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meat stories: 41 news summaries

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GLOSSIES

 Cured for What Ails You 

Chefs, diners can't get enough of salty beef and pork salumi

Sep 10, 08 4:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Move over, fancy cheese, there's a new kid in town. Cured meat—salumi is the catchall term—is the latest foodie obsession, JJ Goode writes in Details. Salumi ranges from the familiar—think salami and prosciutto—to the more obscure like bresaola, cured beef made by artisans who "rub... More »

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cooking • meat • restaurant • Mario Batali • top chefs • salumi • prosciutto • salami • bresaola

 Whale Meat Makes 
 Comeback in Iceland 

Sellers aim to introduce dish to youth market

Sep 2, 08 9:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Illegal for two decades, whale meat is back on menus in Iceland, and entrepreneurs are hoping to turn young people on to its charms, the Wall Street Journal reports. The food is reminiscent of beef, but costs only half as much—perhaps a mark in its favor for the young.... More »

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food • Japan • whale • meat • Iceland • whaling

GLOSSIES

Would-Be Butcher Tackles Meaty Issues

Dealing with people as important as wielding cleaver, writer finds

Aug 28, 08 11:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tom Chiarella had the perfect customer-butcher relationship—the shop near his home gave him good meat and good advice. But he wanted more. He wanted, as he writes in Esquire, to live on the other side of the counter, "to be a guy with answers." So his Indianapolis... More »

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meat • Esquire • Tom Chiarella • butcher

ANALYSIS

Producers Quick to Pass Price Hikes Down Food Chain

Pricier grain, energy make everything more expensive, from cereal to meat

Aug 8, 08 1:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Soaring grain and energy costs are driving food prices skyward, and big producers are moving to pass price hikes down the food chain to consumers on everything from cereal to meat, the Wall Street Journal reports. And costs won’t likely decrease, with biofuel demand eating up more corn than... More »

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meat • recession • General Mills • food prices • grain • agricultural economy • corn shock • energy costs • food production

OPINION

Farm Boy Mulls What's Good for Goose, Gander

As California considers cage ban, Kristof looks at animal rights

Jul 31, 08 9:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Californians go to the polls in November with a high-profile ballot initiative to decide: whether to ban factory farms from raising livestock in small cages. For Nicholas D. Kristof, it's an apt moment to consider our transforming attitudes toward animal welfare. The Oregon farm boy turned New York Times columnist... More »

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meat • animal cruelty • animal rights • cage free • farm

 How to Cut Back on Meat 

NYT provides advice on changing your diet

Jun 11, 08 9:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Curbing the meat craving can be a challenge in a culture that sees it as the main course—so Mark Bittman offers seven ways to ease the shift in the New York Times:
  1. Don’t worry about protein. By varying your veggies, you can get the amino acids
... More »

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food • cooking • meat • vegetables • vegetarianism

 3 Steps to a
 Perfect Steak 

Pick good charcoal, time carefully, and jab with your thumb

Jun 8, 08 1:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Just in time for grilling season, Esquire serves up tips on making the perfect steak.
  1. Choose charcoal wisely: Hardwood charcoal burns hotter, which is great for the grill. You want to sear the meat, so wait until the flames have calmed before tossing in steaks.
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steak • meat • cook • summer • barbecue

Strawberry Fields Forever, Sir Paul Pleads

Former Beatle extols vegetarianism as cure for global warming

Apr 21, 08 3:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - If you want to fight global warming, drop the hamburger, Sir Paul McCartney advises. “The biggest change anyone could make in their own lifestyle would be to become vegetarian,” said McCartney, himself a longtime herbivore. Livestock is a big contributor to global warming, the ex-Beatle says, because of... More »

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climate change • environment • Paul McCartney • global warming • meat • PETA • vegetarianism

PETA Offering $1M Prize for Test Tube Meat

Animal-rights group nearly splinters over research reward

Apr 21, 08 10:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - PETA is offering a $1 million reward to the first researchers who can figure out a commercially viable artificial meat-production system, the New York Times reports. Scientists have been working on in vitro meat for years, hoping to grow edible tissue cultures that could replace slaughtered livestock. But there was... More »

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food • science • meat • PETA • in vitro meat

Pork Workers Contract New Nerve Disease

Weakness, fatigue, numbness linked to pig-brain removal

Apr 17, 08 2:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pork-plant workers in three states have contracted an unheard-of neurological disorder linked to removing pigs’ brains, Reuters reports. Some 24 people—most from Minnesota—are experiencing symptoms including inflamed spinal cords, weakness, fatigue, and numbness and tingling in the limbs. “As far as we are aware it is a... More »

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health • meat • neurological disorder • nerves • pork

