Food News from My Part of Mexico: “Mexican” for Export

Gigante Verde (green giant) is going to build a new 1.5 hectare plant in Irapuato. Irapuato, about forty minutes drive from Guanajuato, is pretty much the agricultural capital of central Mexico. General Mills, which owns Gigante Verde, has been investing there since 1983.
Much of it is in frozen vegetables. The region, [...]

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Slaughtering Pigs in Romania (and Mexico)

By now it’s past but Romania and the European Union were at loggerheads over the Christmas pig. EU rules call for any pig slaughtered on the farm to be stunned before its throat is cut. All well and good.
Then Romania joined the EU and with it a population of 1.5 million pigs to [...]

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