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The Meat Foundation today announced the recipients of its 2024-2025 scholarship awards. Twenty-one high-performing undergraduate and graduate students received a total of $110,000 to pursue degrees in animal, meat and food sciences at their respective universities.

The Food Industry Association and the Foundation for Meat and Poultry Research and Education, the foundation for the North American Meat Institute (Meat Institute), released their 15th-annual in-depth study of meat and poultry through shoppers’ eyes. The Power of Meat 2020 explores consumption trends, sales growth and consumer preferences and found demand for meat is accelerating with $50.5 billion in sales for 2019.

Research funded by the Beef Checkoff and administered by the Foundation was recently published in the Journal of Food Protection.  The abstract follows...

The Foundation’s Research Advisory Committee (RAC) sets research priorities and directs research activities, subject to approval by the Foundation Board of Directors.  The RAC is comprised of scientific leaders in industry, academia, and government who volunteer their time to serve in this critical capacity...

In 2019, the Foundation undertook comprehensive research agenda by conducting two requests for proposals (RFP).  In January, the Foundation Board of Directors approved three research projects to address these research priorities...