Thursday, September 27, 2012

Sustainable beef

  • McDonald's: We Need To Define What 'Sustainable' Beef Means

    With some products [like beef], there's not even a definition for what sustainable is. We want to use our size and influence to work with the industry and NGOs to come up with definitions of sustainable beef. Ultimately we want to scale the very best ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • McDonald's Wants to Know Whether Its Beef Is Sustainable

    Energy is "the big kahuna," for McDonald's Corp., the world's biggest restaurant chain, according to Bob Langert, its vice president of sustainability. With the fast-food restaurant's global annual energy bill estimated at $2 billion, it's looking at ...

    www.bloomberg.com

  • Sustainability at Biltmore Estate & a Recipe for Lamb Shank Sopes

    With all of the talk about grass fed beef, we were interested in the fact that Dr. Ted raises Angus cattle that are pasture raised (and rotated) and grain fed, which is again, favored by the chefs for the flavor profile.

    www.bunkycooks.com

  • Hawaii Beef Producers joins Parker Ranch, Ulupono Initiative in grass-fed beef ...

    "Everyone's collaboration on this study will help ranchers statewide determine the potential for developing commercially based grass-fed feedlots, or pasture finishing companies, to meet consumer demands for high-quality local beef that everyone can ...

    www.bizjournals.com

  • Full text: Ron Boswell's speech to Senate

    Last May in Rockhampton at Beef Australia 2012, Queensland cattle farmers had a very rude awakening. They were meeting members of the Australian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (ARSB) to discuss plans to improve the industry's sustainability practices.

    sl.farmonline.com.au

  • Grass-fed beef starts to sizzle

    After nearly four decades of diminishing ranches, consolidated processing facilities and the growing dominance of corn-fed beef, consumers are once again developing a healthy appetite for free-range, grass-fed cattle. Local ranchers are expanding their ...

    www.bizjournals.com

  • Learning to Can Meats and Charm Wary Sheep

    "Canned beef is wonderful," she said. "It's just the ... Whether driven by economic or environmental concerns, interest in sustainable living - canning food, using solar power to live off the grid, gathering honey from a backyard beehive - is booming ...

    www.nytimes.com

  • Walmart Sustainability Index 'Ahead of Schedule'

    The company also made announcements yesterday related to its monitoring of beef suppliers, and the installation of its biggest solar array to date.

    www.environmentalleader.com

  • Butcher's Guild Holds a Meat Retreat

    Thirty top butchers from around the country will descend on Oakland's Jack London Square this Wednesday for what's billed as an unprecedented gathering of sustainability-minded meat professionals. The first-ever Butcher's Guild Retreat will feature two ...

    www.eastbayexpress.com

  • Charcuterie is the meat of the matter

    The business opened in October 2011, born out of what Deming saw as a missing link between smaller, provincially inspected livestock farmers, and consumers willing to pay a premium for animals raised by more ethical and sustainable methods, such as ...

    www2.macleans.ca

  • New Research Underscores Value Of Industry Technology

    Dr. Rethorst has a longstanding interest in industry sustainability. He was one of the few veterinarians to attend the Global Conference on Sustainable Beef in 2010. That meeting set the stage for establishing "a multi-stakeholder initiative by ...

    beefmagazine.com

  • Cattle Council fights for future

    Senator Boswell compared a WWF scheme called the Australian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef to an 'extortion' racket and called for Cattle Council and several other Australian companies to sever all ties to the group.

    sl.farmonline.com.au

  • Update from the Sustainable Beef Resource Center

    The new study by Jude Capper, Ph.D., and Dermot Hayes, Ph.D., titled "The Environmental and Economic Impact of Removing Growth-Enhancing Technologies from United States Beef Production," recently was presented as a poster at the 2012 American ...

    www.cattlenetwork.com

  • 'Eat Local Fish Day' To Highlight Ocean's Unsung Heroes

    The "Eat Local" movement is in full swing with people around the country excited to buy fresh local tomatoes, grass-fed beef and artisan cheeses. But "local" and "sustainable" fish is still often a mystery. What seafood to buy, how it lived (farmed or ...

    www.forbes.com

  • Totem Farms specializes in grass-fed beef

    Properly managed pasture-reared cows take beef to whole new levels of health and efficiency. Grass fed beef is richer in healthy fats, such as Omega-3 - a nutrient severely in short-supply in most modern Americans' diets.

    www.ravallirepublic.com

  • Proactive Practitioner: Beef Quality Assurance

    The segment will feature entrepreneurial practitioners taking advantage of contemporary communication and marketing tools, seeking to improve their business, share ideas and develop a sustainable business model moving forward. Advertisement ...

    beefmagazine.com

  • Canadian beef recalled for E. coli risk

    One grocery chain, Alberstons, said Monday that it is voluntarily recalling a number of ground beef products sold at its stores in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, due to the contamination.

    www.kirotv.com

  • Bon Appetit Management Company To Buy Only Humanely Raised Ground Beef

    In the past few years, Bon Appetit has switched to cage-free eggs, fair trade chocolate and sustainable seafood. Now, the company has pledged to go one step further -- it will buy only humanely raised ground beef starting September 1. According to the ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Consumers To Trader Joe's: Stop Selling Meat Raised on Antibiotics

    The Meat Without Drugs campaign is asking Trader Joe's to help address a major public health crisis: the declining effectiveness of antibiotics caused by their overuse in meat and poultry production. Some 80 percent of all antibiotics are fed to ... In ...

    www.corporatecrimereporter.com

  • Taylor's Market offers butchering class, ranch tour and dinner

    It's probably the most local grass-fed beef you can get." Here's a quick tip from Johnson about grass-fed beef: you don't want to overcook it. Cook it medium-rare at most. And beware - grass-fed cooks faster. The butchering class starts at 1 p.m. and ...

    blogs.sacbee.com

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