Soybean Checkoff – Animal agriculture and health, soybean meal

ANIMAL AG AND HEALTH

Soybean meal is the key to healthy animal diets. And, in turn, livestock and poultry offer us many nutritional advantages in our diets. Maintaining domestic food safety is essential to livestock and poultry operations, and they continue to follow rigorous industry and government standards and regulations.

Read each of the following to learn more about the food supply and nutrition:

Links

Food Safety Innovation in the United States: Evidence from the Meat Industry (PDF)

USDA's review of the food safety system in place in the U.S.

Government Food Safety Policies

ERS overview of the food safety guidelines and the costs and benefits associated with them.

Attachments

		Soybean Meal Nutrition Facts ( 125.6 KB ) A fact sheet reviewing the importance of soybean meal in livestock diets.

		Nutritional Benefits of Meat and Poultry ( 126.3 KB ) An overview of the importance of meat and poultry products in a healthy diet according to the "MyPyramid" food pyramid.