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Tag archive for ‘meat’

• He’s a Cowboy on the Steppes

  The title is for all you Jimmy Buffet fans. Once again, for some reason, the program to bring US and Canadian beef cattle, as well as expertise, to Kazakhstan is hitting the press. The Moscow Times via Reuters has a nice article up about Michael Slattery, a cowboy from Nebraska, currently working at a cattle […]

  7/02/11 • (Comments Off on He’s a Cowboy on the Steppes)

• Protein Kills the Colon

  Bad news for meat lovers, which is to say the entire population of Kazakhstan. According to British researchers, protein-heavy diets cause colon cancer. and damage substances in the body that protect against tumors. Of course, scientists always go back and forth about what makes a good or bad diet, but it might not be a […]

  4/08/11 • (Comments Off on Protein Kills the Colon)

• Steppe Diet

  Not to suddenly harp on food, but I had an interesting conversation the other day with a group of colleagues. I mentioned in an earlier post that one stereotype here of the US is that our meat does not taste good (I put this down to differences in what constitutes properly cooked meat). Another is […]

  3/10/11 • (6)

• More About Meat and Food

  Having just posted on importing cattle to solve some of the problems of the meat industry, I was perhaps particularly attentive to meat prices today at the supermarket. I was shocked that any kind of butchered meat, including stir-fry strips/beef stroganoff, gulash/stew meat, and steaks, now cost around 1800 tenge per kilogram (US$ 5.64 per […]

  2/26/11 • (Comments Off on More About Meat and Food)

• US Meat Will Have to Do

  I’ve been enjoying reading the news about a new program to import US and Canadian beef cattle to Kazakhstan in order to improve the stock here. One of the common stereotypes in Kazakhstan about the US is that American meat tastes awful while Kazakhstan meat is very good. Now I have a theory on this: […]

  2/24/11 • (3)