Meat

The customs duties for livestock and red meat imports from the European Union have been zeroed for the state-run Meat and Milk Board (ESK) in a bid to decrease the negative effects of food prices rising by around 30 percent annually. 

Meat prices in Turkey have been steadily increasing in recent years due to supply problems and merchants' speculative sales moves, according to sector representatives. 

Meat prices in Turkey have begun spiraling upward, with the state-run Meat and Milk Board (ESK) being forced to import high amounts of meat amid promises of further purchases despite reaction from private businesses. 

The ESK launched a tender to buy 3,200 tons of frozen meat on Aug. 5, announcing that the purchases would continue until the Feast of Sacrifice on Sept. 24.

WhybinTBWA Australia advertising firm has created a campaign to promote the Sydney International Food Festival that can also be used as a guide for foodies in their travels abroad.

Army Park at Goudi has been transformed into a huge picnic site with tables, open-air spits and volunteers present to feed socially weak groups and ensure that these people can enjoy an Easter meal. The event, organized by the Ministry of Defense, offers 1,500 goats, 200 lambs, 100 kokoretsi (skewered intestines) to vulnerable groups who wouldn't otherwise be able to afford the Easter meal.

A fat cat in western Turkey has shed more than five kilograms in four months after its owner hospitalized the pet.

Named "Ta? Kafa" (Stone Head), referring to a Turkish expression for a dumb person, the five-year-old cat was recently taken to the animal treatment center of Nilüfer district in the Bursa province by its owner.

The cut value-added tax (VAT) on meat and meat products, cutting red tape and backing the food industry in order to promote the Romanian products in the foreign markets were some of the topics 'passionately' debated and examined by the Romanian authorities and business environment during a two-day seminar that ended on Thursday and that was totally dedicated to this sector conduct

UK food supplier who sold Bulgarian salami in a Dratford convenience store has been fined GBP 5,000 after it turned out that the product contained nearly 50% horse meat.

This is the first case of its kind in the UK since a horse meat scandal broke in January 2013.

Public opinion is outraged when the political system makes sure that certain targeted amendments that cater to specific interests are approved by the House without any scrutiny while at the same time being unable to handle the explosive issue of the new single property tax (ENFIA). Citizens justifiably feel powerless and that they are being treated like guinea pigs.

Sales of meat in Macedonia have dropped sharply since reports broke two weeks ago that infected meat had led to four people dying from listeriosis.