Are You Eating Sustainable Fish? Blockchain May Provide The Answer

January 5, 2018 Jeff John Roberts, Fortune

Eco-conscious diners can rely on restaurants to tell them their fish comes from a sustainable source, but it can be hard to know for sure. That’s why a new certification system, launched by blockchain companyViant and the World Wild Fund for Nature, is intriguing: It provides a step-by-step way to verify a fish’s journey from the ocean to the market to the dinner plate.

Big New Seafood Processing Plant Planned For Seaport

January 5, 2018 Jon Chesto, Boston Globe

Don’t tell Eden Milroy that the local seafood industry is dying. Milroy is making a big bet on its future in Boston: a 200,000-square-foot seafood processing complex in the marine industrial park in South Boston.

Veal Can Be The Green Meat To Eat

As the calendar rolls over into 2018, Chef Colin Kelly is buying what a growing number of Maine farmers are selling: the notion that veal can be raised humanely and sustainably. In fact, veal proponents argue that if you regularly enjoy drinking milk and eating value-added dairy products – cheese, yogurt, ice cream – the green thing to do is also to consume a critical byproduct of the dairy industry: bull calves born to dairy cows.

Is 'Natural' Beef Label Misleading?

New research shows consumers not only misinterpret the label, they’re willing to pay significantly more for “natural” steak when they’re unfamiliar with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) definition. A petition to the USDA claims that natural labeling misleads consumers.

Hempler Foods Group Recalls Pepperoni Products

January 5, 2018 USDA FSIS

Hempler Foods Group, LLC, a Ferndale, Wash. establishment, is recalling approximately 4,068 pounds of pepperoni sticks products that may be contaminated with extraneous material, specifically metal, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced.