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New Zealand's biggest meat exporter PPCS is about to begin a major restructuring of its business as it attempts to avoid a repeat of the $40 million loss it announced yesterday.

The company plans to adjust processing capacity to…

Meat exporter PPCS has reported a net annual loss of $40.3 million, down 229 per cent from a year earlier, after being hit by a “persistently strong” New Zealand dollar.

The result for the year to the end of August compares with…

Modern consumers have a very sanitised view of meat. It grows on trees wrapped in polystyrene from where it is harvested for supermarket chillers.

The sight of animals hung in a shop or the skill of a butcher as he produces fresh…

The comforts of gravy — in lean years and fat.

New Jersey consumer safety officials said yesterday that state inspectors bought recalled frozen hamburgers at a store weeks after the meat was recalled because of fears of E. coli contamination. The 19 boxes were bought in Union City on Wednesday, nearly four weeks after the manufacturer, the Topps Meat Company, issued a nationwide recall of 21.7 million pounds of frozen patties. Officials would not name the store yesterday because of the investigation, and investigators have not determined wh…

The questions people ask make it sound as though I should be morally outraged at myself, as if it’s impossible to scratch the pigs behind the ears and still intend to kill them.

The sharp increase of beef recalls involving E. coli raises questions about whether the Agriculture Department has given the meat industry too much leeway to police itself.

The Department of Agriculture has announced standards that would only allow meat to be labeled as grass fed if it came from animals that ate nothing but grass.

More than 1,100 Hispanic workers have left Smithfield Food’s giant slaughterhouse in Tar Heel, NC, following crackdown by immigration officials in Nov 2006 in which 21 illegal immigrants were arrested; world’s largest hog-butchering plant is struggling to find, train and keep replacements, and is hiring mostly American workers, who often leave poorly paid jobs for higher wages at plant; turnover rate for new workers is high, as many find work grueling and smell awful; Smithfield’s recruiting ch…

The Topps Meat Company, based in Elizabeth, N.J., said it was recalling 21.7 million pounds of ground beef products, which may have sickened 25 people in eight states.