Beef News

David Ortiz is opening a steak place in Framingham , called, big surprise, Big Papi's. Will also serve seafood and burgers, so they've gotta get Dennis Eckersley out there to analyze the serving of the first burger: That thing's got some serious cheese on it! Hairy cheese! With paint! OK, maybe not.

Three cows or three chicken nuggets? For Mike Corley, the choice was easy. The superintendent of the Pine-Eagle School District in Halfway said the cows that were donated to the district by ranchers last year provided a superior source of protein compared with the chicken nuggets the district had been serving because of rising food costs and school ...

Food contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 may not look or smell spoiled, but eating it may cause serious and potentially life-threatening illnesses.

Consumers might not learn what South Carolina stores sold ground beef possibly contaminated with E. coli until after the grill-happy July Fourth weekend.

Smitha s Food and Drug Stores has expanded a recall on beef products. The recall now includes packages weighing two pounds or more of store-brand ground beef, 85 percent lean, 15 percent fat, with sell-by dates of April 27, 2009 to June 1, 2009.

Today is the end of the Government's consultation period on a "new independent body for animal health". Such an organisation may sound like another innocuous quango, but the truth is more sinister: it's an attempt to shift cost, responsibility and, above all, blame away from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the event of ...

A dead brown cow washed up in a city beach and has promptly unleashed a bureaucratic tangle as officials tried to figure out how to remove 675-kilograms of rotting beef from the beach.

Yesterday we caught the La Cense Beef Truck stocking up at a Bowery store. Latest word is, she'll debut at the end of the week at 46th and Park.

Smith's Food and Drug stores in Utah are recalling several beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli.

Members of the public should phone their protest to the Department of Health if the government went ahead with an expected full opening of Taiwan's market to U.S. beef, the opposition Democratic Progressive Party said yesterday.

Taipei, June 26 A long-term call from the United States asking Taiwan to fully open its market to U.S. beef will apparently be realized very soon, with Stephen M. Young, director of the American Institute in Taiwan , expressing confidence Friday on the issue.

Smith's Food and Drug Stores released a statement Thursday saying it is recalling select store-brand and store-packaged beef products because the beef was supplied by JBS Swift Beef Co.

Brush control, cattle handling techniques, corral design and cattle-selection principles will be featured at the Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course scheduled Aug.

After almost two years, Fairbanks once again has a USDA-certified slaughterhouse.

Taiwan and the United States are currently conducting final negotiations on the controversial issue of fully opening Taiwan's market to U.S. beef, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday.

Growing up on a farm near Yamhill, Ore., I quickly learned to appreciate the difference between fresh, home-grown foods and the commercial versions in the supermarket.

It's wheat sowing season on Argentina's Pampas plains, but farmers are biding their time -- praying for rain and a government defeat in Sunday's mid-term election.

Bigger isn't always better -- at least when it comes to cows. And downsizing is a growing trend in the cattle industry.

WASHINGTON a ' One contributor to global warming a ' bigger than coal mines, landfills and sewage treatment plants a ' is being left out of efforts by the Obama administration and House Democrats to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

Longtime New Mexico cattle rancher Judy Keeler is keenly aware of how tough it is to raise livestock in the dusty desert near the U.S.-Mexico border.