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USDA Has Beef With Zombie Jerky

It's hard enough marketing snack foods to zombies without the U.S. Department of Agriculture being persnickety about the wording on the label. That's what Aaron Rasmussen of Harcos Laboratories, a Los Angeles-based maker of novelty products and food items, discovered last summer when the company decided to create Zombie...

Australian Cigarette Display Has US Smokers Burning

(April 22) -- An anti-smoking art display in Sydney, Australia, financed by a pharmaceutical company has some American smokers burning mad. To raise awareness about the perils of smoking, the Australian branch of Pfizer recently funded an installation at Sydney's Martin Place featuring 219,000 imitation cigarettes under...

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05/29/12 Beef Jerky Outlet Franchise CEO Scott Parker Featured... Source: PRWeb Seymour, Tennessee (PRWEB) May 29, 2012 Franchising is alive and well in a challenging economy.
05/09/12 Bulk Beef Jerky Offers Big Savings for Bulk Orders Source: EmailWire Beef jerky fanatics know that their local store has a limited supply of jerky along with a high price tag.
12/07/11 Mingua Beef Jerky to add 10 new jobs in Bourbon... Source: The Lane Report - Lexington KY Governor Steve Beshear yesterday announced Mingua Beef Jerky Inc., a family-owned manufacturer of assorted flavors of beef jerky, will expand into a new 30,000-square-foot building in the Paris/Bourbon County Industrial Park. The move will accommodate an increase in demand for its natural-style products, creating 10 new jobs and a more than $2 million investment.
05/10/11 Liza de Guia: Beef Jerky Shouldn't Taste Like Plastic:... Source: The Huffington Post "The SlantShack Laboratories are really a collection of just thought experiments, if you will. And it's through testing these waters and really pushing the envelope of jerky science - and meat culinary gastronomy in general - that we are able to kind of stumble upon, hopefully, stumble upon some breakthroughs."
11/18/10 Indiana cattlemen beef up the troops with jerky Source: AgriNews Online - LaSalle IL When people first think of the USO, they likely think of Bob Hope, not beef jerky.

Background on beef jerky

Jerky is lean meat that has been trimmed of fat, cut into strips, and then dried to prevent spoilage. Normally, this drying includes the addition of salt, to prevent bacteria from developing on the meat before sufficient moisture has been removed.

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