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Neigh… I mean, nay, I say!

By Alan Guebert March 25, 2013

The coincidence was positively delicious. Shortly after Swedish furniture seller Ikea found itself, shall we say, saddle deep in a saucy mess that featured racier red meat in its Swedish meatballs than you’d normally get from the average European cow, the USDA announced changes to its controversial country-of-origin labelling, or COOL, law for American meat.

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France finds horsemeat in beef imported via Netherlands

March 22, 2013

marseille, france / reuters / Horsemeat has been found in France in a shipment of 320 tonnes of meat labelled “pure beef” that was imported from eastern Europe via the Netherlands, a local prosecutor said March 15. The horsemeat, found during tests in the southeastern city of Cavaillon in meat intended for use in ready-made

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Poland shuts down plant on fears it resold outdated meat

By Reuters March 22, 2013

A local broadcaster showed footage of employees discussing plant practices A Polish meat plant shut down March 8 after veterinary officials said the company was selling products beyond their expiry date which had been cleared from store shelves. The General Veterinary Inspectorate said it carried out a survey of the Viola meat plant in northern

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Waiter! There’s a giraffe in my kudu

By Reuters March 16, 2013

Only three days after being told their hamburgers may in fact be donkey or water buffalo, South African meat lovers have been dealt another blow: biltong, the fabled dried-meat snack, may not be as “wild” as many packets suggest. Acting on a hunch — and four years before Europe’s horsemeat scandal broke —researchers at the

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Smithfield Foods third-quarter results beat Wall Street estimates

March 16, 2013

reuters / Smithfield Foods Inc., the largest U.S. hog producer, reported third-quarter results that beat Wall Street estimates, helped by higher sales of packaged meat products such as Smithfield bacon and Eckrich and Armour sausages. The company, which receives nearly half of its revenue from packaged meat, said higher demand from international markets, particularly from

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What’s in a catchy phrase? Plenty if the term is ‘pink slime’

By P.J. Huffstutter March 16, 2013

Lawyers for Beef Products Inc. say ABC’s characterization of lean finely textured beef made it  sound vile, but network says it’s an accurate term for a thick, slippery substance

A year ago, Beef Products Inc. had four state-of-the art plants, more than 1,300 employees and was expanding aggressively. The meat company was the leading maker of “lean finely textured beef,” a low-fat product made from chunks of beef, including trimmings, and exposed to tiny bursts of ammonium hydroxide to kill E. coli and other

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Empty handed but happy in Japan

By Alex Binkley March 16, 2013

While he had nothing new to announce at the end of his fourth trade mission to Japan, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz sounded jubilant in a news conference from Tokyo before he returned to Canada. He and a delegation of commodity groups met key Japanese politicians and business leaders. “We now have a clearer understanding of

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Cow-calf producers’ survival is still about production costs

By Kris Ringwall March 16, 2013

The times are good for prices, but cattle producers have a lot on their minds these days. Calving has started on many ranches, and the complicated production scenarios already are constantly churning for producers. Unfortunately, the dollars associated with many production scenarios often are in place well before adequate financial evaluations are done. The critical

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Survival comes before expansion in the beef cattle business

By Kris Ringwall March 16, 2013

What would you say if someone told you that 40 per cent of the cow-calf producers are struggling to justify being in the beef business? After all, the cattle business is a great business and currently humming along through great times. If that is true, why is the industry not expanding? Good question and certainly

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Truth and trust hit the dirt

By Laura Rance-Unger March 7, 2013

The ongoing horsemeat scandal crippling the European food industry brings several rather awkward questions to mind. First of all, what’s wrong with horsemeat? On the surface, nothing, except many of us, if given the choice, would prefer not to eat it. The problem is that people weren’t given the choice. In fact, they were lied

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