Dan Murphy
Commentary: More cardiac concern
Yet another researcher claims to have discovered why red meat causes heart disease—only the ‘culprit’ he fingered is an essential human nutrient. How can that be possible? Good question.
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Commentary: The ultimate vegan con
Like every activist group trapped in its own echo chamber, vegans love to issue edicts to the rest of us, but somehow, they never want to respond to any hard questions about their cult.
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Commentary: Scientific history lesson
Too often, we forget that what seems like contemporary crises—like the debate over global warming—are actually issues that generations of scientists have studied and analyzed.
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Commentary: Horse meat horses**t
It had to happen sooner or later: The fallout from the European horse meat scandal has officially reached ridiculous proportions with a recall that will (allegedly) confiscate 50,000 tons of beef.
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Commentary: Climate conversion
Can we have an enlightened conversation about climate change? Can I convince skeptics that, despite a lack of precision about its effects, we do indeed face a serious threat? Let me try.
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Commentary: Re-defining the idea of ‘exotic’
Take two countries—remarkably similar in geography, climate, history and heritage: Why does one eagerly embrace unusual animal foods, while the other is horrified by the very concept?
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Commentary: Where’s the horse sense?
For reasons that are more about public relations than agency priorities, FSIS announced that it will take bold steps to protect Americans from the horrors of eating European horse meat.
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Commentary: A new name game
It only took four decades, but the retail segment of the meat industry is finally rolling out new names for the once-mysterious cuts of pork and beef shoppers puzzled over in the meat case.
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Commentary: When the numbers deceive
USDA data seem to suggest that meat consumption in the USA is decreasing at an unheard-of pace. But behind the declining per capita consumption figure is a far more positive story.
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Commentary: Down Under delight
Is the USA ready for a new meat product launch? One that’s centuries old, sells incredibly well overseas and offers a tantalizing mix of flavor and nutrition? One entrepreneur says hell, yes!
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Commentary: Crying wolf
A proposed Washington state law would provide broad exemptions to rural residents to shoot the protected gray wolves re-introduced there—only it’s not ranchers who want to do the shooting.
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- YSA members gain insight into agribusiness, retail industries
- Meat industry associations quick to attack the new MCOOL rule
- Team up against bovine respiratory disease
- Oil prices pare losses on U.S. equities turnaround
- Future of food discussion with Agriculture Secretary
- Ag markets diverged prove rather volatile on Thursday
- Former Eastern Livestock CEO, CFO sentenced for federal crimes
- 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
- More beef cows in worst drought regions than a year ago
