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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
AUSTIN, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE: HRL) today announced the largest annual profit sharing in company history to be distributed to employees. More than $15.9 million is being dispersed to eligible hourly and salaried employees during the Thanksgiving Eve Day tradition. The multinational marketer of consumer-branded food and meat products continues to stand out in the industry...
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Veggie Revolution (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
A book review by Sally Kneidel, PhD http://sallykneidel.com/ As a biologist and co-author of two books about the meat industry, I was asked by Jonathan Safran Foer's publicist to review Foer's new non-fiction book Eating Animals . I confess I didn't want to read it, because the topic can be distressing. But I'm glad I did. It's among the best books I've ever read on the topic: remarkably thorough and...
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tyson Foods Inc reported a higher-than-expected quarterly profit on Monday, boosted by the performance of its beef, pork and prepared foods businesses.
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Tyson Foods Inc. said Monday its fourth-quarter loss was $456 million, or $1.22 a share, compared to a profit of $48 million, or 13 cents a share, in the year-ago perriod. On an adjusted basis, the meat company said it earned 28 cents a share, compared to 13 cents a share, last year. Analysts polled by FactSet Research were looking for earnings of 26 cents a share, on average....
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Causecast - Latest News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Tanaka time... So I am very sad that today was my last class with Sustainable Works ! But more workshops will be held in the near future, I recommend going to them they are very helpful and enlightening! Well I'm glad our last class ended with talking about food, because this week The Green Project is paralleling the same topic. I want to start off with a couple of statistics which I find eye-opening....
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AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Sorry, but no thanks . If the question is really about feeding more people, vegetarian is a much better option. Somehow this sounds like something the meat industry is more interested in than anyone else. I don't care how much marketing you throw at it, there's little to like about this. Winston Churchill once predicted that it would be possible to grow chicken breasts and wings more efficiently without...
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Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
THE kangaroo meat industry's failure to adhere to hygiene regulations is placing public health at risk, a former senior food safety bureaucrat says.
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Earth Friendly Weddings (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
As I am writing this post, I am starving. It's 12 pm on Saturday and I've got lunch on the brain. I came across this awesome recipe for vegetarian bolognese (scrap the beef and use lentils!) and to say I am craving a lentil packed pasta dish now would be an understatement. I thought I would take advantage of my hunger induced attitude to share with you the benefits of cutting back on meat. (And I...
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Paramus Post (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Surfing the supermarket shelves will yield a mind-boggling array of new labels on our food. But what do these labels mean, and how truthful are their claims? For example, the "organic" label carries the promise that food is grown according to organic farming practices, in which soil is enriched and tested yearly. But what you don't see on that label are the carbon costs to the environment...
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Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
A butcher has devised a rather expensive strategy to convince customers to plump for locally reared beef - he is giving it away.
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Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk - Liverpool News (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
A butcher has devised a rather expensive strategy to convince customers to plump for locally reared beef - he is giving it away.
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The University Campus (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
“Sorry mate, but I’m not going to eat it,” the last words, said Stefan Gates, in Cooking in the Danger Zone , a documentary film by BBC. Stefan Gates is a food “adventurous”. He pops up wherever eating is a challenging task; Afghanistan, Tonga, U.S. Army, India, Venezuela, and this time, South Korea. Maybe, South Korea can’t be considered as a high-risk region in...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The family of an 11-year-old Rhode Island girl has filed a lawsuit against a Massachusetts meat company that supplied meat to a youth camp where she became ill.
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Philobiblon (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
I’ve kind of known I would take this step for a while, but the recent spurt of publicity about the carbon impacts of the meat industry (and reading Prashant Vaze’s The Economical Environmentalist) has finally driven me to a decision: I’m going to become an almost-vegetarian. Using the Guardian’s carbon output ready reckoner, I calculated [...]
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Causecast - Latest News (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
by CLAIRE GRINTON , Contributing Writer We’ve all read about the effects of the U.S. meat industry on our health, whether it is a question of added hormones or polluted run-off into our water. So, it seems a fair assumption that hospitals, a place dedicated to healing and health and the vow to “First, do no harm” would be wary when considering meat in their menus. Unfortunately, the...
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