Meat & Seafood Department News

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The Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming recently urged Congress to end overuse of antibiotics in food animal production by enacting the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act.

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3 weeks 5 days ago

Big Timber Meats is an organic meat processor that your Co-op works with to process much of the high quality, local and/or organic goods in our Meat Case.
Learn more about this local business and read a recent article that profiles them:

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3 weeks 5 days ago

This week, the FDA considers approving genetically altered salmon and Greenpeace targets Costco on the company’s lack of a transparent and meaningful sustainable seafood policy.

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13 weeks 16 hours ago

The Co-op is producing our own sausages using locally-raised meats and organic spice blends. These are great products made with high quality, sustainably-raised meat. How do we insure that? Here, we’re big on a concept we call, source verifiability.

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14 weeks 6 days ago

How do we reclaim our nation’s farms, communities and nutritional identities? Amaltheia Organic Goat Dairy is reintroducing the consumer and the producer and making notable strides in sustainable operations.

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32 weeks 13 hours ago

New York Times – Go local. Eat organic. Buy fresh. If the motivation is to truly make our diets more earth-friendly, then perhaps we need a new mantra: Buy frozen.

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36 weeks 4 days ago

Most people share at least the following traits: they want to be healthy; they like animals; and they value clean air and water. Yet relatively few Americans connect those concerns with their food.

As more people start making the link, many decide it’s time to stop eating foods from factory farms. This is a guide for doing just that.

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47 weeks 16 hours ago

Wild Salmon: Lummi Island Wild Salmon is a brand new addition to our Meat and Seafood Case.

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50 weeks 1 day ago

We suggest you try a delicious bison patty from Broken Willow Bison Ranch. They’re sure to be finger lickin’ good; and good for you.

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50 weeks 5 days ago

Ho-hum. Another recall of ground beef laced with antibiotic-resistant salmonella. This one’s so big, you could make a burger for everyone in Los Angeles with the tainted stuff. Not that you should.

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