The coronavirus pandemic of 2020 has created a dichotomy in the livestock industry that consumers may find strange. While availability of meats at stores has decreased the prices have been on the rise - this is simple supply and demand. What baffles some people is that while they see this when visiting [...]
JBS SA, the world’s largest meat processing company has 150 industrial plants around the world. Based in São Paulo, Brazil, operates in the United States as JBS USA where it cemented its position as the the largest beef processor in the world when it purchased Swift & Company in 2007 for $1.5-billion. [...]
Food science is the application of science and engineering to study the physical, chemical, and biochemical nature of foods and the principles of food processing across the food supply chain. It's a multi-disciplinary field involving the chemistry of food components, such as proteins, carbohydrates, fats and water and the reactions these components [...]
In December of 2020, the Singapore Food Agency approved an application to manufacture and sell cell-cultured chicken by Eat Just, a US based startup known for developing plant-based egg substitutes. The cell-cultured chicken will eventually be produced under Eat Just’s GOOD Meat brand and will go on sale to foodservice before it [...]
A Japanese aquaculture company recently announced it has succeeded in hatching eggs of fully farmed octopus in western Japan. The seafood company confirmed the hatching of about 140,000 eggs produced by octopus conceived by artificial incubation and is hoping to ship fully farmed octopus to retailers and restaurants across Japan as early [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Ever wonder where your T-Bone Steak or the juicy sirloin tips you had for dinner the other night come from? While most meat eaters know that both a filet mignon and a burger come from a cow, the majority don't give too much thought to where each meat cut comes from [...]