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FLOUNDERING CHAIN

 How Arby's Lost Its Beefiness 

Don't blame recession: fast-food chain just isn't trying

5 hours, 37 minutes ago
(Newser) - The recession has had its winners and losers, and when it comes to fast food, Arby's is bringing up the rear. Same-stores sales have been down for the last seven quarters, writes Daniel Gross for Slate, but the economy can't take the entire rap on this one: Arby's just doesn't... More »

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McDonald's • beef • fast food • fast food industry • Arby's

IT'S OK AGAIN DEPT.

 You Not Only Can 
 Eat New Veal, 
 You Should  

Pasture-raised version of other, other white meat draws new fans

Oct 28, 09 11:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Some conscientious objectors to eating veal are not only reconsidering their stance, they are doing an about-face. The new hot product at top restaurants is “humanely raised” veal—calves no longer wrenched from their mothers and raised in cages, but brought to slaughter after an idyllic, if short, life... More »

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Iraq • food • beef • cows • eating • farm • rose veal • ethical • humane • pasture

INVESTIGATION

 Ground Beef Rife 
 With E. Coli Risk 

NYT investigation shows industry practices that leave lots to be desired

Oct 4, 09 8:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - A nausea-inducing feature in the New York Times tells you more than you wanted to know about what's actually in commercially produced hamburger, and why it's especially vulnerable, despite FDA regulation and several fatal outbreaks in recent years, to E. coli contamination. The Times follows the case of a 22-year-old... More »

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food • E. coli • food contamination • beef • USDA • ground beef • slaughterhouse • hamburger

Calif. Plant Recalls Ground Beef on Salmonella Fears

Colorado department of health

Aug 6, 09 3:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - A California meatpacking plant has issued a recall for 800,000 pounds of ground beef it fears may be tainted with salmonella, the Los Angeles Times reports. The ground beef from Beef Packers, Inc. is sold under various retail names in California, Arizona, Colorado and Utah. The recall came after... More »

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food poisoning • California • beef • illness • salmonella • ground beef

(Newser) - Hold the sauce—and the beef. Burger King has apologized to Hindus following a firestorm of controversy over the chain's use of the multi-limbed goddess Lakshmi in a Whopper ad, reports the Telegraph. Burger King immediately yanked the ads from outlets in Spain after Hindus complained that it denigrated their... More »

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beef • Hindu • advertisements • Lakshmi • Hindu goddess • Burger King • Whopper • mayonnaise

(Newser) - McDonald’s will roll out its deluxe Angus burger nationwide later this year, the Chicago Tribune reports. Until now, the one-third-of-a-pound burger made with premium beef has been available only in a handful of test markets. Though the fast-food chain has said publicly it would delay the launch until... More »

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McDonald's • beef • fast food • franchise • product launch • Angus burger • restaurant chain • hamburger

Wayward Bull Steers
Into Supermarket

Where's the beef?

Apr 26, 09 7:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - A wayward bull nearly locked horns with employees as it slipped through sliding glass doors and raced up aisles in a supermarket in Ireland, reports the Guardian. The animal, which escaped from a nearly outdoor market, butted a shopping cart that workers used to try to corral him, and chased... More »

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beef • meat • bulls • Ireland • supermarket • animal • butcher

(Newser) - A 5-year, $53 million project has resulted in the sequencing of the cow genome, the Houston Chronicle reports. The results will likely take the guesswork out of breeding, but also mark the end of big-money sequencing projects. “It was pretty dumb to do the cow for $50 million when... More »

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milk • beef • cows • genes • genome • Baylor University • scientific research • sequencing

Eating Red Meat Daily
Raises Death Risk: Study

Experts say cutting red meat consumption could save many lives

Mar 24, 09 3:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Daily consumption of red meat has been linked to higher mortality rates in the most comprehensive study on the subject ever made, the Washington Post reports. Researchers studied more than 500,000 middle-aged and elderly Americans and found that those who consumed 4 ounces of red meat a day were... More »

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cancer • heart disease • beef • meat • diet • fish • red meat • poultry • pork • meat consumption

(Newser) - The recession has consumers foregoing pricey beef and pork for cheaper chicken, the chairman of grocery chain Safeway tells Bloomberg. “We’re seeing more shifts in the meat category to cheaper meats—ground beef and chicken—than we saw earlier in the year,” Steven Burd says, part of... More »

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beef • recession • ground beef • chicken • pork • meat and poultry

 As Milk Prices Sour, 
 Cows Head 
 to Slaughter 

Farmers can't afford to keep them

Feb 16, 09 9:17 AM CST
(AP) - Hundreds of thousands of America's dairy cows are being turned into hamburgers because milk prices have dropped so low that farmers can no longer afford to feed the animals. Dairy farmers say they face a perfect storm of destructive economic forces: At home, feed prices are rising and consumers... More »

