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The meat of the matter in making sausage

Workshop at Food Development Centre helps both professionals  and amateurs learn the craft of sausage making

By Lorraine Stevenson February 19, 2015

Otto Von Bismarck famously once said, “Laws are like sausages; it is better not to see them being made.” But the Prussian statesman wasn’t in the sausage-making business. Those who are, or simply experimenting at home with new methods, ingredients or recipes, need to know — and seeing is believing. That’s what drew 15 participants

Beef cattle, Opinion

Editorial: Winning at the WTO for real

By Laura Rance-Unger November 3, 2014

Canadian livestock producers won something to crow about but little else in the latest WTO ruling to support their claim that the U.S. mandatory country-of-origin labelling rules are unfair and discriminatory. The ruling was accompanied by the now-familiar volley of press releases from Canadian livestock and meat producers, and more sabre-rattling by federal politicians about

Beef cattle, Livestock

Meat processors applaud tenderized beef labelling

But they say ground beef should also carry cautionary labels

By Alex Binkley June 4, 2014

Meat processors are welcoming Health Canada’s regulations for mandatory cooking advisory labels on all mechanically tenderized beef (MTB) products but wonder why retailers aren’t required to put similar labels on ground beef packages. Jim Laws, president of the Canadian Meat Council, said in an interview the department’s MTB labelling order, which comes into effect Aug.

Beef cattle, Livestock

CFIA flubs food failure followup

By Alex Binkley December 4, 2013

Canada’s auditor general has identified weaknesses in how the Canadian Food Inspection Agency manages recalls of contaminated foods and its followups with processors to prevent further incidents. “While illnesses were contained in the recalls we examined, I am not confident that the system will always yield similar results,” Auditor General Michael Ferguson said in his

The draft code for care of pigs in Canada says long-term stays in gestation crates should be phased out.

Hogs, Livestock, News

New pig care code brings change

By Shannon VanRaes June 5, 2013

The much anticipated draft Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Pigs released by the National Farm Animal Care Council signals change is coming to the industry’s use of sow gestation stalls and other herd management practices such as castration. “In well-managed and -designed housing systems, it is possible to achieve equal or

Hogs, Livestock, News

COOL damage pegged at $2 billion for pork alone

By Shannon VanRaes January 30, 2013

Canada could retaliate if the U.S. fails to comply with COOL ruling,  but expert says picking a fight with your neighbour requires serious thought

It’s illegal under international trade rules and is estimated to have cost producers billions in lost sales, but Canada doesn’t have a lot of options for ending the pain caused by the American country-of-origin labelling (COOL) legislation. A recent report by the Canadian Pork Council estimates the sector has lost nearly $2 billion in revenue

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, News

Exporters must deal with zero tolerance for ractopamine

January 4, 2013

Reuters — Canada is not developing new tests for the feed additive ractopamine in beef and pork exports to Russia, says Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. He said Ottawa is leaving it to shippers to take their own steps to satisfy the new Russian requirement for zero residue. The Canada Pork International marketing group said the

Beef cattle, Crops, Hogs, Livestock, News, Weather

U.S. drought heading from croplands to the meat counter

By P.J. Huffstutter, Theopolis Waters September 22, 2012

The worst drought to hit U.S. cropland in more than half a century could soon leave Americans reaching deeper into their pockets to fund a luxury that people in few other countries enjoy: affordable meat. Drought-decimated fields have pushed grain prices sky high, and the rising feed costs have prompted some livestock producers to liquidate

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, News, Other livestock

Study says U.S. and Canada should integrate meat rules

June 16, 2012

Reuters / The United States and Canada should integrate meat regulation and head off a dispute over meat labelling that has landed before the World Trade Organization (WTO), a study by two research organizations said June 6. A U.S. law that took effect in 2009 requires grocers to put labels on cuts of beef, pork,

Livestock, News

Processors fear added costs with meat inspection

By Shannon VanRaes June 8, 2012

A pending change to meat inspection in the province is raising concerns. The current agreement between the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the province officially expires June 15, although the CFIA has agreed to continue to oversee inspections until the end of 2013 when the province will take over. (The change doesn’t affect federally registered

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

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Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

Tag Archives meat processors — page 2

The meat of the matter in making sausage

Editorial: Winning at the WTO for real

Meat processors applaud tenderized beef labelling

CFIA flubs food failure followup

New pig care code brings change

COOL damage pegged at $2 billion for pork alone

Exporters must deal with zero tolerance for ractopamine

U.S. drought heading from croplands to the meat counter

Study says U.S. and Canada should integrate meat rules

Processors fear added costs with meat inspection

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