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Several researchers and industry-based opinions have called for a regeneration of cutability determination to better match our industry’s cattle type.

Thirty-one percent of people surveyed in AMI/FMI’s Power of Meat 2012 study said that they regularly cut down on portion sizes of meat and poultry as one of their healthy eating strategies.

It has been said that bacon is meat candy. And this past year, restaurants have pushed the point by literally treating bacon as a sweet garnish for and in sundaes, milkshakes and coffee.

The deli continues to modernize as it remains a destination for convenient meals.

Today, most methods of mass cooking and chilling are pretty economical and sufficient for their purpose. However, processors and manufacturers continue to tweak thermal-processing procedures to eliminate remaining challenges.

A new meat trade association is poised to carry on the legacies of NAMP and NMA.

The Obama Administration chose to offer immigration protection to younger undocumented immigrants through the “Deferred Action Process for Young People” program.

Let’s say this out loud right at the start — no one actually wants to hold spare-parts inventory. Why would you?  Inventory ties up working capital that we could otherwise use for more productive purposes.

It is not always easy to indicate or appreciate what the benefits of maintenance are, but as product processes become more automated, they are more interconnected.

The meat-processing industry, as evidenced by the Top 100 Report, continues to be both extremely stable in some aspects and wildly erratic in others. The companies at the top of the list — Tyson Foods, JBS USA, Cargill Meat Solutions and Smithfield Foods — did not break rank from last year.