Category: Program Features
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Insects: A Food Source for People and More
Would you eat food made of insects? Though the idea might make your skin crawl, insects provide a rich source of protein and minerals when used in meals. They also…
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Dessert Meat: Meatloaf Cake At MSABD?
Happy April Fools’ Day! While MSABD’s retail outlet does NOT plan to introduce meatloaf cake anytime soon, Bucky’s Varsity Meats continues to offer a wide variety of quality meat products…
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Would you feed your pet lab-grown meat?
The use of cultivated meat goes beyond just humans. Pets could soon consume lab-grown meat as well! Pet food–specifically cat and dog food–has shown to be responsible for up to…
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Vote In Wisconsin’s Best Burger Contest!
This past Wednesday, the Wisconsin Beef Council announced its inaugural “Wisconsin’s Best Burger Contest”. The contest opens Monday, February 26, and nominations will be accepted until midnight on Sunday, March…
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Wisconsin Beef Council Helps Area Schools Use Local Beef
When Wisconsin schools struggled to procure USDA commodity beef products during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wisconsin Beef Council stepped in to help the schools continue to meet requirements using beef…
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Cooking Up Booyah
With falling temperatures and the holidays around the corner, for many it is the perfect opportunity to cook up a batch of hearty booyah. The dish, which features cuts of…
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New University of Idaho Meat Lab Draws Similarities with MSABD
The University of Idaho (U of I) recently broke ground on their new Meat Science and Innovation Center Honoring Ron Richard. Richard, who passed away several years ago, ran Vandal…
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Auto-meat-ion: How is the Meat Industry Embracing New Technologies?
Robotics and automation are innovating the meat industry as we know it. These technologies are providing new opportunities to improve the efficiency and safety of processes, address labor shortages and…
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What is Lab-Grown Meat? Everything You Need to Know
The USDA recently approved lab-grown, or cultivated, chicken products to be produced and sold by Upside Foods and Good Meat in the United States. With this development, many are left…
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A Mammoth-Sized Meatball, Made of Actual Mammoth DNA?
Did you know that this meatball was made with wooly mammoth DNA? Check out this article from Smithsonian Magazine to learn more about this “mammoth meatball”, and how this lab-grown…
