Month: July 2017

Can a simple antioxidant bring more sizzle to American’s love affair with bacon? Kansas State University researchers think so, and they’re setting off on a project to figure it all out. …

Marel has agreed to acquire Sulmaq, a Brazilian meat primary processing equipment provider. The aim is to strengthen Marel’s position in Central and South America and ensure better access to a large and growing market for beef and pork. Sulmaq’s annual revenue is around 25 million. The acquisition is expected to close in the third quarter of 2017, subject to customary closing conditions. In the short term, the acquisition is not expected to have material impact on Marel’s financial results. …

Whether you like them hot and spicy, sticky sweet or plain Jane and whether your prefer them served with blue cheese, plum sauce or celery sticks, chicken wings have to be the most versatile protein on the planet. Americans have been attesting to this fact, gobbling up wings by the boat-load with more than 27 billion eaten in 2013 and 1.23 billion wings consumed during Super Bowl weekend alone. That’s over 100-million pounds of wings. To give you some idea of what that looks like picture the chicken wings laid out end to end — they’d circle the perimeter of the Earth not once but twice! …