Meat & Poultry

Whether it's your first turkey or your fortieth, you might have a cooking question about Thanksgiving dinner. Store chefs at ShopRite and Wegman's are offering answers. …

Big box grocery retailers are selling frozen turkeys for as low as 49 to 98 cents, but a few retailers are also offering customers ways to get their Thanksgiving main course for even less money. …

The American Meat Science Association has completed Producing Battered and Breaded Meat Products, a new work in the growing Meat Processing Technology Series designed to create a resource for the industry on the principles of meat processing technology. …

Using state-of-the art genomics to predict whether a piece of beef will be tender enough may sound excessive. Until now, the meat industry has been using low-tech methods to assess beef quality, based on carcass weight, hanging method and pattern of muscle fat stripes, also known as marbling. However, traditional approaches may lack competitiveness at an industrial scale. "The meat industry needs more precise and consistent ways to predict the quality of beef before it reaches the shelves," Geraldine Duffy, said. She is the Head of food safety at the Teagasc Food Research Centre in Dublin, Ireland, who coordinates the EU-funded project Prosafe Beef. …

In a move designed to help take the pressure off British farmers following rising feed prices, the retailer will create two new groups, run by committees of farmers, which will guarantee beef farmers an above market price for their meat and a price linked to the cost of feed for pork farmers. …