Meat & Poultry

If an Orthodox rabbi hadn’t been injured at the Beltex packing plant on the north side last month, we might never have learned that the former horse slaughterhouse that already did a roaring business in wild pig, bison and ostrich now also processes kosher beef. …

U.S. cattle futures traded higher early on Tuesday as investors bet that a warm, rain-free holiday weekend over much of the United States had millions of Americans grilling beef steaks on backyard grills. …

Mark Schatzker, whose book “Steak: One Mans Search for the Worlds Tastiest Piece of Beef I have been reading and blogging about, takes issue with some of my points, and it seems only fair to grant him the same soapbox. …

AMI has released a new educational video outlining for consumers the nutritional requirements a cut of meat or poultry must meet to be labeled lean. …

Sanderson reported a net income of $35.1 million for the second fiscal quarter of 2010, as compared to $26.2 million of net income during the same period in fiscal 2009. Sanderson also said that the company is still considering Goldsboro as a possible new location for a $94 million big bird deboning plant that could employ about 1,100 workers. …