Tag: food safety

  • What’s in That Chicken McNugget?

    What’s in That Chicken McNugget?

     photo from here I’ve been asked this question before on the blog – most recently in a comment from this post. And I’ve always forgotten to answer it; sorry, I’m not perfect and sometimes I forget. But McDonald’s of Canada has stepped up to the plate and become completely transparent in regards to what is…

  • Hyvee, Pink Slime (LFTB) and Stupidity

    It’s generally not common for shoppers to thank grocers for carrying certain products – we just expect them to be there and take for granted the different options available to us. There’s usually two or three different brands/varieties of each product on our grocery list, which allows us to be selective based on price, brand loyalty…

  • Pink Slime – It’s Meat

    ******First off, I want to say that yesterday a fantastic commentary was written about the pink slime issue. which you can read here. I was given a lot of praise and credit for apparently writing it but I want to make it clear that I didn’t write it – my husband, Hyatt Frobose, wrote that as a member of…

  • BOLD with BEEF!

    BOLD with BEEF!

    I love beef and now that I can be BOLD with beef, I’ve even more jazzed up about my favorite protein source. BOLD stands for Beef in an Optimal Lean Diet. The Iowa Beef Industry Council has recently brought light to research conducted at Penn State University that showed eating lean beef daily in a heart-healthy diet reduced the ‘bad’…

  • Delving Further into Antibiotic Use

    Happy Monday! As a brief follow up to this post, I found a podcast about antibiotic use in food animals from the AVMA media website. In this podcast, Dr. Scott Hurd, an associate professor of veterinary diagnostic and production animal medicine at Iowa State University, discusses quantitative risk assessments of antibiotic resistance in humans. He does…