Oct 26 - By Associated Press
Police say a truck loaded with sides of beef overturned on the Massachusetts Turnpike, strewing meat along the highway by a toll plaza.
Oct 20 - By Carson Walker, Associated Press Writer
The owner of a South Dakota packing plant who left behind 44 tons of rotting kosher bison meat when he relocated his business to Minnesota has agreed to pay part of the cost of cleaning up the mess, his attorney said.

Oct 4 - By Carson Walker, Associated Press Writer
Behind the freezer doors at a meat plant mysteriously abandoned by its owner, the 44 tons of bison meat managed to hold its own for months, masked by the brutal chill of two South Dakota winters.

Sep 16 - By Emily Fredrix, AP Food Industry Writer
A Brazilian meat conglomerate could leap ahead of American meat producer Tyson Foods Inc. to become the world's largest meat company with two deals announced Wednesday that would expand its interests in beef, dairy and chicken.
Mar 23 - By Carla K. Johnson, AP Medical Writer
The largest study of its kind finds that older Americans who eat large amounts of red meat and processed meats face a greater risk of death from heart disease and cancer. The federal study of more than half a million men and women bolsters prior evidence of the health risks of diets laden with red meat like hamburger and processed meats like hot dogs, bacon and cold cuts.

Feb 11 - By Brian Alexander, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
With attention focused on the danger of salmonella in tainted peanut products, it’s easy to forget that foodborne bacterial poisoning more often results from eating contaminated meat, poultry or raw eggs.
Jan 24 - By Associated Press
The Canadian food maker linked to a bacteria outbreak that caused at least 20 deaths and the country's largest meat recall last year has again tested positive for listeria.
Jan 20 - By Associated Press
Italian customs police have arrested five people in separate drug busts, including two Brazilians who tried smuggling in cocaine hidden between packaged meat slices. Police at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport said Tuesday they seized 33 pounds of the drug last week.
Jan 3 - By Associated Press
A federal judge in Brooklyn has rejected a Liberian woman's religious reasons for smuggling endangered monkey meat into the country.
Dec 18 - By Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press Writer
Lab tests on cattle at four Irish farms have found much higher levels of cancer-causing dioxins than initially thought, government agency officials said, but they stressed that the problem still posed no risk to public health.
Dec 10 - By Associated Press
The European Union Food Safety Authority says it doesn't see health concerns for the vast majority of consumers who may have eaten tainted Irish pork.

Dec 9 - By Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press Writer
Irish ham, sausages and bacon began returning to Ireland's store shelves Wednesday after the European Union's food experts ruled that dioxin-tainted pork posed no credible health risk to those who had eaten it.
Nov 20 - By Associated Press
Police are trying to figure out who keeps leaving chunks of meat on the town common, and why. Police said residents have been finding butcher-quality cuts of meat on the common for about five weeks. In the most recent incident, a resident discovered a large piece of raw, unwrapped meat, along with what appeared to be a liver and some bones on Tuesday.

Nov 18 - By JoNel Aleccia, health writer, msnbc.com
A potentially deadly intestinal germ increasingly found in hospitals is also showing up in a more unsavory setting: grocery store meats.
Nov 5 - By Associated Press
A Boise man has been charged with four counts of felony burglary after police accused him of stealing more than $1,000 worth of meat from a local grocery store.

Oct 29 - By Shannon Dininny, Associated Press Writer
Cody Easterday estimates that some 25 percent of the cattle at his 30,000-head feedlot come from Canada, with maybe a few cattle from Mexico in the pens.
Sep 17 - By Associated Press
A food company said Wednesday it has reopened a processing plant that was shut down for nearly a month after it was linked to tainted meat that caused a bacteria outbreak that killed 17 people across Canada.

Aug 26 - By Charles Babington, Associated Press Writer
Democrats used the second night of their four-day convention to punch back more aggressively at John McCain, even as some party insiders warned that hitting too forcefully might jeopardize Barack Obama's upbeat, all-inclusive image.

Aug 20 - By Associated Press
The president of a Canadian food company is taking responsibility for tainted meat products from a Toronto processing plant reaching the marketplace and causing a national outbreak of a deadly bacteria linked to the deaths of 15 people.

Jul 11 - By Associated Press
Canine cuisine is being sent to the doghouse during next month's Beijing Olympic Games.

Jun 6 - By NBC Nightly News
Is anybody else creeped out by that AT&T GoPhone commercial starring chart-topping American rock singer Meat Loaf? You know, the one where he’s out working in the garage or something and actor Adam Cagley (in the role of Meat Loaf’s beefy teenage son) starts whining about wanting a GoPhone.
May 17 - By Associated Press
Federal officials say a Chicago-based company is recalling beef products distributed in 11 states because of possible E. coli contamination.

May 9 - By Brian Charlton, The Associated Press
Meat retailers can now trace their wares from the ranch to the refrigerator case using DNA analysis.
May 3 - By Associated Press
A New York food company is recalling more than 286,000 pounds of meat and poultry because it might be contaminated with the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes.
Apr 22 - By Associated Press
Animal rights activists are offering scientists a $1 million reward if they can produce commercially viable meat in a laboratory.