It’s frustrating to hear someone say “trans fats” since there is no such thing.

Despite pleas from nearly every segment of the dairy industry-some simply cautionary, but others marked by dismay and appall-FDA has given the green light to allowing cloned milk and meat into the food chain.

If the headline is vaguely reminiscent of an early 1960s movie filled with comic scenes of cocktail parties, maybe it should be. 

Many of the familiar arguments about rBST were being heard all over again in the Keystone State last month and farm organizations and dairy processors reacted the industry’s rejection of rBST as a viable tool, and its subsequent reverberations.

Consumer groups in California are asking for new legislation restricting food from cloned animals in the wake of a gubernatorial veto of a bill that would have required labeling of such goods.

John LeBoutillier has been appointed to lead the newly created U.S. ice cream leadership team at Unilever.

LeMARS, Iowa-Mike Wells has assumed the position of CEO at Wells Dairy Inc., and Gary Wells has stepped down to join the board of directors.

As a result of BNP Media’s recent acquisition of Stagnito Communications, Dairy Foods and Dairy Field - two publications each with more than a century of covering the dairy industry - are teaming up to deliver a single package covering all areas of the dairy processing industry.

Glanbia Foods said recently that it will begin producing organic cheeses, and it expects to do so in a big way-producing eight to 10 million pounds of organic cheddar, colby and Monterey Jack cheeses over the next 12 months.

HP Hood LLC plans to sell the conventional dairy business of Crystal Cream & Butter Company of Sacramento, Calif. to Modesto, Calif.-based, Foster Dairy Farms.