Mexico weighs U.S. meat product sanctions after WTO ruling
Mexico said on Thursday it would decide within about 15 days what sanctions to impose on U.S. meat products if the U.S. Congress does not comply with a World Trade Organization ruling on labeling.
View ArticleAnimal Ag Alliance responds to Walmart's new animal welfare, antibiotic use...
Walmart U.S. and Sam’s Club U.S. announced Friday new positions regarding animal welfare and the use of antibiotics in farm animals. The Animal Agriculture Alliance released the following statement,...
View ArticleHormel Foods to buy organic meat company Applegate for $775 million
Hormel Foods expands its natural and organic meat products.
View ArticleBrazilian meat exporters hit by Russian ban
Russia has banned the import of meat from 10 Brazilian processing plants starting on June 9, the Russian news agency Interfax said on Wednesday, weakening shares of Brazil's big beef exporters JBS SA...
View ArticleMeat of the Matter: Why do we eat meat?
A new study purports to explain the primary reasons why people choose to include meat in their daily diets. And guess what? I anticipated the answers, oh, about 25 years ago.
View ArticleMeat of the Matter: Does badgering actually work?
According to British animal activists, all you need are cute, furry animals and a venti-sized serving of outrage, and you can convince consumers to willingly cut off their own food supply.
View ArticleLibya warns against diseases in Benghazi as meat rots in closed port
Libyan authorities warned on Monday that diseases might break out in the eastern city of Benghazi due to imported meat left rotting for months in containers at the city's closed commercial port.
View ArticleConsumer Trends: Why eat meat?
Eating meat is axiomatic for livestock producers — they’ve probably never stopped to ponder why they do it. But that’s not necessarily true for consumers. Some do ask themselves, and some decide they...
View ArticleMeat of the Matter: Let me count the ways
In addition to the nutritional value of the food products and the economic value generated by animal agriculture, here are Seven Serious Reasons Why We Need Livestock.
View ArticleMeat of the Matter: A smoking pun
An extremist attack on meat comparing it to cigarettes isn’t anything new — but it’s not usually being mouthed by a prominent politician who claims to represent agricultural interests.
View ArticleMeat takes a victory against dietary guidelines
Meat scored a win this week when President Obama's administration did not urge American's to eat less meat, despite new dietary guidelines that encourage less meat eating in an effort to "save the...
View ArticleMeat of the Matter: Drink and tell
What happens when people go out drinking? I mean, other than the obvious. Turns out, they tend to abandon their vegetarian food preferences long before last call.
View ArticleWest Virginia grocery stores find ways to catch shoplifters
In a span of mere months, several grocery stories in Charleston, West Virginia caught four shoplifters trying to steal hundreds of dollars worth of meat. .
View ArticleSubway announces plans to eliminate antibiotics use in U.S. meat supplies
According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, Subway has announced a plan to eliminate antibiotic use in livestock that are not sick.
View ArticleProtein satisfies
Evidence keeps building that adequate animal protein in each meal satisfies hunger and decreases body weight.
View ArticleGermany's answer to WHO study: Don't be scared of sausages
Sausages, like sunshine, are beneficial in moderation, Germany's agriculture minister said on Tuesday, after a World Health Organization (WHO) report warned that eating processed meats can cause cancer.
View ArticleWHO tells world to chill
According to the World Health Organization, the outrage in response to a study linking processed meat consumption to cancer is a bunch of baloney – the report was simply “misinterpreted.”
View ArticleClueless in the classroom
Dairy industry takes up several initiatives to battle myths being perpetuated on some college campuses.
View ArticleMeat of the Matter: Mr. steak-a-day
Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh has generated a tsunami of online attention for saying that his vitamin of choice is USDA Choice. But is that really a good thing for the industry?
View ArticleJolley: Five minutes with IARC
The IARC committed an amazing rush to judgment not seen since the 2008 tomato crop was condemned by the CDC as the source of a salmonella outbreak before the all the facts were in. The real culprit was...
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