Consumer Trends
By any other name
A pork butt is a pork butt, until it isn’t.
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Environmentalists talk beef
An ongoing debate in the environmental community revolves around the stance toward beef: Is it better to work on making beef production more environmentally friendly or devote their energies to convincing people that they shouldn’t be eating beef?
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Consumer Trends: Print your meat
A U.S. start-up company called Modern Meadow, based in Columbia, Mo., is hoping to create meat with a 3D bioprinter. It is gathering venture capital now.
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A Position on GMOs, modified
Among the opponents of genetically modified crops, Mark Lynas stood out as among the most vocal and the most strident.
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Fighting food miles
Calculating “food miles” — the distance a particular food item travels from the farm to the consumer — has become a kind of shorthand for a particular food’s “greenness,” at least in terms of its greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Entry strategies
It’s no secret that getting started in farming and ranching is only becoming more difficult as land prices soar; that’s a barrier to entry that proves insurmountable for many would-be food producers.
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Seeking Sustainability
In September, McDonald’s Corporation’s vice president of sustainability, Bob Langert, talked to Bloomberg News about his company’s efforts to pursue sustainability, a subject that he said “is everybody’s business now.”
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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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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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- 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
