Food Choices

SwineCast 0586, Consumers Continue To Seek Convenience

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mp3SwineCast 0586 Show Notes:
  • Conversation from Carthage Vet Service Conference with Ken Parnell of Parnell-Leaton Consulting.  What are consumers seeking at the meat case?

Abundance and Choice

I just returned from a foray into last minute food shopping for the Thanksgiving table and I am astonished at the exanding variety of choice almost everywhere in the fresh food category. In the turkey aisle there were probably 15 distinctly different choices this year from organic to frozen to fresh to injected to stuffed to stuffed with hen and duck. There was smoked turkey and turkey parts of every discription including tails in a separate pack. Yum Yum.

I started in the produce section and there were eight or nine different types of lettuce with a couple of varieties in little greenhouse boxes with roots still on them growing, five to seven types of mushrooms (some looked like the ones we were told to avoid when out hunting morrells as kids). Not just the white button ones and portabellos but all kinds of strange looking fungi.

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