Tag: beef
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Chipotle: A World of Pure Imagination
About four years ago, I realized the extremely important role advocacy plays in agriculture and saw the limitless value of telling my story. I’m proud to share the stories about the small role I play in food production while working alongside my father, husband and in-laws. I do this because there are plenty of people…
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Chipotle, Hypocrites No More, To Use Antibiotic Treated Beef (Maybe)
No lie, folks. Turns out, when beef cattle numbers are at a 60-year low the niche markets that Chipotle buys from suffer too. News hit Tuesday that Chipotle can’t find enough natural beef to meet the demand for their customer base and headlines screamed that the Denver-based chain would have to use beef that has been treated with antibiotics…
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Is Horse Meat Healthy? Is It Better For Me Than Beef?
I think a lot of people ask these question but have a hard time finding the answers: Is horse meat healthy compared to beef? Does horse meat have a lot of protein? Is horse meat low in fat? While I was looking for infographics about beef today on Pinterest, I found some really cool stuff about…
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It’s All in the Details: USDA/FSIS Meat Inspectors
Will there be a meat shortage? Some details shedding light on how the sequester will affect the meat industry have been reported. In various articles this morning, Agriculture Undersecretary Elizabeth Hagen outlines how the furloughs will be implemented and during what time frame. You can read the two of the articles I read for…
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Chipotle: That’s Not Natural
Chipotle appears on my blog often – the burrito giant often brags about sourcing naturally raised meats while condemning conventional agriculture and even goes to such lengths to produce anti-conventional agriculture videos that are glaringly inaccurate, which makes them a high priority on the list of blog topics. Which is why this photo I saw…