Meat & Poultry

Gold’n Plump Poultry, the Midwest’s largest fully integrated chicken producer, is following up the launch of its Recipe Ready Ground Chicken in 2008 with an encore of six ground chicken line extensions, due to start shipping nationally after Labor Day this Fall. …

U.S. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack recently rolled out a proposed set of tighter antitrust rules for the meat companies that would place on them the sharpest limits since the Great Depression. …

Hog futures rose for the second straight day on speculation that U.S. pork exports will increase as the dollar drops. Cattle fell, erasing earlier gains. …

July 1 marks the beginning of National Hot Dog Month and the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council (NHDSC) is encouraging all Americans to join in celebrating this national icon by firing up the grill and enjoying one of America’s most beloved foods. …

The family-owned poultry-products company this week launched a Facebook sweepstakes bashing the industry practice of “plumping” chickens with 15 percent saltwater. (Many of these products are later labeled “natural,” and the consumer “pays more” for saltwater, Foster Farms maintains.) …