Last month your industry launched a program to help counter the environmental and animal welfare concerns by highlighting how cattle are raised under BQA guidelines.
Cash cattle markets pushed higher as November began, supported by an ongoing rally in CME live cattle and packer demand for supplies headed into the holiday season.
Proposed legislation claims the lack of a federal definition of beef or beef products has created “opportunity for marketplace confusion and consumer fraud,” say the bill’s authors.
America’s four largest beef packers face another lawsuit claiming antitrust violations since 2015, this one filed by a California distributor seeking treble damages.
Utah rancher Mark Mecham says his longhorn bull and an Angus calf were shot and killed while he and his wife were at a hospital for the birth of their daughter.
Ed Rensi, the former president and CEO of McDonald’s, says he has a problem with companies “guilting Americans into diet changes based on faulty information.”
