Animal Agribusiness industry trade associations are founded and funded by individual companies that profit from the slaughter of innocent lives to represent a specific industry.  These groups disseminate misinformation and lies to increase profits of the companies that fund them; whether giving millions of dollars collectively to individual politicians, paying millions of dollars into the universities to come out with studies benefiting the industry, and manipulating the well-meaning public. 

These trade associations only have one thing one their mind: Money.  They will do anything in their power to manipulate the government and put the public at risk with their cruel products that kill people, the environment and billions of animals every year.

Here is a list of a few animal agribusiness trade associations and what they are involved with.  There are many more and this list will continue to grow. 

National Cattlemans Beef Association (NCBA) is the main trade association and lobbying group for the U.S. cattle industry. It lobbies, channels political contributions, advertises, and engages in public relations on behalf of the industry.
The NCBA gave $286,544 to federal candidates in the 2006 election through its political action committee - 29% to Democrats and 71% to Republicans.

The NCBA website talks about its political involvement: "Election years give industry groups an opportunity to flex their political muscle in campaigns and at Washington fundraisers. With Election 2008 in full swing, cattlemen need to be engaged. Control of the White House – as well as key Congressional control – is up for grabs."

The NCBA spent $365,788 for lobbying in 2009, $40,000 went to two outside lobbying firms with the remainder being spent using in-house lobbyists. This is a clear way industry front groups, such as the National Cattleman's Beef Association, are manipulating government and the well meaning public to profit from the murder of innocent beings!

National Dairy Council (NDC)-  is a peak U.S. dairy industry lobby group. According to its website, the NDC "is dedicated to providing timely, scientifically sound nutrition information on the health benefits of milk, cheese and yogurt."

The Got Milk? marketing campaign based its claims of health and weight loss on a studies conducted at the University of Tennessee by Michael Zemel, PhD. Dr. Zemel has received $1.68 million dollars in grants since 1998 from the NDC. His studies purportedly showed that people on low-calorie diets not only lose weight if they consume dairy products, but lose weight more rapidly. He attributed this effect to "dietary calcium".

In early 2007, after a lawsuit by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), the NDC retracted its claims of weight loss attributed to dairy consumption.

American Meat Institute (AMI) is national trade association and lobbying group which represents "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."

American Egg Board is an egg industry funded promotional group. "AEB's foremost challenge is to convince the American public that the egg is still one of nature's most nearly perfect foods. AEB's basic task is to improve the demand for shell eggs, egg products, as well as spent fowl throughout the United States," it states on its website.