As a business major in college, the math and some of the science classes I had to take were labeled as “(blank) for the non-scientist.”

For years, the North American Meat Association has held an annual Washington Conference, where attendees travel to Washington D.C. to meet with USDA officials as well as their Congressional representatives.

My first real job (“real” defined as a job that had a future, unlike my fast food, car washing business and door to door sales jobs I had tried as a USC student in L.A.) out of college was for a meat processor in Denver.

This year’s 2014 International Livestock Congress annual meeting in Denver centered on the theme, “The Cattle Industry at a Crossroads? How do we adapt to change?”