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Meat Industry Warns Of 'Widespread Shortage' Due To Sequester

The Huffington Post | Joe Satran | Posted 02.14.2013 | Business
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The White House released a warning on Friday announcing that the looming sequestration could lead to a two-week shutdown of the country's meat industr...

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Does Pink Slime Have a New Relative in the Form of Meat Glue?

Gregg McBride | Posted 07.14.2012 | Healthy Living
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Gregg McBride

Are you sure you were enjoying a delicious filet mignon the last time you went out to a fancy steakhouse? Or were you eating pieces of stew-quality meat that were "glued" together to form what resembled a filet mignon, but was actually anything but?

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Let's Not Give in to Beef Industry "Slimewashing"

Bettina Elias Siegel | Posted 05.20.2012 | Home
Read More: Usda, Nancy Huehnergarth, Chellie Pingree, Lean Beef Trimmings, Beef Industry, Food Safety, E. Coli, Pink Slime, Petition, Nancy Donley, Beef, Pink Slime Beef, Meat, American Meat Institute, Pink Slime Meat, Home News
Bettina Elias Siegel

The beef industry is pushing back hard in the last few days against opposition to Lean Beef Trimmings, better known as "pink slime."

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Court Rejects Meat Industry Attempt to Thwart Regulation

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Animal Cruelty, California, Factory Farming, Westland/Hallmark Meat Co, Pigs, Factory Farms, National Meat Association, Subsidies, Pollution, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Downer Cows, Animal Slaughter, Cows, Horse Slaughter, Taxpayer Money, Agribusiness, Usda, American Meat Institute, Green News
Wayne Pacelle

In a third straight federal appellate court ruling against the meat industry, the Ninth Circuit ruled today that California is well within its authority to ban the sale, transport, or purchase of downer cows and pigs.

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Meat Takes a Beating, Gets a Blessing on Larry King

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Bill Marler, Anthony Bourdain, Foodborne Illness, Larry King, E Coli, Factory Farm, Cargill, Patrick Boyer, China Study, Vegetarianism, Meat, Dr. Colin Campbell, American Meat Institute, Dr. Nancy Rodriguez, Jonathan Safran Foer, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Larry King and cheap processed meat. They've got a lot in common: both smush together scraps of debatable value and dubious origin and extrude them as suitable fodder for our more credulous compatriots.

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