http://www.www.meatinternational.com Tagline nl-nl http://www.www.meatinternational.com http://www.meatinternational.com/images/logo_meat_rss.gif 30 158 Meat International: Tag line http://www.meatinternational.com/news/news/874/salt-and-fat-determine-success-mcdonalds.html The secret of the Mc Donald's success? Salt and fat according to Jill McDonald, chief marketing officer for McDonald's UK. She admitted that if the firm removed unhealthy ingredients, consumers would vote with their feet and eat elsewhere. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:25:00 GMT http://www.meatinternational.com/news/news/873/malaysia-ministry-monitors-beta-agonist.html The Malaysian Health Ministry will meet representatives of pig farmers, butchers and the Federation of Livestock Farmers Associations Malaysia to remind them of the pledge they signed in 2007 to not use beta agonist. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:17:00 GMT http://www.meatinternational.com/news/news/872/less-meat-consumed-in-the-netherlands.html Caused by less consumption of pig meat, meat consumption in 2007 in the Netherlands fell by around 2% compared with 2000 levels, according to Dutch magazine CBS. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:55:00 GMT http://www.meatinternational.com/news/news/871/hormone-grown-beef-battle-continues.html The European Union has begun new trade negotiations with the US, in an effort to persuade the US to lift sanctions imposed on EU imports into the US. Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:03:00 GMT http://www.meatinternational.com/news/news/870/media-campaign-gives-us-beef-push.html A media publicity campaign by Beef Checkoff has given US beef more than 900 million consumer impressions since Oct. 1 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:43:00 GMT http://www.meatinternational.com/news/news/869/cargill-faces-more-lawsuits-on-dirty-burgers.html In the E. coli contaminated meat scandal in the US another lwasuit has been filed against Cargill Meat Solutions. Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:33:00 GMT http://www.meatinternational.com/news/news/868/new-zealand-meat-exports-at-risk-due-to-ill-informed-comments.html A comment made by Silver Fern Farms’ CEO that New Zealand is missing the boat by not applying a similar tagging system as Australia could harm New Zealand’s meat exports. Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:03:00 GMT http://www.meatinternational.com/news/news/866/new-pork-deal-for-russia-us.html Russia and the United States have signed a new 2009 meat deal increasing import duties on poultry and pork supplies above quotas, the Economic Development Ministry has said. Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:59:00 GMT http://www.meatinternational.com/news/news/865/s%2E-koreas-plan-to-protect-domestic-beef.html Following a report that sales of US beef has beaten sales of other imported and even domestic beef at three of South Korea’s largest supermarket chains has prompted Seoul to take steps to protect the domestic beef producers. Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:13:00 GMT http://www.meatinternational.com/news/news/863/update-mexico-ends-ban-on-some-us-meat-imports.html Mexico has agreed to end it’s ban of US meat imports from about 20 of the 30 US plants it suspended on the 23 December, according to a USDA spokeswoman. Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:04:00 GMT http://www.meatinternational.com/news/news/862/tbc-causes-shortage-british-beef-cattle.html The UK beef production and probably also the milk production is declining fast as a result of the TBC and the culling of calves. Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:41:00 GMT http://www.meatinternational.com/news/news/860/mexico-bans-us-meat-imports.html Mexico has suspended meat imports from 30 processing plants in 14 US states, including some of the nation's largest. Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:57:00 GMT http://www.meatinternational.com/news/news/859/australia-beef-furious-over-fmd-proposal.html The Australian Beef Association (ABA) criticises recommendation to allow the import of live food-and-mouth viruses into Australia for research purposes. Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:54:00 GMT http://www.meatinternational.com/news/news/858/us-sausages-recalled.html T. Piekutowski European Style Sausage, based in St. Louis, on Thursday last week announced a voluntary recall of about 750 lbs. of sausage products due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:49:00 GMT http://www.meatinternational.com/news/news/854/ireland-dioxin-levels-cause-cattle-to-be-culled.html Cattle on 21 farms will be slaughtered due to dioxin levels in Ireland. Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:02:00 GMT http://www.meatinternational.com/news/news/853/us-production-in-main-meats-drop-in-decades.html It's the first time since 1973 that meat production across all the main categories will drop. Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:01:00 GMT http://www.meatinternational.com/news/news/852/australia-remain-2nd-biggest-beef-exporter.html Australia is expected to continue to be the world’s second largest beef exporter. Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT http://www.meatinternational.com/news/news/849/major-opportunity-for-aussie-beef-in-s%2E-africa.html A demand in South Africa for cheaper beef is an advantage for Australian farmers. Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:43:00 GMT http://www.meatinternational.com/news/news/850/philippines-rfm-corp%2E-gets-halal-accreditation.html RFM Corp. is now the only halal meat processing plant in the country... Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:42:00 GMT http://www.meatinternational.com/news/news/847/perdigao-cuts-meat-output-for-export.html Perdigao, Brazil's meat processor giant will lower pork exports. Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:38:00 GMT