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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4914 on: July 14, 2020, 11:28:03 PM »
Don't worry, MrNubbz, I always figure you've got your tongue planted firmly in your cheek.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4915 on: July 15, 2020, 12:16:16 AM »
American egg farmers approved the creation of the American Egg Board in a 1975 referendum. It was created by the Egg Research and Promotion Order pursuant to the Egg Research and Consumer Information Act of 1974.[2][3] A referendum was conducted November 3–28, 1975, by the Agricultural Marketing Service and seventy-three percent of eligible producers approved the program.[4] The Egg Board established by the order became the American Egg Board beginning July 9, 1976.[5]
In 1977, American egg farmers also began work on an advertising campaign to increase demand for eggs – its first television commercial began airing in 1977, touting the nutritional benefits as "The Incredible, Edible Egg" featuring actor James Hampton.[6] In 1993, the American Egg Board launched a new advertising campaign called "I Love Eggs", in which the campaign ran from 1993 to 1997. In 1998, the American Egg Board launched another advertising campaign called "If it ain't eggs, it ain't breakfast, I love eggs".
The American Egg Board also promotes the many facets of egg products and the unique functionalities they contribute to many packaged food products. The term ‘egg products’ refers to processed and convenience forms of eggs for foodservice and food manufacturers. These products can be classified as refrigerated liquid, frozen, dried, and pre-cooked products. Additionally, the American Egg Board also works with foodservice professionals to keep eggs on top of evolving food trends, emerging consumer needs and changing competitive landscapes.[7]
Suppression of free marketplace[edit]
In 2008, The Egg Board tried to funnel $3 million to a private lobbying organization, attempting to overturn a California ballot measure which would prohibit the extreme confinement of farm animals. This unlawful coordination with an advocacy group was stopped by an injunction issued by a federal court.[8]
Anti-competitive marketing tactics have also been displayed by the Egg Board in their involvement to get government retailers and regulators to participate in the halting of sales for Just Mayo brand products. The USDA found emails by the Egg Board threatening to put a “hit” CEO Josh Tetrick of Hampton Creek, the company that produces Just Mayo brand products.[9]


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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4916 on: July 15, 2020, 12:19:29 AM »
It's no joke.  
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4917 on: July 15, 2020, 07:22:01 AM »
Lobbying should not be permitted, at all.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4918 on: July 15, 2020, 07:32:27 AM »
Lobbying is hard to separate from free speech.

I don't know how it could be banned.

And of course the fact that egg farmers band together to market their product is not unexpected.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4919 on: July 15, 2020, 07:38:16 AM »
If you're getting paid for it, you're a lobbyist. If you're getting paid for it, you're not allowed in the building.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4920 on: July 15, 2020, 07:55:21 AM »
Of course, the term "lobbyist" comes from the lobby of the Williard Hotel.  They don't have to be in the actual Capitol Building.

I've mentioned before how I was peripherally involved in a lobbying effort on patent stuff.  The point was to try and educate our Congressman on that topic.  It wasn't political.  The Congressmen generally don't know very much about much of anything.

Anyway, I don't think lobbying could be ended in any practicable sense.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4921 on: July 15, 2020, 08:17:54 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on July 15, 2020, 12:19:29 AM
It's no joke. 
It's not why we eat eggs as you asserted a month back.Probably because they were a healthy source of protein and relatively cheap and good tasting.Down on the farm my Uncle/Aunt/cousins ate them pretty much every day
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4922 on: July 15, 2020, 08:30:18 AM »
I'm going to have Pho pho breakfast today, when I'm hungry.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4923 on: July 15, 2020, 08:35:07 AM »
How did we get back on the egg lobby? 
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4924 on: July 15, 2020, 08:40:01 AM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on July 15, 2020, 08:30:18 AM
I'm going to have Pho pho breakfast today, when I'm hungry.
It's very appropriate breakfast food.  My native-Vietnamese work partner in my first job out of undergrad, said that pho is what her parents would make for their big breakfast on Sunday mornings.  They were fairly poor and it was the one time per week they weren't eating small simple meals of rice and vegetables.  Her favorite proteins in pho were bible tripe and soft tendon.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4925 on: July 15, 2020, 08:46:09 AM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on July 15, 2020, 08:35:07 AM
How did we get back on the egg lobby?
Someone may have felt embarrassed, and rather than just letting it be forgotten ....

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4926 on: July 15, 2020, 08:46:59 AM »
I dunno, maybe some folks here would be shocked to learn that just about every area of significant product sales to us has some kind of "board" to advance sales of those products, or at least many of them.  I'm sure there is a milk board, for example.  This is probably more true when said product has been attacked by some as being "bad for us".  Maybe there is a chocolate board?

Cheese, yogurt, all dairy, I would guess, have some kind of collective marketing board saying "Got Milk?" or somesuch.

"Beef, it's what's for dinner"....  "Pork, it's the other white meat" ...  "Chicken, it tastes like chicken!" ....  "Fish, it's good for what ails you." ....

I don't recall there being a paper towel board, of shampoo board, but maybe there is, those items are less "public" than most in their imagery.  Plastics?  I bet there is some kind of marketing group fanning the sales and imagery of plastics.  It's the future you know.

I've seen Exxon advertising the merits of fuel from algae, which technically is absurd, it's just a PR campaign, but that is just that company, it's an example of how commercial enterprises attempt to influence us, I view it as PR.  We did a lot of it where I worked, and when I was on the fringes of it it was rather painful for me.

I tried to note how the storyline made no sense, and it didn't, but that was not THE POINT.  They didn't want truth, they wanted IMAGERY.

And that specific public issue went whoosh a few years later, not long (landfills filling up with diapers).
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4927 on: July 15, 2020, 08:48:49 AM »
Yesterday was my i s c & a aggie wife and my 19th anniversary, and normally we go out to a fancy schmancy restaurant to celebrate.  Most of those are still closed, so we got take-out sushi instead.  That's the first time I've ever had take-out sushi, and it was actually pretty great.  We picked it up, threw it in a cooler with ice packs to keep it cool for the drive home, and it turned out well.  

There were no eggs in any of our dishes.
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