Month: October 2010

The newly released results of the 2010 National Meat Case Study (NMCS) reveal significant changes in the retail meat case as retailers responded to evolving consumer needs since the last study took place in 2007. …

A Union City, Tenn., pork company violated federal law when it engaged in race discrimination by paying an African-American maintenance worker less than others and subjecting him to a hostile work environment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed September 30, 2010. The EEOC also charged that Williams Country Sausage forced him out of his job. …

Walk into any local Hispanic grocery store and head straight for the back counter. That’s where you’ll find a product that sets these stores apart from your typical chain grocers: Chorizo, which is a specialty sausage made from the butcher’s own recipe. …

In an open letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsak, Mark Legan, pork producer from Coatesville, Indiana, and chairman of NPPC’s Competitive Markets Committee, has a suggestion for the Secretary. Legan writes: if you really want to entice people back to the rural lifestyle and increase competition in the livestock industry, scrap the Grain, Inspection and Packers and Stockyards Administrations proposed rule and start over. Legan says the regulations – will result in government, not producers, deciding how livestock are bought and sold in this country. …