conagra up 15% in a year. >> hot dog grease on your tie big guy. we continue with neil now. >>> all right. well attention holiday travelers. i think the government just said get in line and take a number. hi everyone and welcome. i'm neil cavuto. and this time i think washington's number is up. was a when the head of the tsa is telling fliers to get there three hours early, the head of the fad is telling ours customers disney customers wait in line so what's the hurry with you?

conagra up 15% in a year. >> hot dog grease on your tie big guy. we continue with neil now. >>> all right. well attention holiday travelers. i think the government just said get in line and take a number. hi everyone and welcome. i'm neil cavuto. and this time i think washington's number is up. was a when the head of the tsa is telling fliers to get there three hours early, the head of the fad is telling ours customers disney customers wait in line so what's the hurry with you? hurry up and wait murr-- >> this really is no surprise. the larger these entities get the more bureaucracy becomes interwoven. the longer lines become. the longer waits become. and even when you bring a private sector guy in, you know, like they did with the va, you are if inside a maize like this maizes and people above you -- >> worked with that because -- but they never did. he tried to deal it back slightly. but i'm wondering it was too little too late. >> i think way too late too late. >> and to make that analogy is preposterous. people are going into a private place fo

this saved over conagra 230 tons of pie dough in a year. that's food waste that never happened.retailers increase the donation by over a billion pounds in the last decade. kroger is compiling a digestive turn their food waste into energy. yum brands amount they needed 184 million pounds of food in 1992. let me talk a little bit about about -- gma and fmi boards resolve to work to address consumer confusion around labeling in the a working group of 25 companies last week. national standard is crucial to providing consumers with the clarity they need a 40 states have laws regulating labeling. this regulation on some products in some part of the country is contributed to the confusion. more will need to be done. these labels can tackle only 80% of the total overall food waste going into landfills. clearly more solutions are needed. businesses are facing challenges to food waste. supply chains for example food safety is paramount to the local food banks have maxed out his refrigeration are refrigerated trucks based often food winds up in a landfill. similarly diverting food waste aw

now, tree house has been cautious about the integration of conagra's private label business. shortly after the deal closed they delivered strong earnings and small sales. market took the view in stride, stock rallied on the news, the investors assuming management was trying to low ball them. simple growing pains could only be incredibly lucrative new business. when tree house reported again a few weeks ago. delivering a seven cent earnings basis. they raised their full earnings guidance. the next quarter's earnings could be challenged because of the costs associated with the con agra deal. in response the stocks shot up 6% the next day. they continued to climb through tonight. amazon's related games. speaking of the new private label food business that we don't actually know that they'll subcontract this out to tree house, we only know that amazon consulted with them. my best guess would be tree house gets a piece of this business, they're the number one maker of knockoff store brand food in america. what about the competition. maybe the best comparison here might be pinnacle

that's why we created fwra, cochaired by conagra, we have four areas of focus. assessment, best practices, communications, and policy. from this work, we have seen really tremendous innovations. conagra, who makes marie calendar's pot pies found they can replace the way they're making pie dough in the pan and reduce the amount trimmed off the edge. this saved them over 230 tons of pie dough in a year. that's food waste that never happened. retailers increase food donations by over a billion pounds in the last decade. kroger is piloting a program to turn their waste into energy, restaurants are working to reduce waste. young brands donated over 184 million pounds of food since 1992. let me talk a little bit about date labeling. in january, gma and fmi's boards worked to address consumer confusion around date labeling and a irking group of 25 companies met here last week. a national standard is crucial to providing consumers with the clarity they need. 40 states have laws regulating labeling. this on some products in some parts of the country is contributing to co

some of the companies that have done this are conagra, general mills, kellogg. i mentioned mars. they have already begun to label their products in anticipation of vermont's july 1 requirement. now, vermont has a six-month grace period. again, it's not just around the corner, but the beginning period that companies have been asked to meet is july 1. and because companies are tphoul putting it on -- now putting it on their packages they're discovering there is nothing scary to consumers about it. just like anything else on the ingredients package is information that different consumers can evaluate when it matters to their life. now, there is a group of senators who have said they do want to be part of the dark act, deny americans' right to know. they said we'll have a voluntary labeling plan nationally. we will take away states rights to put information on the package and replace it with a voluntary request for companies to disclose. that is no justification for taking away the ability of states to require what consumers want, which is not a voluntary disclosure. it would be a re

conagra who makes potpies found they could change the way they were placing pie dough and reduce the amount trimmed off the edge. this change saved them over 230 tons of pie dough in a year. that is food waste that never happened. retailers increase food donation by over a billion pounds in the last decade. kroger is turning their food waste in energy. restaurants are working to reduce waste. yum brands alone donated over 184 million pounds of food since 1992. but let me talk about date labelling. in january gma and fmi board worked to address confusion around date labelling and 25 companies met here last week. it is crucial to provide consumers with the clarity they need. 40 states have laws regulating date labelling. this products in some parts of the kmurpt is contributing to confusion but more needs to be done. date label can tackle 8% of the total over all food waste going to landfill. this doesn't mean we should do nothing but clearly more solutions are needed. and businesses are facing challenges to food waste. supply chain challenges and food safety is mara mount so if a food