janet Riley]] Senior Vice President Public Affairs and Professional Development *[[David Ray]] Vice President Public Affairs *[[mad cow diseaseMarie E. DeLucia]]Director Education and Professional Development ==Contact==
AMI - American Meat Institute <br>
1150 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 12th floor <br>
Washington, DC 20036<br>
Phone: 202-587-4200<br>
Fax: 202-587-4300<br>
Web: http://www.meatami.com/
==Articles & sources==
===SourceWatch resources===
*[[dioxin in US beef]]
*[[mad cow disease]]
*[[processed food industry]]
*[[Meat & Dairy industry]]
*[[Meat Promotion Coalition]]
*[[War on Animals]]
*[[U.S. Government's War on Animals]]
=== External links ===
*John Stauber, [https://www.prwatch.org/node/4800 Food Flack Nation Attacks Journalist Eric Schlosser], PRWatch.com, May 11, 2006
[[Category: Animal commerce]] [[Category: Industry lobby groups]] [[category:Industry-funded organizations]] [[Category: Food industry]] [[Category: Agriculture]] [[Category: United States]]
