Meat industry

Slaughtered elk has been ground, wrapped and frozen in Garet Jones’ butchering facility in Liberty. Jones says he just sees this venture as an opportunity to hire some people from the valley and a chance to make some money. (CHARLES F. TRENTELMAN/Standard-Examiner)

Elk-processing operation in Ogden Valley upsets neighbors

LIBERTY -- Garet Jones converted his grandfather's old bomb shelter into a meatpacking operation, but his neighbors, angry that dead elk are being cut up next door, want him to shut it down.

The dispute is awaiting a nonbinding opinion before the Utah Property Rights Ombudsman, which will decide whether butchering elk constitutes "agriculture."

Nicholas Genovese's research into meat is funded by an animal-rights group. His far-reaching goal is to grow muscle meat separate from the animal -- in a lab and then factories. (Scott Canon/Kansas City Star/MCT)

Petrimeat? Scientist trying to create meat in a dish

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Nicholas Genovese is a lab-coated collection of incongruities.

He's being bankrolled by an animal rights group to make meat.

The molecular biologist is working in a lab at a land-grant university that pulls in millions in grants for its research on livestock. Yet the money backing him pushes the desire to end the use of animals as food.

Meat industry unhappy with proposal to limit antibiotics in animals

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- For decades, factory farms have used antibiotics even in healthy animals to promote faster growth and prevent disease that could sicken livestock held in confined quarters.

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