by Jen Kendrick | Jun 22, 2020 | Beyond Bacon
A handful of mainstream media outlets, including The New York Times, have in recent days swallowed what a few fringe groups are peddling in their latest attempts to malign the meat industry. This time, it has to do with exports. We’ll get to it. But let’s revisit what...
by Jen Kendrick | May 7, 2020 | Beyond Bacon
NC Department of Health and Human Services’ Sec. Mandy Cohen May 7, 2020 briefing 17:00 – 20:13 “The food processing plants in our state are critical to our keeping up our food supply not only here in North Carolina but around the country, around the...
by Jen Kendrick | Apr 21, 2020 | Beyond Bacon, NCPC News
https://ncpork.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/NC-Pork_BBQ-Relief_Cropped_High.mp4 They weren’t cooking whole hogs and there wasn’t a judge in sight, but in mid-April, cooks from the North Carolina Pork Council’s Whole Hog Barbecue Series showed up to...
by Jen Kendrick | Mar 20, 2020 | Beyond Bacon
The federal government has issued formal guidance to the nation about the “essential critical infrastructure workforce” and the “special responsibility” to maintain continuity amid a national effort to slow the spread of COVID-19. It should be no surprise that farmers...
by Jen Kendrick | Mar 17, 2020 | Beyond Bacon
The following was sent as a letter to the editor of local papers by a pig farmer and NCPC board member: As Americans begin dealing with the spread of COVID-19, they can learn a lot from the example set by our nation’s farmers. For years, livestock farmers in North...
