The Center of My Plate By
Lisa Keefe
Lisa Keefe is editor in chief of Meatingplace and Alt-Meat. Her blog lends insight into the news and issues of the day for the poultry and meat, and alt-meat, processing industries.
April 24, 2024 | Hybrid or die!
March 27, 2024 | 'The destruction of an industry'
February 28, 2024 | Maslow v. the adjectives
February 07, 2024 | To an unknown destination
August 16, 2023 | Good for the goose?
July 26, 2023 | Beware the margin-tinkerers
June 14, 2023 | It ain’t over ‘til it’s over
May 31, 2023 | Don't you believe it
May 03, 2023 | I should have known
March 22, 2023 | 'Plant-based'? Or face plant?
March 08, 2023 | How much money is too much money?
February 15, 2023 | Is the solution to the labor shortage really 14 years old?
January 04, 2023 | Instant karma
December 14, 2022 | Five trends for processors to watch in 2023
November 30, 2022 | The Blind Side
October 19, 2022 | 'OneTyson': A good move?
September 21, 2022 | The Chicago Way
August 24, 2022 | Who's wearing sheep's clothing?
August 10, 2022 | The butterfly flaps its wings
July 27, 2022 | Suitable for framing
June 01, 2022 | Yep, I went there
April 06, 2022 | The newest sheriff
March 09, 2022 | Can one word be the key?
February 09, 2022 | A blog about AOC, but not the one you're thinking of
January 12, 2022 | Make no mistake: It's 2022
November 17, 2021 | Where's your 'Backbone'?
October 20, 2021 | Inflate-gate
September 22, 2021 | What a cluster
August 26, 2021 | 'So I turned myself to face me'
August 04, 2021 | Welp, here we go again (updated)
May 05, 2021 | Further 'Food for Thought'
April 07, 2021 | Are you fighting the last war, or the current one?
March 10, 2021 | Leaving our communities
February 10, 2021 | Know what you don't know
December 30, 2020 | Take the 'L'
December 16, 2020 | I almost forgot about this blog
November 18, 2020 | Show me the vaccine!
October 21, 2020 | The "U" word
August 26, 2020 | Now, THAT's a mic drop
July 29, 2020 | Ask me 'why?' I say, 'Why not?'
July 01, 2020 | Where's my Christmas in July?
June 09, 2020 | A giddy sense of possibility
April 08, 2020 | Of rocks and hard places
March 11, 2020 | Meat's message may need new messengers
February 12, 2020 | I'm dropping the F-bomb!
January 15, 2020 | How’s your Maserati?
December 25, 2019 | Git yer hip boots on!
November 27, 2019 | Are you ready for Recession 2020?
November 13, 2019 | How is software like a spinalis dorsi?
October 30, 2019 | Little house on the prairie
October 16, 2019 | If it bleeds, it leads
October 02, 2019 | This issue is far from settled
September 18, 2019 | Girl Scouts taught me: 'Be prepared.'
September 04, 2019 | The deep roots of the industry's labor woes
August 21, 2019 | Are you leading, or protecting the status quo?
August 07, 2019 | What would you do?
July 24, 2019 | Is cell-cultured meat a 'perfect' solution after all?
July 10, 2019 | Meat, the People
June 26, 2019 | What was the point of that?
June 12, 2019 | POP goes the bubble!
May 29, 2019 | Ring, Ring --- It’s for you?
May 15, 2019 | Would you rather throw an interception or be sacked?
May 01, 2019 | Ditch the chocolate syrup, Ma
April 17, 2019 | Our daily reconstruction
April 03, 2019 | "Oooohhhh, oh Mexico ..... "
March 20, 2019 | Optimistic, pragmatic, catastrophic?
March 06, 2019 | Politics at the dinner table
February 20, 2019 | Why is a point-by-point scientific debate such a pie-in-the-sky idea?
February 06, 2019 | Happy birthday!
January 23, 2019 | Dishing on the alt-meat market
January 09, 2019 | Tell 'em what you told 'em
December 26, 2018 | Of cars, weather and meat
December 12, 2018 | Two years of not much, comin' right up!
November 28, 2018 | The theory of the cost of everything
November 14, 2018 | Quack, quack. It's a duck.
October 31, 2018 | Size matters
October 17, 2018 | 'You are so naive!'
October 03, 2018 | Expect the unexpected
September 19, 2018 | Oh no, he didn’t! No, really. He didn’t.
September 05, 2018 | When processors flout the law
August 08, 2018 | Meat consumption in a declining economy — ours
July 25, 2018 | How to become an economic 'first responder' for your community
July 04, 2018 | Everything but the kitchen
June 27, 2018 | A tale of two ICE raids
June 13, 2018 | Gaze into my crystal ball .... or better yet, don't.
May 30, 2018 | Meat snacks: In the best position to reclaim a health halo?
May 16, 2018 | What headline would YOU write?
April 18, 2018 | Have you been defeated, and you don't even know it?
April 04, 2018 | Who will take in the orphans?
March 21, 2018 | "A" for automation, or abandonment?
March 07, 2018 | 'Beef needs better friends.'
February 07, 2018 | The HSUS Hydra
January 24, 2018 | Promises, promises
December 13, 2017 | What does it mean to look for workers with 'grit'?
November 15, 2017 | Thanks, 2017
November 01, 2017 | Should I stay or should I go now?
October 18, 2017 | GIPSA, tramps and thieves
October 04, 2017 | Stormy weather
September 06, 2017 | Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition
August 30, 2017 | When a city that works is underwater
August 16, 2017 | 'I had a (poultry) farm in Africa ... '
August 02, 2017 | Reuniting with a family tradition
July 19, 2017 | Why BPI is saying, 'Thanks, Mickey'
June 29, 2017 | Unsettling settlement
June 07, 2017 | How does the media cover a hot potato? Badly, for the most part.
May 24, 2017 | Are meat's advocates focusing on the wrong audience?
May 10, 2017 | Call a legislative proposal a "Filthy Food Act" ...
April 26, 2017 | 'Just one word ... . Plastics.'
April 12, 2017 | Let's not turn trade relations with Japan into a pachinko parlor
March 29, 2017 | Call it ‘fitbait.” Or maybe “meatbait?”
March 15, 2017 | License to kill
March 01, 2017 | Whatever happened to civil discourse?
February 01, 2017 | Home Ec is back; is the meat industry ready?
January 18, 2017 | #SorryNotSorry
December 21, 2016 | If the grocery store of my childhood were an app ....
December 07, 2016 | Are you working in the space between 'truth' and 'honesty'?
October 12, 2016 | Entitlement
April 27, 2016 | Reaching your target with your message
March 30, 2016 | The tale of the killer steak
March 02, 2016 | The editor's blog — Salt and pepper
February 15, 2016 | The Center of My Plate: The editor's blog — The customer is always ...
February 01, 2016 | The Center of My Plate: The editor's blog — Fuel for thought
January 18, 2016 | The Center of My Plate: The editor's blog — Hormel's next acquisition
