Meat & Poultry

A controversial agreement between the state of Montana and Ted Turner, involving the transfer of nearly 100 buffalo from Yellowstone National Park to the media mogul’s Montana ranch for an experimental breeding program, was a featured story in the New York Times recently. Turner, the founder of CNN, also has a national chain of restaurants that serve buffalo. …

Circumstances that made meat cheap the past two years did an about-face. Holiday barbecues will be a little more costly this summer. Too many animals and not enough people eating beef and pork was a good combination for consumers but bad for producers. Meat was a bargain; growers floundered. …

There’s something comforting about those huge chunks of chuck roast. It’s a common cut, and yet some of my fondest memories are tied to it, as my grandmother made one killer pot roast. Maybe it’s a primal Pavlovian response, causing a rush of endorphins to my brain upon seeing all that muscle and fat. …

It’s probably no surprise that Sir Paul McCartney, a longtime vegetarian, banned all meat from staff meals on his current world tour. But when Mario Batali starts to push people to eat their vegetables, you know something is happening. …

Higher raw meat costs for packers appears to be a long-term trend as Canadian hog farmers struggle to recover from money-losing operations, the head of a leading Canadian hog processor, Maple Leaf Foods said on Wednesday. …