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May 11, 2012
How Will Texas' Cattle Crisis and Rising Beef Prices Test Dallas' Love for Steak?
This January, the Houston Press ran a prophetic story about last summer's drought and its coming effects on beef prices. Katherine Shilcutt's story, like our own Brantley Hargrove's story did a few months before, described Texas ranchers who sold off their cattle when the costs associated with raisi ... More >>
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April 25, 2012
Burger King Swears Off Gestation Crates and Ups the Ante with Cage-Free Eggs
Back in February, McDonald's announced it was through with gestation-crated pork products. We feared for McRib sandwiches, Sausage McMuffins and everything topped with bacon, so we called Paul Shapiro, a spokesman for the Humane Society, to talk out the impact of the move. Shapiro called the event ... More >>
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April 24, 2012
Mmm, Science: Lab-Grown Burgers Aren't Far Off, But will Anyone Eat Them?
Meatless Monday, oddly enough, has me thinking about meat more than ever. Apparently I'm not the only one. The New York Times recently held an essay contest for readers. The subject: "Is it ethical to eat meat?" A loaded question, no doubt, and one bound to inspire passionate responses from just ... More >>
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April 5, 2012
Pink Slime Economics: A Local Cattleman on How Beef Prices will Rise, and Why That's OK
Yesterday the farming trade publication Farm Futures carried a story on the potential rise in beef prices after the recent uproar over pink slime, or LFTB (lean finely textured beef). CattleFax, a beef industry research group, estimates the pink slime news cycle "is costing the U.S. beef industry $1 ... More >>
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February 14, 2012
McDonald's To Phase Out Gestation Crate Pork, a Victory for McRibs Everywhere
Last November we reported that Smithfield, the world's top pork producer, had recommitted to phasing out gestation-crate confinement at all of its facilities by 2017. Soon they could have incentive phase the questionable practice out more quickly. McDonald's announced yesterday a new initiat ... More >>
Blogs
December 15, 2011
Smithfield, Torturer of Future-Bacon, Renews Promise Its To Phase Out Gestation Crates
The Humane Society of the United StatesA few weeks back we told you (reminded you, really) about the evils of McDonald's pork supplier, Smithfield Foods. The Humane Society was roasting the commercial pig factory for its use of gestation crates, noted for their impossibly small size and gener ... More >>
Blogs
December 2, 2011
It's About Time Pig Wings Became a Thing
FlickrThe New York Times published an article about pig wings yesterday -- a morsel derived from the small fibula bone in a pig's hind shank. The cut, formerly left attached to a ham, has received new attention after the marketing attempts of a few pork producers have spun the pork as a bar s ... More >>
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November 4, 2011
The Problems with Smithfield Pork and the Way to Guilt-Free-ish Bacon
Be nice to her before you fry her delicious parts.McDonald's is closing out its second week of McRib season, giving the Atlantic a hook to ponder the evils of its pork supplier, Smithfield Foods. The article points out that in the midst of Smithfield's increased welfare practices intended to ... More >>
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September 13, 2011
Lessons in Recessionomics: Beef Prices, a Historic Drought and Hamburger
As my grandfather would say, "It's drier than a popcorn fart." We're smack-dab in the middle of the worst one-year drought ever. The costliest too. Feed prices are nearly unaffordable. Stock tanks are drying up. But the final boot to the gut of the Texas rancher never came. It's the strange artifac ... More >>
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February 22, 2011
Beef Producers Tout Veal's Charms
This was not the meat conference. Veal producers who worried their meat was bound to go the way of once-fashionable dishes like turtle soup say the future's suddenly looking brighter for the embattled protein. The veal industry, which made a point of being omnipresent at the 2011 Meat Confer ... More >>
Blogs
December 28, 2010
Slaughterhouse Ban Could Hurt
Small-Scale Producers
Just your typical suburbanites, enjoying the "country" life of Collin County.Small-scale meat producers say a proposal to limit slaughterhouse construction could harm farm-to-table eating statewide. According to a front-page story in today's Dallas Morning News, State Representative Jodie La ... More >>
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December 17, 2009
The Great States
Just your typical suburbanites, enjoying the "country" life of Collin County.Small-scale meat producers say a proposal to limit slaughterhouse construction could harm farm-to-table eating statewide. According to a front-page story in today's Dallas Morning News, State Representative Jodie La ... More >>
Dining
June 18, 2009
So What Exactly Are You Eating When You Order Fajitas In A Tex-Mex Restaurant?
Just your typical suburbanites, enjoying the "country" life of Collin County.Small-scale meat producers say a proposal to limit slaughterhouse construction could harm farm-to-table eating statewide. According to a front-page story in today's Dallas Morning News, State Representative Jodie La ... More >>
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May 1, 2008
Rock The Asphalt
Just your typical suburbanites, enjoying the "country" life of Collin County.Small-scale meat producers say a proposal to limit slaughterhouse construction could harm farm-to-table eating statewide. According to a front-page story in today's Dallas Morning News, State Representative Jodie La ... More >>
Blogs
January 16, 2008
The Clone Wars
Just your typical suburbanites, enjoying the "country" life of Collin County.Small-scale meat producers say a proposal to limit slaughterhouse construction could harm farm-to-table eating statewide. According to a front-page story in today's Dallas Morning News, State Representative Jodie La ... More >>
Dining
January 10, 2008
Tex-Mex Horse Meat
Horse slaughtering has stopped in Texas, but the horses are still dying—now in Mexico
Calendar
August 23, 2007
The Butter Queen
Deen's live in Big D
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January 25, 2007
The Cows Come Home
Deen's live in Big D
News
April 15, 2004
How Now Mad Cow?
For Texas cattle ranchers, "What's for dinner?" is a touchy question
News
May 23, 2002
Right and Wronged
The taste of victory is bittersweet for a local meatpacker who challenged the USDA
News
September 27, 2001
Corraled
The USDA backs off its tough new meat-inspection standards. That's a good thing, beef producers say.
News
January 11, 2001
Off the Killing Floor
Dallas-based Supreme Beef wins a major round in its court battle with the USDA
News
December 21, 2000
Slaughterhouse Jive
Dallas-based Supreme Beef fought what it believes are unfair regulations, only to wind up on the USDA's killing floor
Best of Dallas
September 21, 2000
Best hamburger (tie)
Angry Dog & Jake's Old Fashioned Burgers and Beer
Best of Dallas
September 21, 2000
Best place to get in a food fight
EatZi's
News
December 12, 1996
Darling, you smell
Local company accused of dumping animal carcasses in Minnesota stream
News
February 22, 1996
Bo? Hell no!
Chicken king Bo Pilgrim wants to bring a new plant and new jobs to East Texas. But East Texans say they want no more of his filthy business.

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