The last thing the beef industry needs right now is apologists and cheerleaders. Blaming consumers doesn’t help much either. Alexander Hrycko wrote the Toronto Star about the creepy crawly recall of beef produced in Saskatchewan because of E. coli O157:H7 to say that “once again the beef industry in Canada is being unfairly targeted.

Social media holds a tremendous amount of potential for marketers looking to connect with consumers. Just ask David Bell, chief marketing officer for Houweling’s Tomatoes, a greenhouse tomato grower based in Camarillo, Calif., and Delta, B.C.

Politicians eating burgers does not, historically, inspire confidence.

Dr. Oz did a show a couple of years ago, would your home pass a restaurant inspection?, that was broadcast the other day in Australia (Days of Our Lives is at least two years behind; it’s all background).

During the influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 pandemic in 2009/10, a total of 13 consecutive surveys were carried out of the general population in Germany to monitor knowledge, attitude and behaviour concerning the disease and vaccination against pandemic influenza in real time.

WORTHINGTON — Each year, foodborne diseases kill approximately 2.2 million people around the world, and most of them are children. It’s an issue that impacts every country, with an average of 3,000 deaths recorded in the United States alone.

Dude it’s beef. That’s the slogan Midwestern governors came with to a press conference after a tour of the Beef Products Inc. plant in Nebraska yesterday, much like the background audience at a Today Show taping on the streets outside 30 Rock. It’s beef, but is it meat?