Meat the Truth with Kadie Graves

This week we sit down with Brandon Fields from PIC to discuss about the evolution of pork quality and learn about the past and current challenges faced by the pork industry. Brandon Fields is a Global Director in Applied Meat Science at PIC (Pig Improvement Company) and during his career he has studied pigs to improve production and genetic potential of pigs.

Our very fist guest on this show is back! Dr. John M. Gonzalez, who is an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia, returns to discuss about the use of growth promotants in animal production and its impact on meat quality.

Today we have a new format in which we talk about a variety of topics with Dr. Phil Bass.   Dr. Francisco recently traveled to South America to learn and assist meat processors, and in this episode he shares his experiences and debates the importance of learning how other countries process meat.   Among these are the effects of injections, producer-consumer communication, and meat industry academia.

In this episode we sit down with Maria Bueso Ponce from Honduras. Her passion for meat science has led her to become a leader in the meat industry in Central America helping modernize beef and pork slaughter floors and more in that region.

We travel to the other side of the world to talk with Kenichi Kato who is a Wagyu Beef Processing Expert in Japan.   We discuss about the antemortem practices followed by producers in Japan to produce high quality meat.   This video is sponsored by U.S. Meat Export Federation®, Ultra Source® and EFA - Meat Processing Tools®.