Sales of plant-based meats in the US have risen 6% year-on-year, according to new data from Nielsen, the Plant Based Foods Association and The Good Food Institute.
Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed a new metal detection platform that boasts the ability to identify contaminants that are up to 70% smaller than previous technologies.
The North American Meat Institute (NAMI) has played down a report by the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) Continuous Update Project (CUP) that links processed meat and cancer.
A market campaign featuring religious and spiritual figures eating lamb that incensed Hindus over the portrayal of Lord Ganesh was not created to offend, Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) claims.
Seaboard Triumph Foods (STF) has begun commercial operations at its new pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa, US, two years after work on the site started.
Pedro de Andrade Faria will step down this year as CEO of the one of the world’s biggest meat processors, Brazil-based BRF, in the wake of financial losses and a food safety sting.
Cargill, Hormel Foods and Perdue Farm are among the companies that have donated millions of tonnes of food to people in Texas, US, affected by the Storm Harvey “tragedy”.
The University of California, Berkeley has created a new alternative meats lab to help students become involved in the “trillion dollar” meat industry.
Senior figures in Brazil want the country to start producing more value-added meat products to enhance its position as one of the world’s biggest pork and poultry traders.
Texas-based meat processor Kane Beef has reopened its plant, which was closed temporarily after sustaining “damage” caused by the catastrophic flooding from tropical storm Harvey.
Meat giant Cargill has joined business tycoons Bill Gates and Richard Branson by investing millions of dollars in lab-grown meat start-up Memphis Meats.
A Texas biotech business plans to unveil an approach that bolsters the meat industry’s ability to stop pork tainted with dangerous foodborne pathogens from reaching consumers.
Expansion of Tyson Foods’ poultry plant in the state of Tennessee will create more than 300 jobs as the US meat giant invests $84m to double its output.
Investors should not get overexcited by the risky Asian meat industry as booming production may not translate to soaring profits, a FAIRR (Farm Animal Investment Risk & Return) Initiative report has claimed.
A leading Chinese livestock and meat processing firm wants to tap supply of cattle from south-east Asia, with a cattle quarantine and slaughtering hub planned for the city of Ruili, on the border with Myanmar.
Walt Disney has reportedly paid $177 million to settle a ‘pink slime’ lawsuit against its subsidiary American Broadcasting Company (ABC) for a story it ran in 2012 that allegedly defamed Beef Products Inc.
A US Department of Agriculture (USDA) audit of Canadian meat, poultry and egg inspection systems has raised "significant questions" that “need to be addressed”.
US meat exporters shipping goods through West Coast ports let out a sigh of relief after dockworkers extended contracts, putting to bed fears of crippling cargo delays.
A report from environmental group Mighty Earth, which targeted Tyson Foods for allegedly heavily contributing towards a large ‘dead zone’ in the Gulf of Mexico, has been condemned by the meat company.
The vice-president of legal and corporate affairs at Brazilian meatpacker BRF, José Roberto, has resigned following a “criminal proceeding” against him.
Commodities trader Cargill is spending $7m to modernise its Harrisonburg, Virginia site, used to incubate and hatch more than 23 million turkey eggs per year.
Start-up Impossible Foods has secured a “significant” $75m cash injection from investors, including Bill Gates and a Facebook founder, who now back a revolutionary plant-based burger that bleeds.
Energy technology company Global Re-Fuel has developed a new chicken litter-fuelled biomass furnace that is designed to improve poultry health and farmers’ operating margins by more than $15,000 a year per broiler house.
The US pork industry has thrown its weight behind an act that would stop states from adopting laws and regulations that ban the sale of products from outside of that state.
