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Healthy food: Eat less dark-green, more orange

December 20, 2011 kelseyjpope@gmail.com 43 Comments #agblog, #foodthanks, family, food, food prices, food production, grains, healthy food, local food, meat

I want to point out an article from Feedstuffs FoodLink about the cost of healthy foods and what we can expect to pay this year for healthy food. The article states that diets normally are a diverse makeup of foods — some that are more healthful and some that are not as healthful — and […]

Consistency in Beef

December 8, 2011 kelseyjpope@gmail.com 1,415 Comments #agblog, 10 Greatest Beef Innovations, beef, facts, food production, healthy food, history, legislation, meat, research

Part 9: I find this beef innovation particularly interesting and important – mostly because I enjoy a great, juicy steak and am glad I can rely on the grading system of beef to provide that! From the beginning, beef was more about protein than pleasure and used as draft animals or for milk until they […]

Veggies intruding your mail

December 1, 2011 kelseyjpope@gmail.com 1,659 Comments #agblog, agriculture, meat, vegetarian

Pamela Anderson is on a postage stamp. But it’s not for what you think. According to Drovers, back in September, the U.S. Postal Service announced that living people would now be eligible to be featured on stamps. The Postmaster General said, “This change will enable us to pay tribute to individuals for their achievements while […]

Meat causes Cancer? I think not.

November 14, 2011 kelseyjpope@gmail.com 32 Comments #agblog, #foodthanks, beef, facts, food production, healthy food, meat, research

We’ve all heard this. Don’t drink diet sodas – it causes cancer. Don’t eat processed foods – it causes cancer. Don’t eat MEAT – it causes cancer. The sad reality is…we don’t know what all cancers are derived from. I found this great blog post from Food, Think! with some great research background with seven […]

Livestock ID/traceability important for export markets

September 29, 2011 kelseyjpope@gmail.com 1,949 Comments agriculture, beef, exports, feeding the world, food production, healthy food, Japan, K-State, meat, meat production, modern agriculture, research, traceability

When I was in Japan in July for the Nebraska corn-fed beef mission with the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF), we had the chance to visit a large and very nice supermarket. In that supermarket, it specifically partitioned out the different countries that the meat was from: U.S. beef in one section; Aussie beef right […]

The Pioneer Woman | Agvocate

August 29, 2011 kelseyjpope@gmail.com 2 Comments #foodthanks, agriculture, agvocate, animal advocacy, animal welfare, beef, family, food production, healthy food, livestock, meat, meat production, modern agriculture, photos, video

Thanks to my wonderful sister-in-law, Lindsay, for introducing me to The Pioneer Woman and her blog. P-Dub, as she sometimes calls herself, is a self-proclaimed city girl now ranch-wife and mom. She is an excellent writer, shares about homeschooling, cooks healthy and hearty food, and a great photographer. But what I love most about her […]

NYC “meating-up” Mondays

July 26, 2011 kelseyjpope@gmail.com 35 Comments #foodthanks, beef, healthy food, meat, meat production, pork production, poultry, Veganism

“Meatless Mondays” are just too mundane for Chef Christian Ragano of New York Central restaurant in the Grand Hyatt New York. According to Meatingplace.com, the culinarian has turned the idea on its head and introduced “Meat-filled Mondays” at his popular Midtown eatery. As reported by the NY1 all-news channel in New York, the Monday menu […]

Serving U.S. Beef to Japan Tsunami Evacuees

July 20, 2011 kelseyjpope@gmail.com 36 Comments agriculture, beef, feeding the world, history, Japan, meat, photos

Imagine traveling through the Japan countryside, through beautiful, green rice paddies and tree covered mountains when you turn the bend and see the coast. You can easily see the water two miles away because what once was thriving coastal cities, is now a layer of debris, mostly flat except for the piles that workers […]

U.S. Beef BBQ in Japan

July 17, 2011 kelseyjpope@gmail.com 1,617 Comments agriculture, beef, feeding the world, food production, healthy food, Japan, meat, photos

I returned from Japan last week on a corn-fed beef trade mission with Nebraska Corn Board and the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) and wanted to share on some my observations. I helped organize this trip as a trade mission to help promote Nebraska corn-fed beef and a way for the Nebraska farmers that organized […]

Wordless Wednesday | U.S. Beef in Japan

July 13, 2011 kelseyjpope@gmail.com 1,818 Comments beef, feeding the world, food production, Japan, meat, meat production, Wordless Wednesday

I just returned from Japan – more updates to come but I’ll share a few pictures of U.S. beef in Japan: Check out more pictures on our team’s Flickr album.