Dive Brief:
Line speeds at U.S. pork plants will be slowing down after a federal judge ruled the U.S. Department of Agriculture s removal of processing speed limits did not adequately take worker safety into consideration. The ruling was filed on March 31, and USDA was given 90 days until the end of June to rework the regulations.
USDA has notified pork processors that they should prepare to process no more than 1,106 hogs an hour as a result of this ruling the processing speed limit prior to rule revamps in 2019, The Wall Street Journal reported and USDA confirmed to Food Dive. No official changes to the rule have been published in the Federal Register or promoted on USDA s website.
Epicurious phases out beef recipes in âpro-planetâ decision
Existing beef recipes will remain available on the popular online cooking website.
(Tony Cenicola | New York Times file photo) Epicurious, the popular cooking website, said it would no longer feature recipes that have beef as an ingredient because of the cattle industryâs effects on climate change.
By Derrick Bryson Taylor and Christina Morales | The New York Times
  | May 1, 2021, 12:00 p.m.
Could an empire of the kitchen quietly stop cooking with beef and leave no one the wiser?
That appears to be the feat accomplished by Epicurious, the popular online recipe bank where home cooks have gone to hone their skills for a quarter of a century. The editors there revealed to readers this week that not only were they done with new recipes containing beef, but they had been phasing them out for more than a year.
The last movie I saw in a theater was
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. It was the day after Christmas, 2019, and we didn’t know what was about to happen just three months later.
Not that I go to the movies that often, though I did plan to see the James Bond film
No Time to Die when it was originally scheduled to open last spring (it’s currently scheduled for October). But even though I’m not what you would call a regular movie-goer, I still feel a sadness that so many movie theater chains and small theaters have closed over the past 12 months, either temporarily or permanently, including the Cinerama in Hollywood. And since the pandemic started, people have been asking, will we actually want to go to a crowded movie theater again?
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Epicurious drops beef going forward in favor of more plant-based recipes – but is the move ‘elitist’ or ‘one of the best decisions’? By Elizabeth Crawford The popular recipe and home cooking platform Epicurious is dropping beef from its repertoire going forward in favor of more plant-based options to amplify the conversation about sustainable diets, stem the steady uptick in beef sales in the US and give its readers more of what they want.
Epicurious announced April 26 that beef will no longer appear in new recipes, articles, newsletters, the website’s homepage or other social media platforms – formally recognizing a move it began piloting more than a year ago.