Up, down, up
Falling food prices will rise again soon, predicts an economic analyst
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December 12, 2008
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Where are the workers?
Even in this recession, the industry can't find enough workers
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December 12, 2008
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"A dangerous message"
Canadian cattlemen are losing C$1 million a day to COOL
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December 12, 2008
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Passing gas
The Farm Bureau says EPA wants to tax livestock as methane contributors to global warming, but NCBA says "not likely"
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December 5, 2008
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Is this little piggy going to market, or what?
Economists can't agree on a 2009 pork forecast
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December 5, 2008
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Girding for Armageddon
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is ready to fight unions to the death over card-check, but will the meat industry choose to fight in the war?
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December 5, 2008
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No more battles?
UFCW sees last week's union vote at JBS-Swift's Hyrum, Utah, beef plant as a possible harbinger for a new labor-management attitude
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November 26, 2008
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Texting turkey
Butterball takes turkey-roasting advice to the next generation
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November 26, 2008
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A new food safety threat?
"C. diff" could be "the next E. coli," says expert
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November 21, 2008
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Catastrophe avoided mostly
E. coli's recent surge in the beef supply could have been much, worse, says one scientist
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November 21, 2008
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Leaner Santa
Economists say it'll be an average holiday season for the meat and poultry market
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November 21, 2008
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Poop power
Cows in Vermont are plugging into the grid
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November 21, 2008
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The hunger next door
The meat and poultry industry renews its commitment to feeding hungry Americans.
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November 14, 2008
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The debate's in the mail
The pork industry and PETA exchange letters. But no one's a pen pal yet.
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November 14, 2008
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What now?
Speculating the industry's future in the Era of Obama.
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November 7, 2008
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Chicken Little finally gets it right
Commodity prices, including corn and feedgrains, are falling - but one economist warns against complacency
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October 31, 2008
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Shipping meat - or money?
A rising dollar doesn't float all boats
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October 31, 2008
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Is 2 too much?
What happens if California's controversial animal-welfare proposition passes next Tuesday?
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October 31, 2008
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An E. coli Holy Grail at last?
But what about the cost?
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October 24, 2008
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They don't believe us
A new consumer survey shows more worry about food safety than about the Iraq war
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October 24, 2008
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The bird finally falls
The Canadian dollar is declining in value, and Canadian producers couldn't be happier
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October 24, 2008
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Still on track
Tyson remains committed to biofuels
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October 17, 2008
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"Unfettered discretion"
The ailing Ontario pork industry makes a huge change
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October 17, 2008
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Actually, a big difference
Obama and McCain are on opposite sides of the ethanol debate
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October 17, 2008
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Cow and gown
A partnership in Kentucky brings locally grown beef to university students
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October 10, 2008
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What's the difference?
When it comes to agriculture and food policy, it's still difficult to tell the presidential candidates apart
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October 10, 2008
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Down so low
But is the price of corn low enough?
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October 10, 2008
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Ordering in
The foodservice market continues its slow decline
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October 10, 2008
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Pilgrim's prognosis
Analyst weighs in on the future of the troubled poultry giant
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October 3, 2008
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Are they truly willing to pay?
COOL's supporters say giving U.S. consumers what they're willing to pay for is at the heart of the controversial labeling scheme - but is that true?
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October 3, 2008
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New territory
Even the union is perplexed by the Muslim prayer-break issue
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September 26, 2008
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Loopholing through COOL
Activist agriculture groups say packers intend to violate spirit of country-of-origin labeling regulation, set to take effect on Sept. 30
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September 26, 2008
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Beef: tough times ahead
Packers squeezed in a vise between supply and demand, says analyst
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September 26, 2008
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The long and the short of it
FDA commissioner says tracing pathogen outbreaks to food sources still takes too long and that government needs better engagement with industry.
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September 26, 2008
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What goes up
Hog prices return to earth after a spike
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September 12, 2008
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COFCO's significant step
The huge Chinese company's investment in Smithfield Foods establishes a foothold in the U.S. industry
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September 12, 2008
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Russian ballet
The U.S.'s poultry trade with Russia dances on a political and diplomatic stage
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September 12, 2008
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Smithfield, Kraft: Do not send in the clones
New survey shows significant food industry opposition to foods derived from cloned animals
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September 5, 2008
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COOLing the divisions
A meeting to address Country of Origin Labeling brings some industry antagonists together
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September 5, 2008
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More, not less
Counter to USDA, NCBA says consumers show no sign of a decline in interest in nutrition labels
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September 5, 2008
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Reforming an "essential" of business
E-Verify proposals draw support and fire from the meat industry
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August 29, 2008
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The boom after the boom
A new report predicts rosy days ahead for global meat and agribusiness.
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August 29, 2008
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The Canadian watershed
Maple Leaf Foods' Listeria outbreak will bring changes north of the border.
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August 29, 2008
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They're on Candid Camera
In the wake of Hallmark-Westland, video surveillance becomes an element in the American Humane Certified program.
