Retailers refrigerated the boxes until needed, then opened the package and cut the meat into portions for sale.

CNN: How to buy the best beef

In a statement the company said formal, 90-day consultation had started with the workforce, adding that the cut meat sector had become "highly competitive" in the past year.

BBC: Kerry Foods factory in Durham

But the researchers stressed there was no need for young girls to cut meat out of their diet as those with the highest meat consumption were eating a lot.

BBC: High meat diet 'linked to early periods'

The cost estimate fell in part because the agency cut a proposed requirement for schools to provide meat or a meat substitute in the government-subsidized breakfast program, according to agency Undersecretary Kevin Concannon.

WSJ: School Lunches to Become Healthier

Place the center cut back into the braising liquid and continue to cook until the meat can be easily shredded with a fork.

NPR: Salpicon Recipe

The trick was to cut small quantities of meat into paper-thin slices, season them with condiments, preserves, and spices, add whatever vegetables you could grow or barter, and keep adding until you arrived at a dish so tasty that you forgot how little meat was in it.

NEWYORKER: A Fork of One��s Own

The old stone slabs which traders used to cut and sell meat and other produce, like cloth, have been preserved.

BBC: A cultural tour of Bruges

President Obama often claims he wants to cut the budget smartly, using a "scalpel" not a meat axe, machete, cleaver or chainsaw, to list a few of his favorite metaphors.

WSJ: Review & Outlook: About That 'Scalpel' . . .

Butchers are dealers in carrion: the meat you buy from them is already rotting, or it would be too stiff to cut into steaks.

ECONOMIST: Dust and decay

Red meat isn't the healthiest thing you can put into your body, so why not cut down?

FORBES: Green Greens versus Red Greens