Meat & Poultry

Washingtonians Tina Hoban of Bellingham and Rebecca Spence of Vancouver today were named winners in the Washington Regional Finals of the Second-Annual Foster Farms Fresh Chicken Cooking Contest held at Kathy Casey Food Studios in Seattle. These two Finalists each won a $1,000 cash prize and will now compete at the Finals in person on September 30, 2011, at The Culinary Institute of America at Greystone, in California's Napa Valley. A $10,000 grand prize and one-year supply* of Foster Farms fresh chicken will be awarded to the contest's grand prize winner. …

National Chicken Council President Mike Brown expressed the chicken industry’s gratitude today to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack for USDA’s announced intention to conduct a special purchase of chicken products. …

The nation's two largest hot dog makers are taking their legal beefs to federal court in Chicago, where a judge will determine whether either broke false-advertising laws when boasting about their top-dog status. …

Yes, beef is still what’s for dinner. And these efforts to keep it that way over the years are thanks to your investment in the national Beef Checkoff Program, which is wrapping up its 25th year in operation on behalf of the cattle ranchers, farmers and importers who pay into the program nationwide. …

The federal government is getting out of the business of inspecting provincial meat plants – a move critics say could put consumers at risk over an annual savings of a few million dollars. …