Grocery stores are adding coffee bars, mouthwatering boulangeries, even sushi bars in hopes of wooing increasingly discerning consumers who want high-quality food without hours of preparation.

With April 1st just around the corner, it appears that the meat industry is playing us as April Fools by hiding its violations of humane and sanitary laws.

I don’t know if the Cattlemen’s Beef Board — whose slogan, “Beef, It’s What’s for Dinner,” has become part of the American pop culture lexicon — awards prizes for service to the industry, but if they do, Midwestern Meats in Mesa deserves the equivalent of the board’s Super Bowl trophy.

I don’t know if the Cattlemen’s Beef Board — whose slogan, “Beef, It’s What’s for Dinner,” has become part of the American pop culture lexicon — awards prizes for service to the industry, but if they do, Midwestern Meats in Mesa deserves the equivalent of the board’s Super Bowl trophy.

Who would have thunk? Meat and potatoes — basic staple of the American diet, now held responsible for our growing obesity epidemic.

Looking for something new to throw on the grill this Fourth of July? How about a sizzling Denver cut or a couple juicy slices of teres major?

NEW YORK - Raging Midwest floodwaters that swallowed crops and sent corn and soybean prices soaring are about to give consumers more grief at the grocery store.

Got a freezer?

BILLINGS, Mont. - For ranchers like Bill Donald, the resumption of beef trade with Japan, two years after "mad cow disease" turned up in this country, would be huge. Still, he’s not ready to sell his own cattle to Japan, and he’s not alone.

The arguments of Arizona’s farmers and ranchers against Proposition 204 on the Nov. 7 ballot appeal strongly to the libertarian nature of the Tribune Editorial Board.

An undercover investigator for Mercy for Animals notes that nothing could prepare him for what he saw during a ten-week undercover investigation in a pig factory farm.

As Arizona celebrates the Pentagon’s decision to base three F-35 fighter squadrons at Luke Air Force Base, U.S. Sen. John McCain warned Thursday that potential defense spending cuts could cost thousands of jobs and $3 billion to the state’s economy.

Last week, food safety officials in United Kingdom, France, and Sweden found traces of horse meat in ground beef sold across Europe. Massive recalls and lawsuits are ensuing.

By Judy A. Toth, contributing columnist

WAITSFIELD, Vt. (AP) — Nearly 30 years ago, a handful of enterprising Vermonters realized they could do more with milk than just sell it. And with a little help from the state, they became pioneers in what quickly blossomed into the now behemoth artisanal cheese movement.

One sick cow isn’t keeping East Valley meat lovers from savoring steaks and burgers.

On this date in 1832, William Kirkland, who is said to have been the man who raised the first American flag in Tucson in 1855, was born.

ROME — The U.N. has new weapons to fight hunger, boost nutrition and reduce pollution, and they might be crawling or flying near you right now: edible insects.

BURNSVILLE, Minn. - Dan Hogan admitted he had only a vague idea of what he was doing as he poked through the beef case, looking for dinner.

NEW YORK - Kosher meat, always more expensive than regular beef and poultry, may grow even pricier this summer after the arrests of nearly half the work force in an immigration raid at the nation’s largest kosher meat processor.

Deb Aksamit grew up surrounded by the aroma of sizzling, top-quality meat. Her family’s history was rooted in the meat business. She even learned how to cut her own meat.

A big Valley newspaper's editorial board expressed the usual disinformation and pretense of illegal immigration supporters in a recent editorial.