The GMA files also namecheck influential pro-meat individuals such as author and podcaster Diana Rodgers, who has been referenced by the Global Meat Alliance in a previous campaign, which targeted the UN Food System Summit. Of the 21 companies and trade groups who appear to have coordinated with the GMA on their at

But the Times story also revealed a more unusual dynamic: that the Clear Center has coordinated public messaging campaigns with industry groups. The sea change in chicken production demonstrated it was possible to quickly scale down antibiotics in farming, but it didn’t do much to reduce overall use, as the chicken industry only used 6 percent of antibiotics in agriculture in 2016. Big companies “are going to capture all of these ingredients and take them away from these smaller companies that are doing the innovation,” Homyak said. But change doesn't happen overnight,” wrote the Bureau in a 5 June statement on the anniversary of the deaths of Phillips and Pereira.

Through its ownership of Keystone—one of the largest international suppliers of industrialized foods to large restaurant and retail chains such as McDonald’s, Subway and Wendy’s—it also processes 250 million birds and manufactures 580 thousand tons of food every year.

The center has also taken hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from other industry sources, according to the Times’s report. The Cattlemen’s Beef Board is the organization that oversees the federally enshrined beef checkoff program, which funds industry marketing and promotion through a fee ranchers pay on every head of cattle. JBS does not evaluate land-use change, a significant source of agricultural GHG emissions, from outside suppliers. In 2022, the chicken industry’s antibiotics purchasing slightly declined, but in every other major sector — cattle, pork, and turkey — antibiotic sales rose.Giant processors have come to dominate the meat sector, giving producers less choice about who to sell their meat to. That will require them to tackle beef and pork, two of the more stubborn and complex sectors of America’s meat system that just can’t seem to quit antibiotics, since doing so could demand substantive changes to how animals are farmed for food.