Meat Talk

In Part I of pet food we talked about how the globally industry will reach somewhere between $78 billion to $94 billion this year – don’t even ask about the value of baby food because it doesn’t even come close. In Part II we will talk about the nuts and bolts of the industry. The...

In Part I of pet food we talked about how the globally industry will reach somewhere between $78 billion to $94 billion this year – don’t even ask about the value of baby food because it doesn’t even come close. In Part II we will talk about the nuts and bolts of the industry. The...

One of the fastest moving, biggest growth industries is not chicken, burgers, plant protein, or even anything for the Millennials. No, it’s food for our four-legged best friends. Whatever you think the global value of pet food is – you’re wrong, it’s a lot, lot more. In this episode of Meat Talk, we’ll be talking...

It’s a tale of two feet – chicken feet that is. Scorned by the West and loved in Asia, with the world’s poultry industry producing around 100 billion feet a year, do you fill up landfills with chicken feet or turn them into big profits? If only the answer was that easy. In ‘A love...

Back in 2006, an E. coli outbreak in the USA killed five people, made hundreds ill, and left scientists scratching their heads. They suspected strongly raw packaged spinach was the cause, but where was the source? By the time it was tracked down to a tiny, tiny Californian farm, all spinach in the USA –...

Back in 2006, an E. coli outbreak in the USA killed five people, made hundreds ill, and left scientists scratching their heads. They suspected strongly raw packaged spinach was the cause, but where was the source? By the time it was tracked down to a tiny, tiny Californian farm, all spinach in the USA –...

In 1963, the US nuclear attack submarine Thresher was lost at sea after an accident put her past her crush depth of 2,400 feet. In around 1/20 of a second, the boat imploded, releasing the same energy as 22,000 pounds of TNT. Now imagine a machine weighing a massive 120 tons and capable of producing...

Americans love their burgers, eating around 50 billion a year, which works out to an average of three a week for each person. While these billions include chicken, turkey, ostrich, kangaroo, bison, and even salmon, the clear majority are beef. But, thrown into this mix are some new offerings that look and taste pretty much...

As every visitor to India since Alexander the Great can tell you, it’s a country of contradictions. While it’s world’s largest Hindu nation, where cows have been revered and considered sacred for around 2,000 years, it has also recently become the world’s largest exporter of beef, with numbers well beyond that of Australia, Brazil and...

A recent court case decision in the US south against a pig producer is going to send shockwaves around the world. If you farm, produce, or process pork, beef, poultry, or even Pacific Northwest geoducks, you WILL to be affected by this. In a nutshell, a team of lawyers convinced people living around a pig...