{"id":59,"date":"2008-05-20T07:15:16","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T15:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lacre.net\/wp\/?p=59"},"modified":"2018-08-26T16:48:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T00:48:13","slug":"top-meat-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lacre.net\/wp\/top-meat-companies\/59\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Meat Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lacre.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/beefslab1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-61\" title=\"red meat beef processing freezer cooler\" src=\"http:\/\/lacre.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/beefslab1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/span>Of the top 100 nationwide meat companies in terms of sales, the following are from California: Harris Ranch Beef Co; Superior Farms; United Food Group; Bridgford Foods; King Meats Inc; Central Valley Meat Co; White Apron Meats; Don Miguel Mexican Foods Inc; Custom Food Products Inc; and First Class Foods Inc.<\/p>\n<p>These companies deal in bacon, deli meat, fresh and frozen beef, ground beef, ham, hot dogs, pork, prepared foods and sausage.\u00a0 Also noteworthy, the following food companies are largest in the respective category.\u00a0 Oscar mayer &#8211; bacon, hot dogs and deli meat.\u00a0 Stouffer&#8217;s &#8211; prepared dinners.\u00a0 Johnsonville &#8211; breakfast sausage. Hormel Black Label &#8211; ham.<\/p>\n<p>Other highlights.\u00a0 Consumers continued to gravitate towards kosher dogs such as Hebrew National.\u00a0 Most ground beef goes to burgers.\u00a0 Japan is the #1 buyer of American pork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the top 100 nationwide meat companies in terms of sales, the following are from California: Harris Ranch Beef Co; Superior Farms; United Food Group; Bridgford Foods; King Meats Inc; Central Valley Meat Co; White Apron Meats; Don Miguel Mexican Foods Inc; Custom Food Products Inc; and First Class Foods Inc. These companies deal in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lacre.net\/wp\/top-meat-companies\/59\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Top Meat Companies<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[60,55,56,58,57,59],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-industry-cold-storage","tag-bacon","tag-beef","tag-meat","tag-pork","tag-poultry","tag-sausage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacre.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacre.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacre.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacre.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacre.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lacre.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacre.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacre.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacre.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}