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Secret Slaughterhouse Pipeline Fills Texas Creek With Pig Blood
By Laura Northrup on January 25, 2012 9:05 AM
110 Comments
An amateur drone pilot in Texas was flying a simple rig with a point-and-shoot camera attached for fun, and noticed something strange in a creek. There was an awful lot of dark red in the water. He notified the county, and a Department of Health and Human Services investigation showed that the substance discoloring the water was blood. Raw pig blood from a nearby meatpacking plant. More »
Behold The Pork Roast Molded In The Shape Of A Tiny Pig
By Laura Northrup on November 10, 2011 11:30 AM
105 Comments
Lee found this pig-shaped pork roast at Costco, but doesn't find it particularly appealing. "I just can't grill a roast that looks like 'Babe'," he writes. It's like roasting a suckling pig, but without the youth or the internal organs. More »
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Police: Alleged Shoplifter Stuffed Beef Down His Pants
By Laura Northrup on July 14, 2011 12:30 PM
62 Comments
What probably started as a normal day at a South Carolina grocery store ended with action and intrigue after employees noticed a man leaving the store with several packages of tenderloin stuffed down his pants. According to the police report, a manager confronted the man in the parking lot, reaching inside his waistband and pulling out a tenderloin. And then things got interesting. More »
Organic, Natural Meat May Have More Preservatives Than Label Says
By Phil Villarreal on July 5, 2011 11:30 AM
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If you avoid standard processed meats because of labels indicating they're packed with potentially damaging preservatives including nitrate and nitrite, your efforts may be in vain. The "organic" and "natural" alternatives may include similar chemicals, despite what their labels say. More »
Meat & Poultry To Get Detailed Nutritional Labels Starting In 2012
By Chris Morran on December 30, 2010 2:40 PM
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In what the USDA says is an attempt to better inform the meat-buying public about the products they buy, many popular cuts of meat and poultry will be required to carry labels with detailed nutritional information. More »
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8,500 Lbs. Of Ground Beef Recalled From BJ's Wholesale Clubs In 8 States
By Chris Morran on August 30, 2010 6:28 AM
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A few tons of ground beef from a meat processor in Pennsylvania have been recalled over fear of possible E. coli contamination. As of early Monday morning, the only retail outlets identified as possibly having received the ground beef were BJ's Wholesale clubs in Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Virginia. More »
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190 Tons Of Walmart Deli Meat Recalled Over Potential Listeria Contamination
By Chris Walters on August 24, 2010 9:30 AM
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A New York company called Zemco Industries has recalled 380,000 pounds of deli meat that it distributed to Walmart under the Marketside label, because it might be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Although nobody has reported any illness and healthy people aren't usually in danger, listeriosis can kill old people, infants, and others with weak immune systems. More »
Meet The Meat-Man Parfait & Its Layers Of Meaty Goodness
By Chris Morran on August 17, 2010 2:15 PM
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Yesterday, we directed you to the intersection of dessert and dinner with the red velvet fried chicken. Today, we show you what happens when dinner fully invades the dessert realm with the savory layers of the Meat-Man Parfait. More »
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Sausage King Jimmy Dean Dead At 81
By Chris Morran on June 14, 2010 12:20 PM
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This is truly sad news for those of us whose best memories of weekend mornings is waking up to the smell of Jimmy Dean sausages wafting up from the kitchen. The man behind the delicious dishes has passed away at the age of 81. More »
As Consumer Demand Recovers, Meat Prices Are Going Up
By Meg Marco on May 10, 2010 2:20 PM
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Chicken producers like Tyson and Pilgrim's Pride slashed production in 2008 as feed prices went up and consumer demand for meat fell — but now as the economy recovers the demand is going up — along with prices. More »
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Report: Lack Of Limits, Oversight, Lets Tainted Meat Out Into Market
By Chris Morran on April 13, 2010 3:28 PM
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A new report issued by the Dept. of Agriculture's Office of the Inspector General says that tainted meat is making its way to your dinner plate because of a combination of inter-departmental squabbling and a lack of general oversight by the regulatory agencies involved. More »
Behold The 6880 Calorie Burger King Tower Of Meat
By Meg Marco on March 8, 2010 3:57 PM
41 Comments
Burger King's nutritional information page is apparently quite a lot of fun. If you find it necessary you can create a multi-patty superburger with 6880 calories. Instructions, inside. More »
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Hot Dog Found At Coney Island May Be 140 Years Old, But Definitely A Hoax
CNN News12 Brooklyn said, "That's unbelievable, finding hot dogs that are 140 years old. That's crazy, to me it's crazy." Another person said, "These things are irreplaceable, they're priceless. And it's great that they found it, and that it will be here for generations to come and see and learn." More »
By Chris Walters on February 25, 2010 3:50 PM
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Update: As several readers have pointed out, it's a Coney Island publicity hoax, which probably explains why CNN yanked the clip. * People are calling it the caveman hot dog. Okay, nobody is calling it that. But one person interviewed by
Would You Buy This Meat?
By Meg Marco on February 22, 2010 12:37 PM
94 Comments
Reader Michael sent us this breakfast-ruining photo of some seriously off-putting meat offered at a discount at Walmart. A quick glance at this meat spoilage guide suggests "Oxidative Rancidity" which is what happens when you don't wrap meat properly. More »
Subway's Beef Barbacoa Sub Could Use Some Beef
By Laura Northrup on January 30, 2010 8:00 AM
94 Comments
Subway is offering a limited-time sandwich, the "Beef Barbacoa," in a few markets. Skylar in California ordered this sandwich, being misled by the name into thinking that it contained a reasonable amount of beef. Don't be silly, Skylar. More »
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Walmart Customer Arrested For Urinating On Steaks
By Laura Northrup on January 23, 2010 3:04 PM
74 Comments
Either this man was not in his right mind, or this was the stupidest animal-rights protest ever. The police in Canton, Ohio report that a man was arrested and jailed for urinating on a Walmart meat counter, ruining $600 worth of steak. More »
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USDA Not So Sure Ammonia-Injected Beef Is Safe
By Phil Villarreal on January 4, 2010 10:00 AM
72 Comments
Thanks to findings presented by the New York Times, the USDA took away an exemption from routine testing it had given to meat from Beef Products, Inc., which supplies ammonia-injected beef to grocery stores and fast food chains including McDonald's and Burger King. More »
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Ruby Tuesdays' Steaks Too Small In Massachusetts
By Chris Walters on December 10, 2009 9:59 AM
48 Comments
The Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs sent inspectors to five of the nine Ruby Tuesdays restaurants in Massachusetts after a customer complaint. Today they released an announcement that in all five locations, they found steaks that were smaller than their labeled size. The restaurant's supplier, Colorado Premium Foods, was fined $700 dollars. More »
This Freshly Shaved Deli Meat Is Making Me Uncomfortable
By Chris Walters on December 1, 2009 11:01 AM
60 Comments
Maybe Oscar Mayer was thinking that folding the turkey that way would make shoppers think about turkey breasts. Maybe I have spent too much time in the more colorful parts of the Internet. Either way, I am not sure I could see this in the supermarket without doing a double take. And probably giggling. More »
Ground Beef Gains Time-Travel Ability
By Laura Northrup on November 21, 2009 11:00 PM
59 Comments
—>Nick didn't notice the label on this package of ground beef until after he brought it home. Seeing how he bought it on November 20, 2009, and the label claims that it was packaged on August 8, 2004, he's a little confused. More »
