If there’s one trend that food producers can’t ignore, it’s sustainability. Across all sectors, consumers are looking for ways to minimize their impact on the environment through the products they buy. In fact, Nielsen surveys say 73% of consumers are willing change to their buying habits to be more sustainable.
The future is an unpredictable place. As such, we generally prefer to leave predictions to others. We would be reluctant to break our no-prediction rule even in the most stable times, when little in the way of change is expected.
Huston Keith reports from the 2013 Annual Meat Conference on “Making Safe, Affordable, and Abundant Food a Global Reality,” a presentation given by Jeff Simmons, president of Elanco.
On June 16, 2013, meat scientists across the country will begin gathering at Auburn University in Auburn, Ala., for the American Meat Science Association’s (AMSA) 66th Reciprocal Meat Conference (RMC).
The meat industry has a very successful track record of controlling Listeria. In the U.S., the meat industry has not issued a Listeria recall due to illness from a federally inspected product since 2002.