Chalk it up to leaner herds, evolving tastes, the U.S. Dollar, and vaccinations: America has a new meat champion. New information shows that pork has recently surpassed beef as America's second most-consumer meat in the country. Chicken remains in first place.
Let's face it - groceries have never been cheap. And prices have hardly (if ever) gone backwards. But, forecasters are predicting that the summer of 2014 will probably bring all-time high record prices in the meat department of your grocery store.
Is "the Other White Meat" on it's way to becoming "thee white meat"?
A recent survey of the nation's restaurants show that pork offerings are up significantly.
Over the past year, menu mentions of pork have increased by 7 percent, according to the foodservice consulting group’s MenuMonitor database...