Read more beef stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/2392/beef.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 14:18:05 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73561/how-arbys-lost-its-beefiness.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe recession has had its winners and losers, and when it comes to fast food, Arby's is bringing up the rear. Same-stores sales have been down for the last seven quarters, writes Daniel Gross for Slate, but the economy can't take the entire rap on this one: Arby's just doesn't...http://www.newser.com/story/73561/how-arbys-lost-its-beefiness.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 08 Nov 2009 10:26:50 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72701/you-not-only-can-eat-new-veal-you-should.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSome conscientious objectors to eating veal are not only reconsidering their stance, they are doing an about-face. The new hot product at top restaurants is “humanely raised” veal—calves no longer wrenched from their mothers and raised in cages, but brought to slaughter after an idyllic, if short, life at...http://www.newser.com/story/72701/you-not-only-can-eat-new-veal-you-should.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 28 Oct 2009 11:07:07 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70909/ground-beef-rife-with-e-coli-risk.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA nausea-inducing feature in the New York Times tells you more than you wanted to know about what's actually in commercially produced hamburger, and why it's especially vulnerable, despite FDA regulation and several fatal outbreaks in recent years, to E. coli contamination. The Times follows the case of a 22-year-old...http://www.newser.com/story/70909/ground-beef-rife-with-e-coli-risk.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 04 Oct 2009 8:19:14 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66289/calif-plant-recalls-ground-beef-on-salmonella-fears.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA California meatpacking plant has issued a recall for 800,000 pounds of ground beef it fears may be tainted with salmonella, the Los Angeles Times reports. The ground beef from Beef Packers, Inc. is sold under various retail names in California, Arizona, Colorado and Utah. The recall came after...http://www.newser.com/story/66289/calif-plant-recalls-ground-beef-on-salmonella-fears.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 06 Aug 2009 15:54:26 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64032/burger-king-sorry-for-whopper-goddess.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHold the sauce—and the beef. Burger King has apologized to Hindus following a firestorm of controversy over the chain's use of the multi-limbed goddess Lakshmi in a Whopper ad, reports the Telegraph . Burger King immediately yanked the ads from outlets in Spain after Hindus complained that it denigrated their...http://www.newser.com/story/64032/burger-king-sorry-for-whopper-goddess.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 10 Jul 2009 1:21:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62401/mcds-huge-angus-burger-to-go-national.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMcDonald’s will roll out its deluxe Angus burger nationwide later this year, the Chicago Tribune reports. Until now, the one-third-of-a-pound burger made with premium beef has been available only in a handful of test markets. Though the fast-food chain has said publicly it would delay the launch until next year...http://www.newser.com/story/62401/mcds-huge-angus-burger-to-go-national.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 20 Jun 2009 12:54:16 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/57241/wayward-bull-steers-into-supermarket.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA wayward bull nearly locked horns with employees as it slipped through sliding glass doors and raced up aisles in a supermarket in Ireland, reports the Guardian . The animal, which escaped from a nearly outdoor market, butted a shopping cart that workers used to try to corral him, and chased...http://www.newser.com/story/57241/wayward-bull-steers-into-supermarket.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 26 Apr 2009 7:27:04 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/57031/bovine-industry-boon-cow-genome-sequenced.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA 5-year, $53 million project has resulted in the sequencing of the cow genome, the Houston Chronicle reports. The results will likely take the guesswork out of breeding, but also mark the end of big-money sequencing projects. “It was pretty dumb to do the cow for $50 million when the...http://www.newser.com/story/57031/bovine-industry-boon-cow-genome-sequenced.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 23 Apr 2009 16:30:20 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/54163/eating-red-meat-daily-raises-death-risk-study.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDaily consumption of red meat has been linked to higher mortality rates in the most comprehensive study on the subject ever made, the Washington Post reports. Researchers studied more than 500,000 middle-aged and elderly Americans and found that those who consumed 4 ounces of red meat a day were...http://www.newser.com/story/54163/eating-red-meat-daily-raises-death-risk-study.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 24 Mar 2009 3:35:25 CDT