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milk • beef • cows • consumer prices • farmers • recession depression

 Bush's Cheesy War 
 Cuts French Farmers 

Massive tariff amounts to ban on Roquefort

Jan 29, 09 8:37 AM CST
(Newser) - On its way out the door, the Bush administration essentially banned France’s prized Roquefort cheese from US shelves with a 300% tariff. The move was a tit-for-tat after the EU banned the import of US beef containing hormones, said a US trade rep. But residents of the cheese-dependent Roquefort... More »

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Bush administration • European Union • France • beef • cheese • tariffs

 On Green Menu: Roos & Camels 

Studies say beef emits greenhouse gases

Jan 5, 09 5:34 AM CST
(Newser) - Australians are being advised to save the planet by eating kangaroos and camels. A study of Australia's 1 million wild camels, descendants of camels imported as pack animals, recommends that their numbers be culled by hunting them for food, AFP reports. A separate study suggests that kangaroos be farmed... More »

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cattle • Australia • farming • beef • methane • camels • sheep • greenhouse-gas emissions • kangaroos • Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Center


 Where's the Beef?
 Being Butchered 
 in the Kitchen 

To get the best cuts and top quality, more chefs go DIY

Oct 1, 08 1:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - Brooklyn eatery Marlow & Sons gets its pork by the pig and beef by the half-ton steer, and it's not alone in its whole-hog approach. A growing number of restaurants are sidestepping industrial meat all together, instead butchering entire carcasses right on the premises. There's some of the old "... More »

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beef • meat • Brooklyn • restaurant • pig • locally grown food • butcher

GLOSSIES

 How This Tastes to a Vegetarian 

Scribe's first steak in 22 years 'absolutely delicious'—until brain, stomach revolt

Aug 31, 08 12:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - The embarrassment for a cow in being a meal for a human one-fifth its size is among the reasons AJ Jacobs doesn’t eat meat. “If my body ended up as brunch for some badger or dachshund, I know I'd be pissed,” he writes in Esquire. But that... More »

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food • beef • steak • red meat • vegetarianism • Esquire

GLOSSIES

 Steak: More Than  
 Meats the Eye 

Esquire provides the basics, from grades to cooking times

Aug 29, 08 3:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - There's more to a mouthwatering steak than meets the eye. So Esquire offers some tips and terms every steak lover should know before a Labor Day meat-fest:
  • Types of beef: Grass-fed: "Healthier but ... less flavorful than corn-fed." Heritage: "Rare heirloom breeds ... without the hormones or
... More »

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cooking • beef • steak • list • Esquire

GLOSSIES

 Wagyu: 'the Hummer of Beef'

Esquire taste tests extravagant $130-per-pound meat

Aug 25, 08 7:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Wagyu beef, a Japanese tradition catching on in the US, uses cows “bred so that fat corrupts the striations of every muscle,” Tom Junod writes in Esquire. After sampling some at $130 per pound, Junod ponders how Americans can be attracted to such excess. Despite America's ecological awakening,... More »

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Japan • beef • delicacy • slaughterhouse • Esquire • opinion • Wagyu beef

Bush Warns Korea on Nukes

In Seoul, tells North
to follow through or
be 'most sanctioned regime in world'

Aug 6, 08 6:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush urged North Korea to keep its pledge to end its nuclear program ahead of a looming American deadline, reports Bloomberg. Speaking in Seoul alongside South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Bush said that Pyongyang must either "verifiably do what you say you are going to do, or you'll... More »

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North Korea • South Korea • Seoul • beef • Axis of Evil • nuclear disarmament • Lee Myung-bak • George W. Bush

 US, S. Korea Reach Beef Deal 

Imported US meat must come from cattle younger than 30 months

Jun 21, 08 10:46 AM CDT
(AP) - All US beef imported into South Korea will come from cattle less than 30 months old, officials said today, in a deal made to placate South Korean protesters worried about mad cow disease. Nonetheless, thousands of protesters returned to the streets of Seoul, calling for a complete renegotiation of an... More »

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South Korea • business • beef • US exports • imported food • beef industry • food industry

S. Korean Cabinet Offers to Resign Over US Beef Imports

Cabinet offers resignation as 1m prepare to march

Jun 10, 08 6:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - The entire South Korean government has offered to resign in the face of a popular protest triggered by the lifting of import restrictions on US beef. The Korean government withdrew a ban introduced to prevent mad cow disease, setting off demonstrations expected to bring a million people onto the streets... More »

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South Korea • beef • protests • mad cow disease • Lee Myung-bak • beef industry

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