Dr. H. Russell Cross, Head, Department of Animal Science at Texas A&M University, asks if it’s doing enough and suggests the next logical steps to advance the state-of-the-art.
Cargill plans to keep the approximately 250 full-time ground beef production jobs at the facility and make further investments to boost the plant's competitiveness.
The USDA says that the vast majority of states participating in the National School Lunch Program are ordering ground beef that does not contain lean finely textured beef.