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Anyone who has grown up in farm country is probably familiar with the fact that pigs can be stinky. In fact, they can stink way worse than the neighborhood kid you knew growing up that never took a bath or ...

Before the age of modern refrigeration, most people relied on what we would consider primitive methods to preserve meats. If you were wealthy, or had the means, you might have relied on ice to preserve some foods. The extremely wealthy ...

Have you noticed lately that more and more products on your grocery store shelves have labels that read “made with real butter” and “made with real cream?” Consumers, it seems, are getting wise to the fact that real is better. ...

Most Americans are familiar with the old adage “waste not, want not,” but as a nation we certainly do not follow it. Americans are guilty of throwing away 40 percent of the food – a whopping $165 billion worth — ...

Most survivalists strive to have an impressive array of stored food, ready for consumption when disaster strikes. This stored food often consists of freeze-dried meat, vegetables and meals (25-year shelf life), nitrogen-packed corn, rice and wheat (10-year shelf life), and ...

From the time people roamed the earth as hunter-gatherers, their very survival might have depended on preserving meat — their main source of protein — to tide them over in times of scarcity. Burying portions of the kill deep in ...

In the age of the Internet and microwaves, we tend to expect ease and instant gratification to be a perpetual way of life. We can buy a hundred pounds of meat, stick it in the freezer and eat off of ...

“Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food,” said Hippocrates. But aren’t we interpreting it the wrong way when we put antibiotics in the animals we rear for food? But that’s exactly what we have been doing for ...

Eating meat could become a thing of the past if two of the biggest names in technology get their way. Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Google co-founder Sergey Brin are both promoting the idea that meat is bad for the ...

Processed foods, or convenience foods, are foods that have been changed in some way, shape, or form to make them easier and cheaper to eat. In order to make these changes, most of these convenience foods have been highly processed ...