1.   That change would be in the best interests of the meat industry, the consumer and animal welfare.

2.   The meat industry complained that the nutrition chart cast its products in an unfavorable way.

3.   The meat industry has been badly affected by recent food scares.

4.   A long-running tribunal of inquiry into allegations of malpractices within the Irish meat processing industry was adjourned yesterday for the period of the election campaign.

5.   And the U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts that the meat industry, pork included, will continue to benefit from increased trade well into the next decade.

6.   Both the government and the meat industry also advise consumers to thoroughly cook meat to kill any bacteria.

7.   -- Dissent also is heard inside the meat industry.

8.   But the agency has been sued by seven trade associations representing the retail and wholesale food business and the meat industry.

9.   But the conventional meat industry continues to insist that it needs nitrites.

10.   Cattlemen and the meat industry are leading the fight against giving the Agriculture Department expanded enforcement powers.