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Meat Talk 07 – Can robotics solve the labor shortage?
Labor shortages put major pressure on processing plants across the globe, from the established markets of Europe and North America, to the developing markets of Nigeria and India. Velo Mitrovich...
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Meat Talk 08 – How do you grow the lamb business?
Lamb is the world’s most popular red meat with fans in all countries except for one – the USA where a staggering 40 percent of the population has never even tasted lamb. And, to add insult to injury to...
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Why Amazon’s buyout is great news for you
Your craft meat company has everything going for it except for one thing – supermarkets won’t touch you because you can’t afford to offer them the same deal as the big players. Do you pack your bags...
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Meat Talk 10 – Russia: the next Klondike
It might seem like an odd time to be talking about Russia. The USA and Russia are wiping the dust off their old Cold War launch codes, there is talk of more sanctions being placed on Russia, and even...
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Meat Talk 11 – Russia: part 2
We continue our profile of Russia’s agricultural industry, looking at what you need to know if you want to do business in Russia, and what makes Russian’s tick. You need a lot of money to make it in...
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Meat Talk 12 – Pinning hope on the Millennials
Editor Velo Mitrovich is fresh back from a visit to Greece. In this episode he is why all his hope for this industry is resting on the Millennials. The boomers are the most selfish generation every to...
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Meat Talk 11 – California: the tail that wags the dog
Waving flag of California Once again voters in California will be going to the polls to decide how Midwest farmers are going to raise their livestock. This will leave USA’s big Ag gnashing its teeth at...
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Meat Talk 12 – Insects as a future protein
While for us in the States and Europe there is a massive ‘yuck and disgust’ factor, for 2 billion people around the world, eating our six, eight, and more-legged friends is a way of life. In a new...
View ArticleMeat Talk 15 – Knights of the road
It’s hard to believe today, but once truck drivers were seen as knights of the road and the subject of feel-good songs and films. But as that image has faded, so too has their paychecks. Throughout the...
View ArticleMeat Talk 16 – The little engine that could
Indonesia has been called many things over the years but let’s give you one more name of the massive archipelago – Indo-opportunities. The country has the world’s fourth largest population and in those...
View Article1 – raising the steaks in China
Meat Talk is the first podcast for the international meat and poultry industry. In this first episode MPJ editor Velo Mitrovich gives his insight on the challenges and opportunities that China holds...
View Article2 – Greece in crisis
In this episode MPJ editor Velo Mitrovich has travelled to Greece to see how the financial crisis is changing the meat industry. While Greece might be the founder of modern civilization, The New York...
View Article3 – Bringing home the bacon
Call it meat candy, food from gods, or the best thing mankind has ever invented; bacon continues to move into new territory in the USA – can the rest of the world be far behind? In this episode, MPJ...
View Article4 – Steak tales
Do you remember the best piece of chicken breast you’ve ever eaten? The best burger or even the best pork chop? Of course not, they just get lost in the protein haze of our recollections. But steak,...
View Article5 – Keeping chicks happy
In a press release put out earlier this year from the San Francisco- headquartered Happy Egg Company it stated: “Everyone knows I have a soft spot for animals and want to see all animals treated with...
View Article6 – The fight against sensationalized research
Scientific research is big business and getting the results published with headline grabbing spin has become part and parcle of ensuring future funding. But these sensationalized results are not only...
View Article17 – North Carolina tsunami
A recent court case decision in the US south against a pig producer is going to send shockwaves around the world. If you farm, produce, or process pork, beef, poultry, or even Pacific Northwest...
View Article18 – Holy Cow!
As every visitor to India since Alexander the Great can tell you, it’s a country of contradictions. While it’s world’s largest Hindu nation, where cows have been revered and considered sacred for...
View Article19 – The battle of the plant burgers
Americans love their burgers, eating around 50 billion a year, which works out to an average of three a week for each person. While these billions include chicken, turkey, ostrich, kangaroo, bison, and...
View Article20 – Pressure to kill
In 1963, the US nuclear attack submarine Thresher was lost at sea after an accident put her past her crush depth of 2,400 feet. In around 1/20 of a second, the boat imploded, releasing the same energy...
View Article21 Tracking the Killer
Back in 2006, an E. coli outbreak in the USA killed five people, made hundreds ill, and left scientists scratching their heads. They suspected strongly raw packaged spinach was the cause, but where was...
View Article22 – A love of chicken feet
It’s a tale of two feet – chicken feet that is. Scorned by the West and loved in Asia, with the world’s poultry industry producing around 100 billion feet a year, do you fill up landfills with chicken...
View Article23 – Pet food gold rush (part 1)
One of the fastest moving, biggest growth industries is not chicken, burgers, plant protein, or even anything for the Millennials. No, it’s food for our four-legged best friends. Whatever you think the...
View ArticlePet food, the rendering gem (part 2)
In Part I of pet food we talked about how the globally industry will reach somewhere between $78 billion to $94 billion this year – don’t even ask about the value of baby food because it doesn’t even...
View Article25 – How Poland became Europe’s poultry king
When Meat Talk visited Poland, things were getting a bit crazy weather-wise. Hotter than blazes, even the animals were feeling it with livestock going off feed and wolves attacking people. But, besides...
View Article26 – The birth of a red meat world
If you visit a modern meat, poultry, or even fish processing plant, you might be surprised at how similar they are – no matter where you are in the world. But what surprise you even more that all our...
View Article27 – It’s in the gas
It must have been 2004. I was at Brussel’s Seafood, the largest seafood show in the world, and was looking at a mussel company’s display. The mussels were sealed in black plastic boxes, each holding...
View Article28 – History of Red Meat (part 2) – or why Camelot fell
It’s odd knowing you lived through a Golden Age but I have, the golden age of the meat industry worker. As far as Golden Ages go, this one was actually pretty good as long as you weren’t a cow. It...
View Article29 – Get a grip on jerky
In this episode we’ll be talking about meat snacks, one of the most exciting sub-industries in the world’s meat/poultry whole-shebang. Why do we think this? Taken as a whole – meaning jerky, biltong,...
View Article30 – History of Red Meat (part 3) – The future of Red Meat
When we decided to cover the history of the red meat industry, we thought it would be just one episode. We were wrong. After we started looking at the past 100 years of the red meat processing...
View Article31 – The next poultry Klondike
While once saying the word ‘Klondike’ to a gold prospector brought about a sudden distant look off to the far horizon, today it’s a term used in the finance sector and in the commercial fishing...
View Article33 – Slow news day
An egg producer comes to your food safety agency about a slightly high level of a very regulated insecticide in his eggs. How it got there, he has no idea, but suspects a detergent he’s been using to...
View Article33 – Chlorination Street
While it might seem hard to believe but once upon a time, the British people weren’t giving a thought to US chicken washed in chlorine, nor were there any US poultry producers even looking on a map to...
View Article34 – Rise of the low meat sausage
In this episode Producer Rhian Owen looks into the boom in UK sausage sales and how it has spawn a trend for low meat sausages. Taking advantage of this trend is fraught with difficulties as the...
View Article#35 Japan and US beef – is the love affair over?
The USA’s largest export market for beef and pork is Japan, but perhaps never before has this market been hanging on tethers such as it is now. With a lack of trade deal, countries that do have one...
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