http://www.cattlenetwork.com/drovers/columns/consumer-trends RSS Feed for Consumer Trends en-us Wed, 15 May 2013 10:15:00 GMT http://www.cattlenetwork.com/drovers/columns/consumer-trends/By-any-other-name-207248071.html A pork butt is a pork butt, until it isn’t. http://www.cattlenetwork.com/drovers/columns/consumer-trends/Environmentalists-talk-beef-202341641.html 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? http://www.cattlenetwork.com/drovers/columns/consumer-trends/Consumer-Trends-Print-your-meat-195651111.html 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. http://www.cattlenetwork.com/drovers/columns/consumer-trends/A-Position-on-GMOs-modified-190719881.html Among the opponents of genetically modified crops, Mark Lynas stood out as among the most vocal and the most strident. http://www.cattlenetwork.com/drovers/columns/consumer-trends/Fighting-food-miles-186207861.html 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. http://www.cattlenetwork.com/drovers/columns/consumer-trends/Entry-strategies-182205221.html 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. http://www.cattlenetwork.com/drovers/columns/consumer-trends/Seeking-Sustainability-179158231.html 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.” http://www.cattlenetwork.com/drovers/columns/consumer-trends/Steaking-out-a-patent-173753961.html The meat scientist who brought us the petite tender and the flat iron steaks, Tony Mata, has done it again. http://www.cattlenetwork.com/drovers/columns/consumer-trends/Change-for-the-Worse-169219496.html 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. http://www.cattlenetwork.com/drovers/columns/consumer-trends/Labeling-GMOs-166013756.html This November, California could become the first state to label foods containing genetically modified organisms.