Latest Poultry processing Podcast Episodes
Ep. 171: A guide to cultured meat safety, regulatory approval
MeatingPod - July 15, 2024 05:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMore than any other segment of the alternative meats sector, cultivated meat is where innovation meets controversy. Long before it hits store shelves, meat grown in bioreactors has sparked a heated debate in the food culture wars. Government bans and social media backlash are complicating its pa...
Ep. 170: Forging a path on the AI frontier
MeatingPod - July 08, 2024 05:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this episode, Agrimesh Technologies Vice President of Sales and Operations Erik Longtin outlines how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is opening doors for farmers, growers — and, even some processors — to increase operating efficiencies, reduce costs and generate valuable data that can help impro...
From the vault: Transforming training into jobs
MeatingPod - July 01, 2024 05:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this episode, a panel of Danville Community College administrators and instructors describe a relationship the Virginia-based school has established with Tyson Foods Inc. The school offers a specific technical training program that gives eligible students who complete the program a chance to ...
From the vault: Flexibility in food safety
MeatingPod - June 24, 2024 05:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsBeyond managing programs at the University of Georgia’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences that focus on food safety protocols, Dr. Francisco Diez-Gonzalez also is the co-author of recent research into the eradication of Listeria monocytogenes using blue light and polymers. In th...
From the vault: Chunk ‘steaks’ its claim on restaurant menus
MeatingPod - June 17, 2024 05:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe Israeli plant-based meat company Chunk has skipped over the patties and nuggets that dominate the alt-meat space at retail in favor of filets that fit quite nicely among high-end steakhouse offerings. Using a fermentation process, Chunk replicates the “grain” of a whole cut of beef steak, so...
Ep. 166: Plant automation the Butterball way
MeatingPod - June 10, 2024 05:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe expanding role of automation and robotics in meat processing plants remains a hot topic as companies and workers adapt to systems that can improve yields, affect food safety and avoid potential worker injuries. In this episode, Neal Walsh, chief operating officer at Butterball LLC outlines h...
Ep. 165: Meeting the FSIS Salmonella challenge
MeatingPod - June 03, 2024 05:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsNow that USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued its final ruling designating Salmonella as an adulterant in raw, breaded and stuffed chicken products, poultry processors may soon be required take another look at their operations. In this episode, Dr. John Maurer from the School ...
From the vault: Juggling R&D, QA and Projects
MeatingPod - May 27, 2024 05:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsApplegate Farms Vice President of R&D, QA and Project Management at Applegate Farms Chad Clem wears a lot of hats as he guides his teams through the process of developing and fine-tuning the processor’s lines of all-natural and organic deli meats, bacon, sausage, chicken, snacks and cheese. In t...
Ep. 163: Experience Counts
MeatingPod - May 20, 2024 05:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsA few years ago, drawing comparisons between software development and food product development was seen as evidence of forward thinking. That phase didn’t last long, though, because food is not software — and nobody knows that better than JJ Kass, senior vice president and managing director for ...
Ep. 162: Cargill's Factory of the Future
MeatingPod - May 13, 2024 05:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWith major meat processors making bold investments in high-tech upgrades, companies like Cargill Inc. are seeing benefits in terms of increased efficiency, higher levels of plant safety, improved yields on the production line and workers with new skills. In this episode of MeatingPod, Enrique Vi...
Ep. 161: Transforming the GHG paradigm
MeatingPod - May 06, 2024 05:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsDrew Getty, vice president of environmental sustainability and government relations and chief compliance officer at Perdue Farms, provides insights into two greenhouse gas abatement programs that the poultry processor launched and expanded within six months. The program with GreenGasUSA has redu...
Ep. 160: Collaboration, flavors and R&D
MeatingPod - April 22, 2024 05:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsDeveloping custom flavors for new and existing foodservice and restaurant customers for sous vide proteins involves collaboration and communication, according to Keith Goerl, Vice President, R&D and Commercialization at Ed Miniat LLC. Successfully meeting client needs involves employing a variet...
Ep. 159: The lowdown on asset-light
MeatingPod - April 15, 2024 05:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAll meat analogue companies face a potentially huge hurdle right out of the gate: The cost of the physical plant necessary to make their particular foodstuffs, whether in the form of bioreactors or extruders or mixers, or any of an endless number of other pieces of equipment. And that doesn’t ac...
Ep. 158: Flexible automation, robotics updates
MeatingPod - April 08, 2024 05:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsDr. Konrad Ahlin, the senior robotics researcher at the Georgia Tech Research Institute provides updates on the use of flexible automated systems, robotics, artificial intelligence and virtual reality in food processing plants. He also outlines how these advances are affecting plant workers and ...
Ep. 157: New systems, avenues for poultry processing
MeatingPod - April 01, 2024 05:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this episode, Dr. Casey Owens and Dongyi Wang of the University of Arkansas discuss new advances in identifying quality defects on the chicken processing line and advances in robotics that can handle repetitive line functions like chicken hanging. Our guests also outline how students at the u...
