SEMBOKU, Japan—A remote Japanese town has taken to selling bear meat from a vending machine, sourcing its supply to Asian black bears, listed as a vulnerable species, caught in traps or in the mountains by hunters. Bear attacks are an increasing problem in parts of rural Japan due to a shortage of food in the […]
Elkhorn Valley Packing has recalled approximately 3,436 pounds of boneless beef chuck product due to possible contamination with Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The outfit, based in Harper, Kansas, issued the recall after an FSIS routine inspection of a sample of ground beef that […]
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the first time cleared a meat product grown from animal cells for human consumption, the agency announced on Wednesday. UPSIDE Foods, a company that makes cell-cultured chicken by harvesting cells from live animals and using the cells to grow meat in stainless-steel tanks, will be able to […]
OMAHA, Neb.—The Agriculture Department announced more than $223 million in grants and loans Wednesday to help small- and mid-sized meat processing plants expand as part of a larger $1 billion effort to boost competition in the highly concentrated industry. The effort is expected to increase cattle and pig slaughter capacity by more than 500,000 head […]
Just west of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, another line has been breached in the global “war on meat.” For fear of its impact on the climate, the city of Haarlem has moved to outlaw at least some advertisements for meat in public areas. The resolution, which refers to “bioproducts” rather than meat, came from Ziggy […]
The U.S. annual inflation rate surged to 7.9 percent in February, matching the market estimate, new data show. In February, the core inflation rate, which strips the volatile food and energy sectors, climbed to 6.4 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This also met economists’ expectations. Both inflation measurements were up by […]
A message for athletes heading to Beijing next month for the Winter Olympics: not to eat meat in China—said a directive from the German Anti-Doping Agency on Monday. The agency sent the warning to traveling athletes for fear they might fall foul of doping regulations. Athletes may test positive in drug tests when they eat too much […]
LONDON—Britain’s meat processors will start running out of carbon dioxide (CO2) within five days, forcing them to halt production and impacting supplies to retailers, the industry’s lobby group warned on Monday. A jump in gas prices has forced several domestic energy suppliers out of business and has shut fertilizer plants that also make CO2 as […]