 UK Pig Farmers Squeal Poverty 

As high feed costs drive losses, protests seek higher pork prices

Mar 26, 08 10:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Floundering British pig farmers are on the march behind a curious protest song: "Stand by Your Ham." With feed prices soaring, UK farmers say they're losing $50 on every pig they sell, so they’re begging anyone who’ll listen to support higher pork prices, reports the Wall ... More »

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meat • pig • farmer • Britain • pork • feed prices

Meat Industry Pushes for
Recall Cutback

School lunch programs received big chunk of problematic beef

Feb 22, 08 1:08 PM CST
(Newser) - The meat industry is trying to convince the USDA to ease up on the largest meat recall in the country's history, the Wall Street Journal reports. Government officials entertained the possibility of exempting products made up only partly of the recalled beef but apparently decided against relaxing the action.... More »

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meat • USDA • beef recall • Westland/Hallmark Meat Co.

Meat Safety at Risk, Warn Overwhelmed Inspectors

Sick cows are slipping by and workers are fooling inspectors

Feb 22, 08 5:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Government inspectors say staff shortages are making it impossible for them to do their jobs properly and that sick cows could be getting into the food supply, reports AP. With staffing levels so low, inspectors are forced to quickly scan hundreds of animals to spot signs of illness like drooping... More »

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cattle • beef • meat • inspection • slaughterhouse

Picky Eater Decodes the Beef Scare

What goes into a 99¢ burger can
be pretty unpleasant, author Pollan says

Feb 20, 08 5:53 PM CST
(Newser) - Don't fault slaughterhouse workers for this week's enormous beef recall, author and foodie Michael Pollan tells Newsweek—it's the system. Blinding-fast production lines that expect workers to slaughter up to seven cows per minute do not a safe or ethical steak make. "It's one of those episodes that peels... More »

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meat • cows • Humane Society • Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. • slaughterhouse • Michael Pollan • Department of Agriculture • farmers markets

US Scrutinizes Calif. Meat Packer

Video raises questions about safety of school food supply

Jan 31, 08 2:54 PM CST
(Newser) - The US Department of Agriculture is looking into a California meat distributor following the release of a video showing animal abuse at a Chino slaughterhouse, the Los Angeles Times reports. Westland Meat was immediately suspended from its contract to provide beef to federal school lunch programs because of its practice... More »

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meat • mad cow disease • federal school lunch program

Top Chefs Meet Their Meat

Jamie Oliver and friends work for better treatment of the animals they cook

Jan 16, 08 4:08 PM CST
(Newser) - Top chefs are trying to change the way we eat by calling attention to how animals are raised for meat. In Britain, Jamie Oliver killed a chicken on live television, and supermarkets across the UK sold out of free-range chickens and eggs. The New York Times reports it’s part... More »

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food • agriculture • meat • chef • animal rights • Jamie Oliver

FDA: Send in the Clones

Agency finds no health effects, loss of nutritional value

Jan 15, 08 1:06 PM CST
(Newser) - Clones are just as safe to eat as any other animal, concludes a much-awaited, much-debated report from the FDA. Cloned animals studied were found to be as healthy as their normal counterparts, and their meat contained equal levels of nutrients, the Washington Post reports. The 968-page document provides mountains of... More »

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food • FDA • milk • meat • cows • cloning

Cloned Meat, Milk Near Nod

FDA is about to approve clones, despite industry opposition

Jan 4, 08 6:45 AM CST
(Newser) - The Food and Drug Administration is expected to clear the way for milk and meat from cloned animals to be sold in US supermarkets by declaring the products safe as early as next week, reports the Wall Street Journal. Cloning companies are poised to begin churning out animals once a... More »

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European Union • meat • Whole Foods • cloning • dairy products • biotech companies • ViaGen Inc. • Trans Ova Genetics • Dean Foods • The Food Marketing Institute • Grocery Manufacturers Association • Hormel Foods Corp. • American Meat Institute

Meat Can be Tough on the Environment

Steaks do more damage than driving; cow farts also a problem

Jul 19, 07 6:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Four average-sized steaks generate as much greenhouse gas as an ordinary car traveling for 3 hours at 50mph. The meat also chews up 169 megajoules of energy, enough to light a 100-watt bulb for 20 days. These were among the findings of Japanese scientists investigating the effects of beef production... More »

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climate change • cattle • global warming • Japan • beef • meat • cows • methane • steaks • megajoules • Japanese • carbon emissions

'Eco-Kosher' Eating Joins Religion, Ethics

New rabbinical food certification will reflect expanding values

Jul 7, 07 11:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ancient Jewish dietary laws meet contemporary concerns about how food is produced in what the Washington Post calls the "eco-kosher" movement. American Jews are increasingly concerned about  labor standards, treatment of animals, and ecological impact of what goes on their table, even if they don't keep kosher, and religious... More »

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food • ethics • agriculture • organic food • Jews • religion • meat • kosher

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