Consumer Trends
The butcher’s back
These days, butchery is cool. Small butcher shops are making a comeback, more chefs are learning to cut up whole animals and consumers are thronging to classes on how to break down a carcass.
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Beyond the grade
Many consumers, standing in the meat aisle looking for a delicious piece of beef, rely on the guidance of the USDA grade.
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Looking at lunch
In 1946, researchers concluded that many young men were rejected by draft boards prior to World War II because of physical problems stemming from inadequate childhood nutrition.
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Taste’s Fifth Dimension
The humble meatball is 2010’s Dish of the Year, according to Bon Appetit magazine — a prediction that happens to fit nicely with the trends foretold on many other food-related Web sites, which call for this to be the year that umami finally becomes a household word.
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As Seen on TV
Ads aiming to sell food and beverages to children need more regulation.
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Food fights and meat matters
From Michael Pollan books to Eric Schlosser movies to an accumulation of undercover animal abuse videos, agriculture has been getting a lot of media attention recently, most of it negative.
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Irradiation considerations
Food safety — particularly beef safety — is front-page news once again, in the wake of a New York Times article about a woman left paralyzed by an E.coli infection that came from a tainted hamburger.
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The Green Revolution continues
In September, Norman Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution, the movement that created bumper agricultural crops in the poorest countries, died.
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An organic debate
Organic foods are no more nutritious than those grown convention-ally — that’s according to the recently released results of a study by the U.K.’s Food Standards Agency, based on collected research from the last 50 years.
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Beef won’t float your boat
Now taking its place alongside the notion of a carbon footprint as an issue of major environmental concern is a term you may expect to hear more in the future: a water footprint.
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Freeing the chickens
In England, cage-free-egg sales have now surpassed conventional-egg sales.
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- Post-tornado composting a solution for disposal of dead livestock
- Cornell genetic testing process cuts cost by up to 75 percent
- Angus Foundation receives $28,500 from “The Card Challenge”
- Commentary: In praise of animal foods
- 100K Pathogen Genome Project maps first genomes
- Beef exports depend on quality reputation
- Michigan hay buyers should plan purchases early
- New animal identification rules aid disease traceability
- Corn planting pace turns from record slow to record fast
- Survey reveals most Americans in favor of COOL
- U.S. cattle placements rise in April as feed costs subside
- Seven jobs more dangerous than farming
