Nose Cartilage? The Global Trade in Beef

An older but interesting article from the Wall Street Journal about how Brasilian beef carcasses are dismembered for the global trade. Nasal cartilage goes off to Hong Kong for soup, diaphragm fat goes to France for stroganof, and heart valves end up as shish kebab in Peru. Shouldn’t these facts be taken in to account [...]

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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 be [...]

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