Tyson agrees to halt ‘net-zero,’ ‘climate-smart’ claims

Tyson Foods Inc. has reached an agreement with the Environmental Working Group (EWG) that it will not make environmental claims for five years after the group alleged the company’s “net-zero” and “climate-smart” claims were false and misleading to consumers.

In its lawsuit, EWG said Tyson’s climate-smart beef program and its goal to reach net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 were false and misleading because, “given the scale of Tyson’s emissions, achieving these commitments would require radical changes to Tyson’s beef production, and Tyson has no plan and has taken no meaningful steps to achieve this.”