Insights and Stories on Meat

Lab-grown meat can be kosher and halal, experts say

Sep. 11, 2023 at 7:58 pm CDT

Reuters — Lab-grown meat can be labeled kosher and halal as long as its cells are derived in methods compliant with religious standards, according to two panels of experts commissioned by the nascent industry. The opinions are a win for cell-cultivated meat companies, executives said, because it means observant followers […]

Brazil’s JBS reboots plan to list shares in New York

Jul. 12, 2023 at 4:41 pm CDT

By Ana Mano roberto-samora

Canada warns VCOOL would sabotage shared Canada-U.S. goals, supply chains

Jun. 19, 2023 at 3:33 am CDT

By Manitoba Co-operator staff

Italy moves to ban lab-grown food in drive to protect tradition

Mar. 28, 2023 at 8:26 pm CDT

By Angelo Amante

Meat lobby says U.S. voluntary label rule could spur trade action

Mar. 7, 2023 at 7:13 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

Food, farming, forestry must be transformed to curb global warming, UN says

Apr. 6, 2022 at 1:53 am CDT

Reuters — Protecting forests, changing diets, and altering farming methods could contribute around a quarter of the greenhouse gas cuts needed to avert the worst impacts of climate change, according to the United Nations’ climate panel. But the changes are unlikely to happen unless governments act to spur them along, […]

By Leah Douglas

Biden unveils plan to boost competition in U.S. meat industry

Jan. 3, 2022 at 7:18 pm CST

Reuters — The United States will issue new rules and US$1 billion in funding this year to support independent meat processors and ranchers as part of a plan to address a lack of “meaningful competition” in the meat sector, President Joe Biden said Monday. The initiative comes amid rising concerns […]

By Leah Douglas

U.S. packer profit margins jumped 300 per cent during pandemic, economists say

Dec. 10, 2021 at 8:04 pm CST

Washington | Reuters — Four of the biggest meat-processing companies, using their market power in the highly consolidated U.S. market to drive up meat prices and underpay farmers, have tripled their own net profit margins since the pandemic started, White House economics advisers said. Financial statements of the meat-processing companies […]

By Andrea Shalal

U.S. to lift BSE-related rules off sheep, goat imports

Dec. 9, 2021 at 3:39 am CST

U.S. restrictions that have hindered that country’s imports of live Canadian sheep and goats, going back to the start of the BSE crisis in 2003, are set to be scrapped and replaced with rules applying specifically to scrapie. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal Plant and Health Inspection Service (APHIS) […]

By Dave Bedard

Britain tells its food industry to prepare for CO2 price shock

Sep. 22, 2021 at 4:00 pm CDT

London | Reuters — Britain warned its food producers on Wednesday to prepare for a 400 per cent rise in carbon dioxide prices after extending emergency state support to avert a shortage of poultry and meat triggered by soaring costs of wholesale natural gas. Natural gas prices have spiked this […]

By Guy Faulconbridge James Davey Kate Holton

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