• Health Blog

    A Friendly Heads Up

    Reporters mark your calendars. Tomorrow (Tuesday, January 5th) the EPA will release The National Lakes Assessment a report billed as "the first-ever assessment of the condition of the nation's lakes."...

  • Health Blog

    Fishiest Stories Of the Year

    There were a load of fishy stories this year-- Like the story former New York Times reporter Marion Burros told... or didn't tell. When NFI posted an open letter to journalists and John Stossel repo...

  • Sustainability Blog

    Is Turnabout Fair Play?

    The master manipulators at Greenpeace have been unfurling banners and vandalizing property for years in the name of raising their profile in the media and raising funds from their supporters. ...

  • Health Blog

    Watch Your Language

    This morning the CBS Early Show did a short segment with Dr. Jennifer Ashton that mentioned seafood and eating fish while pregnant. While Ashton came pretty close to getting the FDA advice on seafood ...

  • Uncategorized Blog

    What You Won’t Hear About the Latest CDC Report on Mercury

    Over the past few days, we've been seeing sporadic reports about a study that was published by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that measured the amount of mercury found in the bodies of most Am...

  • Safety Blog

    When Perspective Is The Proverbial Needle In A Hay Stack

    Just a quick note for you all this morning. For starters if you are not familiar with Arthur Allen let's make one thing clear right off the bat-he is no hack. He has a track record of being fair and g...

  • Blog

    What do U.S. catfish farmers and Vietnam have to do with soy from Illinois?

    Let's start from the beginning. Vietnam represents an important market for U.S. soybeans. U.S. soybean and soybean meal exports to Vietnam totaled nearly $100 million in 2008 and are on the rise. U.S....

  • Blog

    What do U.S. catfish farmers and Vietnam have to do with soy from Iowa?

    Let's start from the beginning. Vietnam represents an important market for U.S. soybeans. U.S. soybean and soybean meal exports to Vietnam totaled nearly $100 million in 2008 and are on the rise. U.S....

  • Blog

    Why Do Catfish Farmers Have Beef With Montana?

    In case you didn't know anti-competition lobbyists representing American catfish farmers are working hard to have a Vietnamese fish called pangasius banned from this country and that spells trouble fo...

  • Blog

    Getting The Story Right

    On Thursday CNN ran a story about imported shrimp from Thailand that was really just a rehash of an old AFL-CIO report about suspected labor abuses. There was nothing new about the report or about the...

Media Blog

    GG CCTV Screen GrabWhether it’s the tip of a hat for a job well done or a demand for correction keep up with NFI’s latest media work on the Media Blog from NFI's Vice President for Communications Gavin Gibbons.