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Russian Demand Sees Brazil Meat Prices Rocket
2014-08-21 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
BRAZIL – Extra Russian demand is seeing ‘soaring’ pork prices in Brazil which is now inflating beef and chicken markets at a low supply ebb.
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Meat Market Update | Beef Sales Volume Jumps As Buyers Prep For Labor Day Weekend
2014-08-20 18:26:00| Beef
Ed Czerwien, USDA Market News reporter in Amarillo, TX, provides us with the latest outlook on boxed beef prices and the weekly cattle trade. Beef prices dropped a few dollars for the week ending August 16, but that really stimulated the beef sales volume, which jumped almost 1,000 loads as retailers order product for Labor Day and out-front sales for later in September. Ed Czerwien, USDA Market News read more
Why Does Less Meat Mean Less Heat?
2014-08-16 00:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: After long focusing on fuel economy and energy production, environmentalists and scientists are now promoting a diet of more plants and less meat to slow climate change but why? It's a problem with efficiency. Industrial farm-animal production getting animals from farms to our plates is inherently inefficient. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, global animal agriculture produces vast amounts of crops to feed billions of farm animals long before they are...
Meat Market Update | Beef Prices Stay Strong, But Sales Volume Struggles
2014-08-13 16:25:00| Beef
The Comprehensive or Average Choice Cutout sets another new all-time high price, but sales volume continues to plummet. Ed Czerwien, USDA Market News read more
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The meat you eat is worsening climate change
2014-08-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MainStreet: There's a huge contributor to climate change that gets ignored when talking about our warming world -- and it isn't coal or cars . Rather, it's what we most of us eat on a daily or near daily basis -- namely, meat and milk . Read More: Carbon Tax Gains Steam to Fight Global Warming In 2006, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations released a lengthy report entitled "Livestock's Long Shadow." Among the array of environmental problems the livestock industry is accused of contributing...
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