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Another media company under the microscope with 'pink slime' defamation trial

Jun 5, 2017
Beef Products Inc. has filed a nearly $6 billion lawsuit against ABC.
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Grilling beef today? Read this.

May 30, 2016
New labeling requirements from the USDA are a reminder to cook meat thoroughly.
Tenderizing meat can introduce bacteria into its center.
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The sizzling bison market in North Dakota

Jan 5, 2016
A look at bison auctions and the high demand for this lean meat.

Chipotle goes GMO-free, except for the meat

Apr 27, 2015
Animals raised on a GMO-free diet are too hard to come by.

Call it 'protein', not 'meat'

Jun 12, 2014
Protein is the food buzzword that sells.

PODCAST: Obamacare's youth movement

Apr 18, 2014
Japan and the U.S. are having beef over the price of meat. And, the fight between TV broadcasters and Aereo goes to the Supreme Court.

For public good, not for profit.

Cheap meat: You know you want it

Dec 12, 2013
Author and historian Maureen Ogle dives headfirst into the history of American meat production in her new book "In Meat We Trust."

Where's the beef (from)?

Nov 22, 2013
New rules say that meat must be labeled with where the animal it came from was born, raised, and slaughtered.

A pork-filled deal between Smithfield and Shuanghui, but who wins?

May 29, 2013
In what would be the largest Chinese takeover of an American company, Shuanghui proposes a $4.7 billion purchase of Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork producer.