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‘Steaking’ out a patent
The meat scientist who brought us the petite tender and the flat iron steaks, Tony Mata, has done it again.
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Change for the Worse
If you’ve eaten one in the past few years, you probably noticed: Tomatoes today look good, but they taste bad. Or, more accurately, they don’t really taste like anything.
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Labeling GMOs
This November, California could become the first state to label foods containing genetically modified organisms.
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Coping with a rain-free zone
Natural disasters just sap the optimism out of everyone they touch. But drought can be especially cruel. It lingers for months, sometimes years. And recovery can take even longer.
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Legal battles loom with use of drones
Intelligence gathered by unmanned military drones significantly aided the mission of Navy Seal Team 6 when they stormed Osama bin Laden’s compound in Afghanistan last year.
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Making meat
Call it fake meat, meat analog or faux meat, there’s no denying there’s a market for meat-like products — in this country, a $340 million market.
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Celebrating our heritage and tradition
No industry in America celebrates the tradition and heritage of its past more than the cattle industry.
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Slimed
It may be lean, finely textured beef to some people, but it will always be pink slime to many more.
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Outraged, but not over pink slime
Years of food-safety research and development were flushed in a matter of days last month due to a media firestorm over an icky moniker attached to a beef product by a former USDA employee.
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Consumer Trends: Iowa’s law
Iowa has approved an “ag-gag” law, making it a crime to lie on a job application at an agricultural operation and gain entrance with the intent to commit an act not authorized by the owner.
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I'm a Drover: Broad perspective, local marketing
Young rancher finds a niche producing beef for local consumers.
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- Post-tornado composting a solution for disposal of dead livestock
- Michigan hay buyers should plan purchases early
- Seven jobs more dangerous than farming
- New animal identification rules aid disease traceability
- Former Eastern Livestock CEO, CFO sentenced for federal crimes
- Drought losses in Oklahoma top $400 million for 2012
