Whole Foods Market halts sale of rabbit
Whole Foods Market will stop selling rabbit meat in US stores after poor sales, animal welfare concerns and protests from groups squeamish over meat obtained from animals commonly kept as pets.
Archives for September 20, 2015
Chameleon Cold Brew CEO: 'We are growing quickly, but smartly'
A product only aficionados – and hipsters - had heard of a couple of years ago, cold-brew coffee is rapidly becoming an established part of any forward-thinking retailer’s beverage set. But the market has grown so explosively that a shakeout seems...
Uruguayan rugby team dines on home-produced beef
The Uruguayan national rugby team, Los Teros, is to be fed on home-produced beef throughout the 2015 Rugby World Cup in the hope it will help their performance.
Pack Expo to focus on food trends and safety
More than 30,000 visitors from the meat processing and packaging sectors are expected to attend this year’s Pack Expo in Las Vegas later this month.
USDA detains contaminated chicken
Chicken products made by Aspen Foods, a division of Chicago-based Koch Poultry Company, have tested positive to the same salmonella enteritidis strain that sparked a recall by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) in July.
COOL labelling sanctions not cool, argues US
Canada and Mexico should dilute sanctions they want the World Trade Organisation (WHO) to approve in retaliation against Washington’s beef and pork country-of-origin labelling (COOL) rules, the US has argued at a WHO hearing.