Last month, two of South Korea’s biggest retailers halted sales of US beef after the discovery of “mad cow” in the US. As a result, South Korean authorities said they will increase checks on beef imports from the US, where … Continue reading →

One of the latest brand names attempting to reel in the rapidly growing health-conscious consumer is Oscar Mayer. Tom Bick, Oscar Mayer’s marketing and advertising director, readily admits consumers are avoiding processed foods, and artificial preservatives. As a result, Kraft … Continue reading →

Writing for Forbes, journalist Larry Olmsted, who has written weekly columns for USA Today and Investors Business Daily, claims that if you think you’ve tasted the famous Japanese Kobe beef, you’re sadly mistaken, because you cannot get it in the … Continue reading →

According to a growing number of scientific studies [pdf], artificial food dyes contain human carcinogens, and are linked to adverse behavior in children. And yet every year, manufacturers release 15 million pounds or more of synthetic dyes into U.S. foods. … Continue reading →

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The social media uproar and an online petition that drew hundreds of thousands of supporters has forced Beef Products Inc., the maker of “Pink Slime”, to suspended operations at all but one plant. Beef Products will suspend operations at plants … Continue reading →

Last week a federal judge ordered the FDA to withdraw approval for the use of common antibiotics in animal feed because of fears that overuse is endangering human health by creating antibiotic-resistant “superbugs”. U.S. Magistrate Judge Theodore Katz ruled that … Continue reading →

Loving food is a complicated thing.  The amount of research that has to be done in order to eat sustainably, humanely and in a healthy (yet affordable) manner is overwhelming. This is why I love organizations such as Chaffin Family … Continue reading →

According to a new study, pesticide and antibiotic-free meat is NOT always free of dangerous drug-resistant microbe strains such as Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The antibiotic-resistant staph infection known as MRSA kills more Americans than AIDS, and is widespread in … Continue reading →

The 2010 Retail Meat Report from the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System has been released; the report monitors antibiotic resistance in animals, retail meat and people. The test results are based on 5,280 meat samples collected in 2010 in California, … Continue reading →

Mark Post, professor of physiology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, has been growing small strips of muscle tissue from a pig’s stem cells to make test-tube meat. Speaking at the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual … Continue reading →

Now that Food Revolution’s Jamie Oliver has succeeded in humiliating McDonald’s into terminating the use of that disgusting pink slime as the cornerstone for their pseudo hamburgers, McDonald’s released a statement claiming that at the beginning of last year they … Continue reading →

According to the Department of Agriculture, beef prices skyrocketed more than 10 percent last year, and are expected to soar even more. John Nalivka, owner of consulting firm Sterling Marketing, estimates prices could rise as much as another 10% — … Continue reading →

This is another of my grandmothers/mother’s recipes. Colombians use pretty much every part of the cow. When you go to the galeria (the farmer’s market) you will find all yummy parts that are unusual to people in the US: brain, … Continue reading →

The phrase “endangered species” is not unfamiliar to most of us. We’re constantly hearing about all sorts of animals in danger of being extinct because they are in such high demand that they are being hunted and killed by the … Continue reading →

Cows were made by nature to eat grass, but some years ago, some entrepreneurs got the brilliant idea of feeding them corn instead to fatten them up faster. Besides a faster turnover time, raising trough-fed cows also means that they … Continue reading →

All year, we have reported on the dangers of purchasing commercial ground beef. More than 70,000 Americans are sickened each year by E. Coli infections, and most are caused by contaminated hamburger. The latest E. coli outbreak linked to ground … Continue reading →