beef
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Online startup Crowd Cow wants to disrupt the meat market. The stakes have never been higher.
The online sensation provides “steak holders” with slick marketing and ranchers with new customers. But is its promise overcooked?
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Where’s the beef? Everywhere.
In a new book, "Cowed," Denis Hayes and Gail Boyer Hayes look at the complex and omnipresent place of cows in our culture.
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T-bone steak with fennel-radicchio relish and olive oil flatbreads [RECIPE]
This recipe is from Pure Beef: An Essential Guide to Artisan Meat with Recipes for Every Cut (Running Press Book Publishers, 2012). Read an interview with the author here. A grilled steak adorned with a crunchy and shredded vegetable salad is one of my ultimate no-fuss summer meals. Toss sweet fennel and bitter radicchio with […]
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Cut above: Cooking with grass-fed beef
A new book by Lynne Curry covers everything from how grass becomes beef to the basics of butchery -- with plenty of recipes along the way.
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In Argentina, factory farms replacing grass-fed beef
Long known for its grass-fed beef, Argentina has traded in native grasslands for industrial soy farms and feedlots. Fortunately, some ranchers are holding on to tradition while preserving biodiversity.
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Critical List: Gulf of Mexico dolphins have serious health problems; tweeting from the ocean bottom
James Cameron hung out at the deepest point in the ocean yesterday — and tweeted about it. Dolphins that have been in living in the Gulf of Mexico have serious health problems — low body weight, liver and lung cancer — that scientists describe as “consistent with oil exposure.” Obama’s promoting an “all-of-the-above” energy plan, […]
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American beef consumption is at a 50-year low
According to this graph from the Daily Livestock Report, we are way past Peak Beef. U.S. beef consumption has been dropping for the last 40 years, and projections put it back down at 1950s levels this year, which would mean we're eating less meat than at any time in the last 50 years. Americans are eating a lot less meat overall, but beef and to a lesser extent pork have seen the biggest reductions -- which is cool, because cattle and pigs are the most resource-intensive livestock.
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Fast food chains give up ‘pink slime’ meat product
McDonald's, Taco Bell, and Burger King just stopped using a product popularly known as "pink slime" in their burger meat. The "slime" comes from the tiny bits of beef in leftover fatty trimming. Those bits are doused with ammonia in order to kill E. coli and are then made into human food. Or “human” “food.” […]
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Rising Meat Consumption Takes Big Bite out of Grain Harvest
World consumption of animal protein is everywhere on the rise. Meat consumption increased from 44 million tons in 1950 to 284 million tons in 2009, more than doubling annual consumption per person to over 90 pounds. The rise in consumption of milk and eggs is equally dramatic. Wherever incomes rise, so does meat consumption. As […]