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Why Your Favorite Meats Could Soon Disappear!

If you are like 96% of the American population, you enjoy eating meat. Whether it’s steak, hamburger, pork, fish, or chicken, we consume on average, about eight ounces of meat per day; more than twice the global average.

But before we can eat that meat it needs to be processed; that is killed, cut up, packaged, and distributed.

And a good percentage of that meat that we enjoy eating is processed by small and independent meat processers located in the United States. However new regulation is threatening to put many of these smaller processers out of business.

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What’s in Season, Arizona?

There are so many fruits and vegetables in season in Arizona for the summer and into the fall! Check out the graphic below to see what is in season and how long it will be in season!

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Rescued Recipe: Short Ribs in Red Wine and Mushroom Sauce

If only my own Dad were here to sop up this mouthwatering meal! I can promise you, he would have ripped off a big hunk of fresh crusty Italian bread and mopped up every last drop of this slo-cooked Short Ribs in Red Wine sauce dish,

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7 Little Known Facts about Ice Cream

June is National Dairy Month, and what better way to celebrate than with ice cream!! So we’ll use this as an opportunity to throw some perhaps-untold facts about everyone’s favorite dairy treat.

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An Unusual Place to Find Sweet Corn

If you’ve ever eaten ripe and sugary sweet corn on the cob when it was just picked from the farm, you’ll swear you’ve just tasted a little bit of heaven. And people who have had that amazing taste experience, always long for more. Fortunately, for sweet corn lovers, that experience is available in one of the most unusual spots;

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