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Perdue to Buy Niman Ranch, Chipotle Pork Supplier & Natural Meat Maker

Perdue to Buy Natural Meat Maker & Chipotle Pork Supplier Niman Ranch

Perdue and LNK Partners announced today that Natural Food Holdings, including the well-known Niman Ranch® brand, is being purchased by Perdue.“This represents the next chapter in our growth through premium proteins and trusted brands,”…

The Not So COOL Reason You May Soon Not Know Where Your Steak Came From

Country of Origin (COOL), Food Products, World Trade Organization (WTO)

The Not So COOL Reason You Won’t Know Where Your Steak Came From

Cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy—mad cow disease—have been reported in Brazil as recently as 2014. When a cow was found to have died from the neurogenerative disease, which humans can contract by eating meat from sick animals, in…

Consumer Products, Food Products, Seafood, Slave Labor

Costco Faces Lawsuit Over Sale of Prawns Allegedly Farmed By Slave Labor

Costco Wholesale Corp. customer sued the retailer on allegations that it knowingly sold frozen prawns that were the product of slave labor. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, alleges…

Food Products, Seafood, Slave Labor

Slave Labor Producing Prawns for Supermarkets in USA

Slave labor forced to work for no pay for years at a time under threat of extreme violence are being used in Asia in the production of seafood sold by major US, British and other European retailers, the Guardian can reveal. A six-month…

As Nabisco Ships 600 Jobs Out of Chicago to Mexico, Maybe It’s Time To Give Up Oreos

Consumer Products, Food Products, Jobs, Manufacturing, Outsourcing

Nabisco Ships 600 Jobs to Mexico. Time To Give Up Oreos

I may have to give up one of my longest-standing indulgences: the dunking of an Oreo cookie in cold milk (whole is preferred). I don’t do this lightly, as I have been dunking those deliciously wicked rounds of chocolate and what I choose to…

Consumer Products, Food Products, Jobs, Made in USA, Manufacturing, Outsourcing, Production

Nabisco to Cut Chicago jobs, Send Some Work to Mexico

Mondelez International (Nabisco) will lay off half its 1,200 employees in its bakery on Chicago's Southwest Side after deciding to invest significantly in a Mexico plant rather than its long-standing facility here. The Nabisco company decided…

Consumer Products, Food Products, Recalls, USDA

1.7 million lbs of Frozen Chicken May Be Contaminated with Salmonella

Barber Foods is recalling 1,707,494 pounds of raw frozen chicken products after the U.S. Department of Agriculture received reports of a cluster of people in Minnesota and Wisconsin becoming ill with salmonella poisoning. The Portland, Maine…

Country of Origin (COOL), Food Products, USDA

Beef Imports from FMD Infected Brazil & Argentina Approved

USDA Approval of Brazilian Beef Imports Coming Soon?? Foot & Mouth Disease Threat Alert! USDA appears to be gearing up to do the unthinkable: allowing fresh beef imports from Brazil, a country contaminated with highly contagious Foot-and-Mouth…

Consumer Products, Country of Origin (COOL), Domestic Sourcing, Food Products, Made in USA, Made in USA Certified, Manufacturing & Sourcing

Beverage Company Earns Product of USA CERTIFIED Seal on Apple Cider

CERTIFIED, Inc. (madeinusa.net), the nation’s leading independent, non-governmental organization (NGO) certification company for Country of Origin claims, reported today that ZEIGLER’S has earned a Product of USA CERTIFIEDTM Seal for its…

China Arrests Smugglers Selling Frozen Meat From The '70s

Food Products

China Arrests Smugglers Trying To Sell Frozen Meat From The 1970s

In the latest food scandal to hit China, authorities have seized almost half a billion dollars worth of smuggled frozen meat, some of more than 40 years old. According to the state-run China Daily, customs officials have confiscated over 100,000…