Archive for November, 2007
Affco $12m down on last year's profit
Listed meat company Affco Holdings has added to a lamentable year for export meat companies by reporting a $12 million negative turnaround in its end-of-year result.
The Hamilton company has just announced a $1.3 million operating…
No comments$25 AND UNDER; The Burger and the Philosophy Behind It
Satisfaction, not “wow” value, nor great dollar value, is what Back Forty promises. Over the couple of months that the restaurant has been in business, it’s gotten better at delivering on that promise.
No commentsGround Beef Products Are Subject of Recall After 2 Reports of Illness
A company voluntarily recalled nearly 96,000 pounds of ground beef products after two people were sickened, possibly by E. coli bacteria.
No commentsOwen Hembry: Keep water clean but don't sink our most prized asset
A verbal scrap broke out last week over the Resource Management Act after Federated Farmers president Charlie Pedersen's opening speech to the organisation's national council.
Pedersen says rules aimed at improving water quality…
No commentsNew Jersey Company That Recalled Hamburger Meat Declares Bankruptcy
The Topps Meat Company of Elizabeth, N.J., had shut its doors and laid off most of its employees on Oct. 5, a week after issuing one of the largest beef recalls ever.
No commentsREALLY?; The Claim: White Meat Is Healthier Than Dark Meat
As Americans carve up their Thanksgiving turkeys this year, an age-old question will come into play: dark meat or white?
JERSEY; State Gets a Taste for Goats
The most recent immigrants to New Jersey have brought with them a taste for the meat of an animal that Americans tend to regard more as a tin-can-eating cartoon figure than as dinner.
A Taste of Baboon and Monkey Meat, and Maybe of Prison, Too
Importing bushmeat from Africa is a thriving trade by all accounts, but a federal case in Brooklyn may put someone in prison for doing so.
No commentsNEW YORK; Brooklyn: Unlicensed Meat Imports Defended
A lawyer for a Staten Island woman charged with importing meat without proper licenses and mislabeling a shipment argued yesterday that the charges impinge on her right to freedom of religion.
No commentsFood Prices Increase Sharply in China
China’s consumer prices rose sharply in October, tying decade-high monthly inflation rate of 6.5 percent and adding to pressure for measures to cool surge in food prices; food prices rose 17.6 percent over same period year; price of pork, staple in China, soared 54.9 percent; inflation of nonfood items was 1.1 percent
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