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August 29, 2008
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Bronze in Beijing, gold everywhere else
There's been a negative Olympic effect on U.S. pork exports to China, but pork is booming for the U.S. in most other markets
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August 15, 2008
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Ignoring the facts
A new USDA study indicates consumers are using nutrition-information panels less and less
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August 15, 2008
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Optimism in the ruins
The collapse of the Doha Round of WTO talks isn't necessarily bad news for U.S. meat exports
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August 11, 2008
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Bad - but not that bad
The South's heat wave is killing chickens by the hundreds but not the millions.
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August 8, 2008
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Animal welfare from the middle
Revisions to a Canadian animal-welfare law show a different way to control abuse.
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August 8, 2008
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Blackshirts and a constitutional crisis
Is the federal government going to war against employers? Or is just one employer to blame?
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August 1, 2008
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NR transparency it's a good thing
Bill Marler argues the industry has a lot to gain if inspection records are made public
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August 1, 2008
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A Kansas Yankee in Somerset Counties
A meat industry anthropologist roughs it in the English industry
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August 1, 2008
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Weeding the green
Too much "green" advertising is both ineffective and suspicious
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July 25, 2008
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More humane, please
A new supermarket survey finds one leader in retailing humanely farmed meat products -- and a lot of distant followers
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July 25, 2008
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The Pew on the Hill
Three months after its release, the Pew study on animal agriculture still influences discussion in Washington
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July 25, 2008
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Country-fried relief
Tyson's new partnership with Country Music Television will benefit America's Second Harvest
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July 25, 2008
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Get out...and stay out!
The Nebraska town where Hormel operates a plant wants to kick out illegal immigrants.
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July 18, 2008
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Testing vs. surveillance
A plan in Canada to reduce incentive payments for BSE testing draws fire.
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July 18, 2008
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A 75% shock
A leaked World Bank report that embarrasses the White House calculates ethanol's impact on global food prices
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July 11, 2008
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Serious justice
Anti-acquisition advocates see reason to hope the JBS-Smithfield/National deal will be altered by the DOJ
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July 11, 2008
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Welfare state
Animal-friendly hog production systems get attention in Canada and the U.S. following animal-abuse scandals
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July 11, 2008
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Room for growth
Meat exports keep providing good news for the U.S. industry but there's plenty of improvement still to be gained
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July 3, 2008
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Don't blame Chinese food
High U.S. corn prices have little to do with growing meat and poultry consumption in China, say analysts
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July 3, 2008
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Git yer red hots!
National Hot Dog Month is here
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July 3, 2008
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"Sleazy" association
HSUS hints that Caviness Packing is connected with animal abuse at a New Mexico auction but with no evidence.
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June 27, 2008
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Profiting from "overreaction"
Wall Street gets bullish on Tyson shares.
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June 27, 2008
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Iowa finally "a little like summer"
Sioux-Preme Packing forecasts a Midwestern recovery following devastating rain and floods.
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June 27, 2008
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Little boxes, little boxes
A new problem: too few shipping containers. U.S. meat exporters are feeling the crunch
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June 20, 2008
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Invading privacy and disrespecting religion too?
USDA loses a round in the animal I.D. battle
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June 20, 2008
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Office culture cuisine
Hormel surveys the workplace and comes up with a new line of products
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June 20, 2008
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Hi-Ho Silver?
The Farm Bureau ponders a federal silver bullet to shoot down skyrocketing commodity prices.
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June 13, 2008
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Tight lips
No one wants to talk about what's gone wrong with South Korea and U.S. beef.
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June 13, 2008
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To beta or not to beta
USDA learns a lesson in price reporting.
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June 6, 2008
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When it rains, it hurts
Wet weather in the Midwest is just more bad news in an already awful crop year.
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June 6, 2008
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Testing, testing
Once controversial, test-and-hold becomes AMI's latest cause with USDA.
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June 6, 2008
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U.S. beef and human rights
Amnesty International gets involved in the South Korea beef deal
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May 30, 2008
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Modified - but still "onerous"
The Farm Bill's COOL provisions will still be costly, but maybe the paperwork won't be so bad
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May 30, 2008
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The nice rice
USDA approval of stabilized rice bran for use in processed products could mean big savings for processors
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May 30, 2008
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A new mood
U.S. chicken looks like it'll be let back in to the E.U. Could U.S. beef be next?
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May 16, 2008
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Out of step with "mainstream American values"?
The Pew report on animal agriculture meets with cheers and jeers.
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May 16, 2008
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Crossing the line
U.S. pork has invaded Canada.
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May 16, 2008
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They're not anti-meat issues
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May 16, 2008
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Too little, too late?
AMI and NMA petition USDA to keep downers out of the meat supply.
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May 7, 2008
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Still expensive but not that expensive
Like other food prices, prices for organically grown foods, including meat and poultry, are going up, but just not as fast or as much.
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May 7, 2008
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Seekers, meet searchers
Meat Industry CareerLink brings together industry job seekers and employers
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May 7, 2008
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Drug war
Why Tyson will continue to fight for its "raised without antibiotics" label
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April 29, 2008
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Loose lips
Drought is devastating Australia's meat industry, wheat production -- even the "ANZAC trees
" or is it?
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April 29, 2008
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Excuses, excuses?
A new book criticizes the industry for its animal-handling but earns the wrath of vegetarians
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April 29, 2008
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