Ep. 156: QA from feedlot to school to plant
MeatingPod - March 25, 2024 05:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsQuality assurance protocols don’t necessarily begin at the processing plant. The research that Dr. Ron Lemenager has conducted over his career shows that specific techniques even at the feedlot stage have a direct effect on the quality of the beef products that leave the plant. Beyond his resear...
Ep 156: QA from feedlot to school to plant
MeatingPod - March 25, 2024 05:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsQuality assurance protocols don’t necessarily begin at the processing plant. The research that Dr. Ron Lemenager has conducted over his career shows that specific techniques even at the feedlot stage have a direct effect on the quality of the beef products that leave the plant. Beyond his resear...
Ep. 155: Ambidextrous Cargill
MeatingPod - March 18, 2024 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAfter almost a half-dozen years immersed in the animal side of Cargill’s protein business, Elizabeth Gutschenritter has been at the helm of the conglomerate’s alternative proteins business since 2019. In a wide-ranging interview with Alt-Meat, she discussed how Cargill balances the differing cul...
From the Vault: Automation, robotics advances
MeatingPod - March 11, 2024 05:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMarty Linn, Director of Engineering at the Tyson Manufacturing Automation Center in Springdale, Ark., discusses advances and challenges he and his team face as they develop automated and robotics systems for use in chicken processing. The goal of boosting efficiency, reducing costs and worker sa...
Ep. 153: Addressing ongoing HPAI challenges
MeatingPod - March 04, 2024 06:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAs the latest wave of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) cases continues to wane after two years of confirmed outbreaks nationwide, our guests will outline where we stand now and what might be needed to improve monitoring and responses to new infections. Dr. Carol Cardona of the University...
Ep. 152: Advances in Kosher meat production
MeatingPod - February 26, 2024 06:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis episode will focus on a specific category of food products that includes meat that is marketed to individuals following strict Jewish dietary laws or those who appreciate the value of foods that carry the Kosher seal. Kleiman will outline the efforts meat processors (and other food companie...
From the Vault: Ivy Farms sees the cultivated supply chain differently
MeatingPod - February 19, 2024 06:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIvy Farms is a U.K.-based company that is helping build the alt-meat industry in that country. Ivy Farms’ business model is different from most: strictly B-to-B, focusing on just one part of the process — in this case, developing and growing the harvested cell lines used to make cultivated meat ...
Ep. 150: Progress on sustainability, GHG emissions
MeatingPod - February 12, 2024 06:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis episode centers on sustainability efforts that meat processors are seeking to make more effective and consistent and a company that offers a concept that helps entities move closer to those goals from the farm and ranch level. Indigo Ag works with a variety of consumer product companies by ...
Ep. 149: Transforming students into plant technicians
MeatingPod - February 05, 2024 06:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this episode, a panel of Danville Community College administrators and instructors describe a relationship the Virginia-based school has established with Tyson Foods Inc. The school offers a specific technical training program that gives eligible students who complete the program a chance to ...
Ep. 148: Flexibility in food safety
MeatingPod - January 22, 2024 06:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsBeyond managing programs at the University of Georgia’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences that focus on food safety protocols, Dr. Francisco Diez-Gonzalez also is the co-author of recent research into the eradication of Listeria monocytogenes using a combination of blue light an...
Ep. 147: Unlocking the Asian Market
MeatingPod - January 15, 2024 06:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsSingapore, Hong Kong, China, Indonesia, Malaysia — Asia is fertile ground for meat analogue R&D. One would expect a region with such a long history with non-meat proteins and so many people to feed would be a slam-dunk for alt-meat marketers, right? As it turns out, the role of food in Asian cul...
From the Vault: High-tech development, implementation
MeatingPod - January 08, 2024 06:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsDr. Jeyam Subbiah, Project Director of the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of Arkansas, outlines how five U.S. academic institutions are working together to achieve what he describes as a “transformational change” in poultry production. The USDA-backed research focuses...
Ep. 145: USPOULTRY updates, IPPE preview
MeatingPod - January 01, 2024 06:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsDr. Denise Heard shares inside information on research supported by U.S. Poultry & Egg Association and outlines how the latest outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) are affecting members of the all-feather organization. The director and coordinator of USPOULTRY's research program...
Ep. 144: From the vault – Addressing food safety challenges
MeatingPod - December 25, 2023 06:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMartin Bucknavage, senior food safety extension associate at the Penn State University Department of Food Science, discusses the latest advances he has seen in his role as a resource for meat companies and state regulators regarding food security and waste. His two decades of experience in the f...
Ep. 143: Chunk ‘steaks’ its claim on restaurant menus
MeatingPod - December 18, 2023 06:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIsraeli plant-based meat company, Chunk, has skipped over the patties and nuggets that dominate the alt-meat space at retail, in favor of filets that fit quite nicely among high-end steakhouse offerings. Using a fermentation process, Chunk replicates the “grain” of a whole cut of beef steak, so ...
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