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A Kansas State University (KSU) researcher in animal sciences and industry has developed a technique that enriches ground beef with omega-3 fatty acids — fatty acids that have been shown to reduce heart disease, cholesterol and high blood pressure, the university said in a news release....More

While some beef producers may feel Brazil is getting off easy in the world's reaction to its first reported case of BSE, the U.S. Meat Export Federation says it's a reflection of the more science-based approach that trading partners are taking today when BSE cases are detected....More

Meat is a major dietary source of taurine, an essential human nutrient. A 3-oz. beef steak would provide 55 mg taurine, which would meet about 70% of daily taurine requirement by healthy adults. Because plants contain no taurine, abundant amounts of taurine from all kinds of meats demonstrate another important contribution that animal foods make to improving human health and well-being....More

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria is an issue that threatens to consume food animal production. According to conventional wisdom, overuse of antibiotics by animal agriculture is leading to antibiotic-resistant bugs in humans. The solution? Stop using antibiotics for non-therapeutic use in food animals. The reality, as it often does, is proving conventional wisdom completely wrong....More

Whether or not using antibiotics in food animal production contributes to resistant antibiotics in humans is one of the most volatile flashpoint issues facing not just agriculture, but all of society today. And, like all emotional issues, various groups draw lines in the sand and spew rhetoric that serves only to polarize the issue and confuse consumers....More

Specifics are still preliminary but Gary Mickelson, Tyson Foods director of media relations, says the FarmCheck™ program of on-farm audits concernd the areas of human-animal interaction; access to food and water; general animal well-being; proper worker training; proper animal handling practices; routine self-auditing and monitoring of facility and animal caretakers by the producer; and records of activities and actions....More

U.S. beef exports have been tracking close to year-ago levels for much of the summer, even as shipments to top markets such as Mexico Canada and South Korea have been lower than a year ago. Based on U.S. weekly beef export data, shipments to Mexico for the period May-August were down 10% from the same period a year ago while shipments to Canada during the same reference period were down 11%. Canada and Mexico remain two of the top markets for U.S. beef although they represent a much smaller share of total exports than what they once did (see chart)....More