TheMeatSite Newsletter - 14 April 2010

Wednesday 14th April 2010

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Editorial: Meat Processing Industry Attracts Investment

Canada is investing in the meat processing industry in Ontario through its Economic Action plan.

A C$1.5-million investment has been made in Holly Park Meat Packers through the Government of Canada’s Slaughter Improvement Programme.

The Government of Canada’s C$50-million Slaughter Improvement Programme makes federal loans available to support sound business plans aimed at reducing costs, increasing revenues and improving operations of red meat packing and processing operations in Canada. Last month’s budget provided an additional C$10 million for the programme.

In the US, the consolidation of JBS USA's acquisitions continues as Pilgrims Pride has announced the closure of its headquarters in east Texas and and a satellite corporate office in Atlanta.

The Brazilian owned company has also annouced that it is setting up a Food Safety team, which will provide technical advice and recommendations to improve food safety efforts at the company.

Elsewhere, Tyson Foods has embarked on a $5 million upgrade of its poultry processing plant in Shelbyville, Tennessee.

Meanwhile, another Brazilian meat processing giant, Marfrig, is to build chicken farms and poultry meat processing plants in Mato Grosso state through itsd subsidiary, Seara Alimentos S/A.

Chris Harris

This Week's Feature Articles

We have 5 new features this week:

Impacts of Increasing Meat Consumption
Continuing along the existing global trajectory of increasing meat and dairy consumption is likely to lead to further agricultural intensification of both crop yields and farm animal production systems plus, in the case of the ‘western high meat’ diet, massive land use change, according to the report, Eating the Planet for Compassion in World Farming.

Proteomic Analysis of Bovine Muscles during Aging
Three structural proteins, alpha-actinin, tropomyosin, and a fragment of myosin heavy chain, changed during the aging process in beef suggesting that it is important to release these proteins in order to increase postmortem tenderness a report to the Iowa State University Animal Industry round table says.

South Korea Food Processing and Ingredients Bi-Annual Report 2010
Korea is a major importer of raw materials and ingredients for food processing. About 70 per cent of food products in Korea are imported, according to the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service. The size of the Korean food processing industry is estimated at $50 billion for 2008.

International Meat Review - 1 April 2010
The US inventory of all hogs and pigs was 63.99 million head, according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)quarterly Hogs and Pigs report, the latest International Meat Review says.

2010 US and World Agricultural Outlook
The slowdown in the world economy in 2009 proved to be deeper and more widespread than originallyanticipated, with an annual rate of real GDP growth of -1.9 per cent, according to the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute 2010 US and World Agricultural Outlook.