Blog posts tagged 'Industrial Beef':


The grocery store canā€™t even tell you what *country* their beef & pork is from

March 8th, 2019 by Joe Heitzeberg • Read 17,599 times • 1 min read

In 2016, industrial beef companies ā€” who control over 80% of the beef market in the United States ā€” successfully lobbied to remove the Country of Origin Labeling requirements from packaging. In plain English, this means that beef and pork sellers in the United States arenā€™t even required to tell you what country the beef and pork you buy came from. Here's the problem. Everyone selling meat uses stock art photos of small farms and says...

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Why is it important to know where your food comes from?

February 21st, 2019 by Joe Heitzeberg • Read 14,198 times • 1 min read

Ask anyone ā€œifā€ itā€™s important to know where the food you eat comes from, and nearly everyone will say yes. Ask them ā€œwhy, exactly?ā€ and even the most discerning eaters will struggle to give precise answers. I think itā€™s important to start a dialogue about this topic, so itā€™s a question Iā€™ll be asking everyone we interview on our forthcoming podcast, ā€œLet's Meat Up.ā€ As the Co-founder and CEO of Crowd Cow, Iā€™m uncovering answers to the...

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Recent beef recalls reinforceā€‹ the importance of food transparency & traceability

February 19th, 2019 by Joe Heitzeberg • Read 4,689 times • 1 min read

Imagine that last summer, one of the popular soft drink makers encountered a production issue that caused people all over the country who consumed their products to become sick. You wouldn't expect Consumer Reports to say something like, 'based on our investigation, we recommend that you throw away any soft drinks of any brand that you may have purchased last summer.' But that's almost exactly what happened last December, when Consumer...

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Why all meat delivery services arenā€™t created equal ā€” hereā€™s how we do itā€‹

January 20th, 2019 by Joe Heitzeberg • Read 13,131 times • 3 min read

These days, youā€™ll find a few choices of online meat sellers, but only one that provides quality, variety and 100% direct access to the individual farms that raised the meat. Crowd Cow is a true, scaled alternative to the commodity meat regime that supplies everyone else ā€• and we do things better. Hereā€™s how: The Highest Quality & Greatest Selection We've scoured the country for years, selecting only the very best independent and...

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