If you are looking to feel invigorated about the meat industry and about your business, I would highly recommend getting tickets for the next Meat Industry Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The Class of 2014 was recently honored at a dinner in Charleston, N.C. during the final North American Meat Association Outlook Conference (The North American Meat Institute will be the name for the combined forces of NAMA and AMI, starting next year).
From the keynote address delivered by the National Cattleman’s Beef Association’s Darren Williams (see it at http://goo.gl/fb/P9sFeS) to the acceptance speeches, it was quite a rundown of some of the greatest accomplishments of the meat industry over the last few decades. It’s easy to get caught up in the doom and gloom of business at times (rising meat prices, upcoming regulations, whatever the latest misrepresentation of the meat industry is) and forget that the industry is capable of great things.