Consumer Trends
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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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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What consumers think
Determining what consumers want and what they think of your product is the challenge of every business and every industry; agriculture is no different.
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The food hub movement
In an article called “Five Food Predictions for 2012,” author Andrew Stout writes: “Networked food hubs are our future.” Which might cause you to ask: What’s a food hub?
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Consumer Trends: The filched filets
Filet mignon is one of the most frequently shoplifted items in this country, and its popularity as a stolen good seems to be on the rise.
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Before the fruitcake
Here’s a Christmas day menu to consider: 3,000 hens, 10,000 eels, 15,000 herrings and 400 hogs.
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Enter the cosmovores
The local-food movement has been gaining traction for years, and “locavore” and “100-mile diet” have become common parlance.
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Nose to Tail
Chef Fergus Henderson, owner of one of the most influential restaurants in the world and recipient of a coveted Michelin star, has made a name for himself by cooking offal.
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Some like it raw
In August, a year-long federal investigation culminated in the raid of a California natural-food market and the arrest of its owner. The alleged crime: the illegal production and sale of raw milk.
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Future fish
Now in its second decade, the battle over the genetically modified sal-mon — “Frankenfish” to some — continues.
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Fat comes back
For decades, it’s been nearly impossible to miss the message that fat is bad: The more we banished fat from our plates, the better off (thinner, healthier) we’d be.
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- Commentary: New rules un-COOL
- Former Eastern Livestock CEO, CFO sentenced for federal crimes
- TSCRA works with sale barns to catch Houston cattle thief
- More beef cows in worst drought regions than a year ago
- Post-tornado composting a solution for disposal of dead livestock
- NASA backs 3D food printer to feed growing population
