Meat Archive
Fresh Market Tries New Format in Winston-Salem
GREENSBORO, N.C. - The Fresh Market, a chain of almost 70 specialty groceries based here, has announced that it will open a new 20,000-square-foot format in Winston-Salem, N.C., featuring a center deli island, as well as an increased selection of prepared foods and a larger produce department, according to published reports. ...
Group Certifies FreshDirect's Sustainable Seafood
NEW YORK -- FreshDirect, an online fresh food grocer and delivery service based here, has been recognized by the Marine Stewardship Council as a purveyor of sustainable Alaska salmon, Pacific halibut and Pacific sablefish. ...
USDA-Certified Organic Salmon Faces Hurdles, Experts Say
WASHINGTON -- The National Organic Standards Board, the panel of experts officially appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture to assist the USDA in developing organic standards, has recommended that fish raised in open net cages and those using wild-caught fish in their diets should be permanently excluded from forthcoming USDA organic aquaculture standards. ...
Oscar Mayer Recall Expanded to 2.8 Million Pounds of Product
WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Kraft Foods contractor Carolina Culinary Foods has expanded its recall of cooked Oscar Mayer/Louis Rich chicken breast cutlets and strips based on additional sampling initiated by Kraft Foods and conducted at a non-government laboratory. ...
Marsh Rolls Out Beef Nutrition Labeling
INDIANAPOLIS -- Marsh Supermarkets has rolled out beef nutrition labeling to all its stores, all three banners, after a 16-week test run by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association was seen to lift beef sales and increase customer loyalty. ...
AMI: Clarification of Animal Cloning Needed
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Consumers need additional information to make them more comfortable with the idea of cloning food animals, and it's the industry's duty to give it to them via the consumer media, American Meat Institute officials told attendees at the Annual Meat Conference here this week. ...
Consumers Still Prefer to Buy Meat at Supermarkets: Study
ORLANDO, Fla. - While more consumers are shifting spending to supercenters, they still prefer to buy meat from supermarkets, Food Marketing Institute's Power of Meat 2007 research report shows. ...
Higher Meat Prices Predicted to Last
NEW YORK -- The soaring price of corn will present a major challenge for pork, chicken and beef producers for at least the next five years, leading to sustained increases in wholesale and retail prices, reduced production and flattened U.S. per capita consumption of meats during that time, predicted analysts in a conference call hosted by Wachovia Capital Markets this week. ...
Smithfield Phasing Out Gestation Stalls for Pigs
SMITHFIELD, Va. -- In a move praised by animal rights activists, Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork processor and hog producer, yesterday announced plans to phase out "gestation stalls" at all of its 187 U.S. sow farms over the course of the next decade, ultimately replacing the crates with animal-friendly group housing pens. ...
Bill Introduced to Require Cloned Food Labels
SAN FRANCISCO -- Legislators in California may soon decide how to treat food items made from cloned animals, regardless of U.S. regulators. ...
