meat

As beef prices rise, that steak on your plate shrinks

Apr 1, 2013

Beef is not 'what's for dinner' as often as it used to be, as price per pound rises. So butchers and restaurants are selling smaller portions.

Posted In: Food, meat, beef

Meat prices could rise if federal budget is sliced

Adriene Hill

Feb 28, 2013

Across-the-board furloughs would reduce the number of food inspectors, possibly affecting prices and supplies of meat.

Posted In: meat, USDA, Food

British food safety regulators ask: Where's the beef?

Stephen Beard

Feb 8, 2013

The British government has ordered the country’s food industry to test all processed beef products after some of the country's biggest food manufacturers have been finding horsemeat in their products.

Posted In: england, Food, food safety, meat

Donated deer meat falls at Georgia food banks

Jim Burress

Jan 22, 2013

Tough economy has more hunters keeping more of their take for themselves.

Posted In: donations, food banks, venison, deer, meat, hunting

Meat processors consider long-term outlook

Queena Kim

Aug 23, 2012

Hormel announces its earnings today. The company is the third-largest seller of meat, and with the drought and commodity prices rising, investors are looking for signs of the food industry's long-term outlook.

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Worried about climate change? Eat less meat.

Mark Bittman

Jul 30, 2012

Commentator Mark Bittman says industrial meat production accounts for at least one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions.

Posted In: meat, climate change

Meat theft on the rise in U.K.

Sarah Stolarz

Apr 24, 2012

In the U.K., meat theft is on the rise and it's not just hungry individuals -- we're talking fully-fledged organized crime gangs. And it doesn't stop at supermarket meat either.

Posted In: UK, Food, meat, theft