Meat & Poultry

A new study from the Harvard School of Public Health suggests that the heart risk long associated with red meat comes mostly from processed varieties such as bacon, sausage, hot dogs and cold cutsand not from steak, hamburgers and other non-processed cuts. …

The availability of Canadian lamb has improved over the years. Once found only at the farm gate or specialty butcher shop, it’s now available at the supermarket. …

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. has an appetite for fast cars and good food and the two will come together when the Nationwide Series hits the track at Daytona International Speedway on Friday, July 2, 2010. Roush Fenway Racing has announced that Stenhouses No. 6 Ford Mustang will feature Blackwell Angus beef as a sponsor of the first-ever NASCAR race for the muscle car. …

Meat prices are on the rise, thanks largely to a double whammy last year of high costs and low demand. Wholesale beef prices are up about 15 percent from a year ago, said Bill McKinnon, executive director of the Virginia Beef Industry Council and executive secretary of the Virginia Cattlemen’s Association. …

Empire Kosher Poultry, Inc. one of the countrys most established processors of kosher chicken and turkey announced today that it has completed the acquisition of the Kosher Valley brand of kosher, antibiotic free (ABF) poultry from Hain Pure Protein Corporation in exchange for equity in Empire. …